The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Količina 118A. Constable, 1863 |
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Stran 7
... character of the Scotch to suppose that they could be thus oppressed and trampled on without being indignant . Their first outbreak against their oppressors took its rise in Galloway , from pity for a poor man who was being maltreated ...
... character of the Scotch to suppose that they could be thus oppressed and trampled on without being indignant . Their first outbreak against their oppressors took its rise in Galloway , from pity for a poor man who was being maltreated ...
Stran 12
... character of Claverhouse , and of the ruthless government which he served . What a melancholy picture do we get a glimpse of in these letters , and only a glimpse ; whole districts fleeing from their houses on the approach of the man ...
... character of Claverhouse , and of the ruthless government which he served . What a melancholy picture do we get a glimpse of in these letters , and only a glimpse ; whole districts fleeing from their houses on the approach of the man ...
Stran 13
... character : ' I was going to have sent in the other prisoners ; but amongst them there is one Mr. Francis Irvine , an old and infirm man , who is extremely troubled with the gravel ; so that I will be forced to delay for five or six ...
... character : ' I was going to have sent in the other prisoners ; but amongst them there is one Mr. Francis Irvine , an old and infirm man , who is extremely troubled with the gravel ; so that I will be forced to delay for five or six ...
Stran 36
... character . He was not the monster which the alarmed imagination of the Scotch peasantry pictured him to be . Bullets did not rebound harm- less from his body , nor was the charger which 36 July , Napier's Memorials of Claverhouse .
... character . He was not the monster which the alarmed imagination of the Scotch peasantry pictured him to be . Bullets did not rebound harm- less from his body , nor was the charger which 36 July , Napier's Memorials of Claverhouse .
Stran 40
... character , and the following is the result . First and chief of all evidence of the existence of the Druids , is the celebrated passage in Cæsar . So freshly is it associated with schoolboy days and ways , that to bid the experienced ...
... character , and the following is the result . First and chief of all evidence of the existence of the Druids , is the celebrated passage in Cæsar . So freshly is it associated with schoolboy days and ways , that to bid the experienced ...
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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.