The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Svazek 66A. Constable, 1838 |
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... Poor . Godwin ! I was passing his tomb the other day in Cripplegate Church- yard . There are some verses upon it , written by Miss , which if I thought good enough I would send you . He was one of those who would have hailed your return ...
... Poor . Godwin ! I was passing his tomb the other day in Cripplegate Church- yard . There are some verses upon it , written by Miss , which if I thought good enough I would send you . He was one of those who would have hailed your return ...
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... poor Lloyd , —a cure as marvellous and complete as the best authenticated case of metallic tractors . We have never been surprised at what men of business naturally think the dis- proportioned importance attached to theatrical ...
... poor Lloyd , —a cure as marvellous and complete as the best authenticated case of metallic tractors . We have never been surprised at what men of business naturally think the dis- proportioned importance attached to theatrical ...
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... -all told ten times over , -if his friend had but profited by the lesson . I am wedded , Coleridge , to the fortunes of my sister and my poor old father . O ! my friend , I think 16 Oct. Lamb's Life and Correspondence .
... -all told ten times over , -if his friend had but profited by the lesson . I am wedded , Coleridge , to the fortunes of my sister and my poor old father . O ! my friend , I think 16 Oct. Lamb's Life and Correspondence .
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... poor ' Poor Norris has been lying dying for now almost a week ; such is the penalty we pay for having enjoyed a strong constitution ! Whether he knew me or not , I know not ; or whether he saw me through his glazed eyes ; but the group ...
... poor ' Poor Norris has been lying dying for now almost a week ; such is the penalty we pay for having enjoyed a strong constitution ! Whether he knew me or not , I know not ; or whether he saw me through his glazed eyes ; but the group ...
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... poor victims of the law , at one time of their life , made as sure of never being hanged as I , in my own presumption , am ready , too ready , to do myself . What are we better than they ? Do we come into the world with different necks ...
... poor victims of the law , at one time of their life , made as sure of never being hanged as I , in my own presumption , am ready , too ready , to do myself . What are we better than they ? Do we come into the world with different necks ...
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Strana 169 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Strana 185 - Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and...
Strana 21 - I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments, as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
Strana 163 - The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them.
Strana 172 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Strana 21 - The wonder of these sights impels me into night-walks about her crowded streets, and I often shed tears in the motley Strand from fulness of joy at so much life. — All these emotions must be strange to you; so are your rural emotions to me. But consider, what must I have been doing all my life, not to have lent great portions of my heart with usury to such scenes?
Strana 189 - Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Strana 172 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Strana 16 - ... being in general readers of plays, were obliged to attend the more, and did attend, to what was going on on the stage, because a word lost would have been a chasm which it was impossible for them to fill up. With such reflections we consoled our pride then ; and I appeal to you whether as a woman I met generally with less attention and accommodation than I have done since in more expensive situations in the house.
Strana 184 - He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed ; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed.