The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Količina 118A. Constable, 1863 |
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Stran 8
... believe . He says the Government required the people of Scotland to frequent the parish church , not in testimony of their faith , but as a proof of their peaceable disposition and submission to the law of the land ; and hence ...
... believe . He says the Government required the people of Scotland to frequent the parish church , not in testimony of their faith , but as a proof of their peaceable disposition and submission to the law of the land ; and hence ...
Stran 22
... believe that Palmer was executed at Stafford because a gentleman living in Edinburgh had not entered the event in his diary ? But Mr. Napier has another negative witness - Sir George Mackenzie , of Rosehaugh , the Lord Advocate of ...
... believe that Palmer was executed at Stafford because a gentleman living in Edinburgh had not entered the event in his diary ? But Mr. Napier has another negative witness - Sir George Mackenzie , of Rosehaugh , the Lord Advocate of ...
Stran 27
... believe that in such a state paper there would have been such a reference unless the fact alluded to had been well known ? The next link in our chain of evidence is furnished by a very rare pamphlet , entitled A Short Memorial of the ...
... believe that in such a state paper there would have been such a reference unless the fact alluded to had been well known ? The next link in our chain of evidence is furnished by a very rare pamphlet , entitled A Short Memorial of the ...
Stran 33
... believe anything so dreadful . But this negative evidence can have no weight against positive evidence to the contrary , and again we repeat that till Mr. Napier arose , no writer was found so reckless as to dispute the fact . And how ...
... believe anything so dreadful . But this negative evidence can have no weight against positive evidence to the contrary , and again we repeat that till Mr. Napier arose , no writer was found so reckless as to dispute the fact . And how ...
Stran 34
... believe this . Claverhouse was connected with the Wigton Martyrdom only through his brother , who acted as his substitute , and was one of the royal commissioners who condemned the women . His work as a ' persecutor of the saints ' was ...
... believe this . Claverhouse was connected with the Wigton Martyrdom only through his brother , who acted as his substitute , and was one of the royal commissioners who condemned the women . His work as a ' persecutor of the saints ' was ...
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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.