The North British Review, Volúmenes42-43Leonard Scott & Company, 1865 |
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... Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh had given him a letter of intro- duction to a local magnate . The production of this brought immediate security and hos- pitality , with the question , Why the teil he had used that tamned Covernment ...
... Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh had given him a letter of intro- duction to a local magnate . The production of this brought immediate security and hos- pitality , with the question , Why the teil he had used that tamned Covernment ...
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... writer of romance might have delighted to feign . I had , indeed , no trees to whisper over my head , but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet . The day was calm , the air soft , and all was rudeness , silence , and solitude . Before me ...
... writer of romance might have delighted to feign . I had , indeed , no trees to whisper over my head , but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet . The day was calm , the air soft , and all was rudeness , silence , and solitude . Before me ...
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... writing from the fastnesses of his own mountains , thus gal- lantly maintains the ancient renown of his country for shipbuilding , without having his authorities at hand : " There was a ship of war built in Scot- land , in the minority ...
... writing from the fastnesses of his own mountains , thus gal- lantly maintains the ancient renown of his country for shipbuilding , without having his authorities at hand : " There was a ship of war built in Scot- land , in the minority ...
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... writing were it some quarter of a century nearer us . There are some conven- tionalisms of a past style in it , not ... writer of this sketch , that it might well reward the trouble and expense of the innkeepers of Callander , or of the ...
... writing were it some quarter of a century nearer us . There are some conven- tionalisms of a past style in it , not ... writer of this sketch , that it might well reward the trouble and expense of the innkeepers of Callander , or of the ...
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... writers , over those even of the Augustan age . The best poems of Ca- tullus are far superior in delicacy and tender- ness to any of Martial's ; and if the address to Sirmio is to be called an epigram , Catullus is about the first ...
... writers , over those even of the Augustan age . The best poems of Ca- tullus are far superior in delicacy and tender- ness to any of Martial's ; and if the address to Sirmio is to be called an epigram , Catullus is about the first ...
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Página 151 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Página 152 - Our observation employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge from whence all the ideas we have or can naturally have do spring.
Página 148 - I felt thee ! — on that sea-cliff's verge, Whose pines, scarce travelled by the breeze above, Had made one murmur with the distant surge ! Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O Liberty ! my spirit felt thee there.
Página 22 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 230 - And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
Página 149 - Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Página 51 - Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.
Página 24 - We have but faith: we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow.
Página 219 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
Página 97 - It was foretold, that to him should the gathering of the people be ; and that God would give him the Heathen for his inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for his possession, which was punctually fulfilled by the wonderful success of the gospel, and its universal propagation throughout the world.