The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Količina 118A. Constable, 1863 |
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... says the biographer , was performed in an evil ' hour for himself and his native monarchs . Had it not been for his luckless aid , the persecutor of his family , the evil genius of the unfortunate James , the fiend of Glencoe , might ...
... says the biographer , was performed in an evil ' hour for himself and his native monarchs . Had it not been for his luckless aid , the persecutor of his family , the evil genius of the unfortunate James , the fiend of Glencoe , might ...
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... says that a hue and cry went out over all the country for ministers ; but at a period when the educated class was comparatively small , qualified ministers could not easily be found ; and in the hurry of filling so many pulpits , many ...
... says that a hue and cry went out over all the country for ministers ; but at a period when the educated class was comparatively small , qualified ministers could not easily be found ; and in the hurry of filling so many pulpits , many ...
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... says , a mere piece of legislative threatening - never meant to be carried into execution - a brutum fulmen . It is strange to hear of the Parliament being in sport , erecting bugbears to frighten the people , passing Acts which they ...
... says , a mere piece of legislative threatening - never meant to be carried into execution - a brutum fulmen . It is strange to hear of the Parliament being in sport , erecting bugbears to frighten the people , passing Acts which they ...
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... say all he can in condemnation of these . He has devoted a long chapter to the subject , but , notwithstanding the great prolixity and virulence of his abuse , it is very difficult to understand what he would have us to believe . He says ...
... say all he can in condemnation of these . He has devoted a long chapter to the subject , but , notwithstanding the great prolixity and virulence of his abuse , it is very difficult to understand what he would have us to believe . He says ...
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... says , were a great attraction to the sex , more especially as ladies of distinction were placed on high chairs in front of the crowd , which , he gravely observes , were just towering thrones of female turbulence , folly and vanity ...
... says , were a great attraction to the sex , more especially as ladies of distinction were placed on high chairs in front of the crowd , which , he gravely observes , were just towering thrones of female turbulence , folly and vanity ...
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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.