The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Količina 118A. Constable, 1863 |
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Stran 18
... nature of the oath , for refusing which they were to die . * They were now thrown into the gaol of Wigton to await their doom . When there the heroic fortitude which had sustained them at their trial forsook them , or per- haps some ...
... nature of the oath , for refusing which they were to die . * They were now thrown into the gaol of Wigton to await their doom . When there the heroic fortitude which had sustained them at their trial forsook them , or per- haps some ...
Stran 32
... nature the widow of three score and ten must soon have dis- appeared from the world ; but Margaret Wilson , the maiden of eighteen or twenty in 1685 , would be a woman of only forty- five in 1711 ; and thus , if not really drowned ...
... nature the widow of three score and ten must soon have dis- appeared from the world ; but Margaret Wilson , the maiden of eighteen or twenty in 1685 , would be a woman of only forty- five in 1711 ; and thus , if not really drowned ...
Stran 34
... nature rather fitted for the stews than the church . ' De Foe is spoken of asa virulent collector of calumnious fables ; ' but his choicest epithets are reserved for Wodrow , one of the worthiest of men . He is an idiot , ' a low ...
... nature rather fitted for the stews than the church . ' De Foe is spoken of asa virulent collector of calumnious fables ; ' but his choicest epithets are reserved for Wodrow , one of the worthiest of men . He is an idiot , ' a low ...
Stran 48
... nature , in a plainer method and in a more compendious form than he communicated them to any other of his disciples . This is the account of the Greeks , but judging from what we have read just now from the works of their authors , I ...
... nature , in a plainer method and in a more compendious form than he communicated them to any other of his disciples . This is the account of the Greeks , but judging from what we have read just now from the works of their authors , I ...
Stran 49
... natural to his position , and becoming in a distinguished Druid , it is well ; and we are not inclined to debate the matter . In the attempt , however , to discover whether there is anywhere in literature a passage identifying an actual ...
... natural to his position , and becoming in a distinguished Druid , it is well ; and we are not inclined to debate the matter . In the attempt , however , to discover whether there is anywhere in literature a passage identifying an actual ...
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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.