The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Količina 118A. Constable, 1863 |
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Stran 41
... ancient monu- ments which they have assumed to be relics of Druidical temples and altars . As some have thus liberally supplied the missing details to Cæsar's outline , it is equally competent to others to take this outline to pieces ...
... ancient monu- ments which they have assumed to be relics of Druidical temples and altars . As some have thus liberally supplied the missing details to Cæsar's outline , it is equally competent to others to take this outline to pieces ...
Stran 43
... ancient and obdurate institution , pushing its origin back into unknown antiquity , and living on from century to century inscrutable and invulnerable . On the other hand , if Cæsar , as is likely enough , had no sufficient warrant for ...
... ancient and obdurate institution , pushing its origin back into unknown antiquity , and living on from century to century inscrutable and invulnerable . On the other hand , if Cæsar , as is likely enough , had no sufficient warrant for ...
Stran 44
... ancient world . But Pliny has something to say about the Druids as appropriate to the medicinal virtues of animals , and so their name again occurs in conjunction with dragons and basilisks , as the owners of a great medicine , called ...
... ancient world . But Pliny has something to say about the Druids as appropriate to the medicinal virtues of animals , and so their name again occurs in conjunction with dragons and basilisks , as the owners of a great medicine , called ...
Stran 45
... ancient Europe a spiritual hierarchy ruled over countries pretty nearly as extensive as those which now adhere to the See of Rome , -a hierarchy not merely rivalling the civil power , but exercising an established supremacy over it ...
... ancient Europe a spiritual hierarchy ruled over countries pretty nearly as extensive as those which now adhere to the See of Rome , -a hierarchy not merely rivalling the civil power , but exercising an established supremacy over it ...
Stran 48
... ancient author , though in reading some modern books of eminence , one might imagine that the members of the order were nume- rous , eminent , and well known to the public in general . Mr. Godfrey Higgins , in the full tide of his ...
... ancient author , though in reading some modern books of eminence , one might imagine that the members of the order were nume- rous , eminent , and well known to the public in general . Mr. Godfrey Higgins , in the full tide of his ...
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Abbeville already ancient antiquity appears artists Aurignac Austin Australian authority bishop Bolingbroke cadastral century character Chinchona Church colony common connexion constitution cotton CXVIII deposits distinction districts doubt Druids duties ecclesiastical England English established evidence exhibit existing fact favour flint France French geological George George III Gothic Government Gregorovius House important India interest judiciary law King labour land Leonine City less Lord Louis Blanc Lyell ment miles modern Moreton Bay nature never object opinion original Paris Parliament period persons Phillimore political portion position possession present principles probably purpose Queensland question reader remarkable result Revolution river Roman Rome Royal Academy scale Scotland ships Sir Charles Lyell Sir George Lewis South Wales species squatters success supposed survey tion Totila traced truth Walpole whole Wigton writers
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Stran 418 - The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the tories ; and the tories echoed every clap, to shew that the satire was unfelt.
Stran 413 - I think Mr. St. John the greatest - -young man I ever knew; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners; generous, and a despiser of money.
Stran 430 - Let us suppose in this, or in some other unfortunate country, an anti-minister, who thinks himself a person of so great and extensive parts, and of so many eminent qualifications, that he looks upon himself as the only person in the kingdom capable to conduct the public affairs of the nation...
Stran 429 - I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower.
Stran 342 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Stran 406 - But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.
Stran 432 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Stran 400 - The Life of Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Secretary of State in the reign of Queen Anne. By Thomas Macknight, author of the " History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke.
Stran 413 - I am thinking what a veneration we used to have for Sir William Temple because he might have been Secretary of State at fifty ; and here is a young fellow hardly thirty in that employment.
Stran 31 - I will not; I am one of Christ's children; let me go :' And then they returned her into the water, where she finished her warfare ; being a virgin martyr of eighteen years of age, suffering death for her refusing to swear the oath of abjuration, and hear the curats.