The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Količina 118A. Constable, 1863 |
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Stran 22
... once alludes to this drowning of women in the Solway . The author of the Memorials must have been hard pushed for an argument when he resorted to this one . Wigton was at that period so remote from Edinburgh , and communication so ...
... once alludes to this drowning of women in the Solway . The author of the Memorials must have been hard pushed for an argument when he resorted to this one . Wigton was at that period so remote from Edinburgh , and communication so ...
Stran 35
... once glorious and bloodless ensued . The horse whom Claverhouse had led into England , after the flight of the monarch whom they had come to serve , made a gallant though foolish attempt to return to Scotland , but Claverhouse was not ...
... once glorious and bloodless ensued . The horse whom Claverhouse had led into England , after the flight of the monarch whom they had come to serve , made a gallant though foolish attempt to return to Scotland , but Claverhouse was not ...
Stran 67
... once threw off the Roman laws , institutions , language , and social usages , but that they also at once adopted , and in its fullest developement , that social code of chivalry which did not dawn upon the rest of Europe until some ...
... once threw off the Roman laws , institutions , language , and social usages , but that they also at once adopted , and in its fullest developement , that social code of chivalry which did not dawn upon the rest of Europe until some ...
Stran 70
... once to the heart of chivalrous Europe , and spread over the literature of almost every Christian land a spirit which had its origin in Wales , cannot be doubted . Whoever desires to behold the full efficiency of this influence ...
... once to the heart of chivalrous Europe , and spread over the literature of almost every Christian land a spirit which had its origin in Wales , cannot be doubted . Whoever desires to behold the full efficiency of this influence ...
Stran 75
... once introduced was rendered certain and lasting . The uncouth splendours of Egyptian art were no temptation to the men who built and adorned the Parthenon ; and the beauties of 1863 . 75 Modern Styles of Architecture .
... once introduced was rendered certain and lasting . The uncouth splendours of Egyptian art were no temptation to the men who built and adorned the Parthenon ; and the beauties of 1863 . 75 Modern Styles of Architecture .
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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.