The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Svazek 66A. Constable, 1838 |
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... Truths and Fictions of the Middle Ages . The Merchant and the Friar . By Sir Francis Palgrave , K.H. , Keeper of the Re- cords of the Treasury of Her Majesty's Exchequer , XI . 1. Report of the Select Committee appointed to enquire into ...
... Truths and Fictions of the Middle Ages . The Merchant and the Friar . By Sir Francis Palgrave , K.H. , Keeper of the Re- cords of the Treasury of Her Majesty's Exchequer , XI . 1. Report of the Select Committee appointed to enquire into ...
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... truth is , that though we may suppose our ancestors to have conversed as much and as well as we do , they certainly corresponded less and worse : idle letters are modern luxuries ; the last and kindliest fruits of our present ...
... truth is , that though we may suppose our ancestors to have conversed as much and as well as we do , they certainly corresponded less and worse : idle letters are modern luxuries ; the last and kindliest fruits of our present ...
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... truth than any fiction , after we are ten years old , can possibly command . How varied too ! -The conversation of no two persons is exactly alike . No more will be their letters , upon the supposition that their letters are what we ...
... truth than any fiction , after we are ten years old , can possibly command . How varied too ! -The conversation of no two persons is exactly alike . No more will be their letters , upon the supposition that their letters are what we ...
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... truth and falsehood ; for they spring up and flow on so close together , that it is impossible to distinguish them . . . His devotion to the real is every where manifest . Matter of fact was with him , in morals as well as literature ...
... truth and falsehood ; for they spring up and flow on so close together , that it is impossible to distinguish them . . . His devotion to the real is every where manifest . Matter of fact was with him , in morals as well as literature ...
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... truths ' I have sent you in this letter will become lies before they reach you , and some of the lies ( which I have mixed for variety's sake , and to exercice your judgment in the finding of them out ) , may be turned into sad ...
... truths ' I have sent you in this letter will become lies before they reach you , and some of the lies ( which I have mixed for variety's sake , and to exercice your judgment in the finding of them out ) , may be turned into sad ...
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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.