The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volumen88Archibald Constable and Company, 1821 |
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... never sacrifice positive knowledge and re- flection to the acquisition of a variety of signs . We should begin to acquire no- tions and that language which is the most necessary for us to converse in . When I was examined , in order to ...
... never sacrifice positive knowledge and re- flection to the acquisition of a variety of signs . We should begin to acquire no- tions and that language which is the most necessary for us to converse in . When I was examined , in order to ...
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... never more to return , he was tasked , with- out measure and without mercy , to the performance of works that he ab- horred , and forced to labour , not as his own feelings and judgment , but as the whim and wanton caprice of affected ...
... never more to return , he was tasked , with- out measure and without mercy , to the performance of works that he ab- horred , and forced to labour , not as his own feelings and judgment , but as the whim and wanton caprice of affected ...
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... never fail in careful endeavours to give my figures expressions conforma- ble to what they are intended to re- present ; but I neither can , nor ought to imagine Christ in any situation whatever with the face of a whining Methodist , or ...
... never fail in careful endeavours to give my figures expressions conforma- ble to what they are intended to re- present ; but I neither can , nor ought to imagine Christ in any situation whatever with the face of a whining Methodist , or ...
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... never go to Paris , " said he , " to be employed as a private man , though my works should be covered with gold for it . " This , of course , put a final period to the nego- ciation , but he continued to enjoy from Louis XIV . the ...
... never go to Paris , " said he , " to be employed as a private man , though my works should be covered with gold for it . " This , of course , put a final period to the nego- ciation , but he continued to enjoy from Louis XIV . the ...
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... Never private man , perhaps , in a foreign country was so deeply and sincerely lamented . He was formed by nature to secure the esteem and to knit together the hearts of those around them . His learning had no tinge of pedantry , and ...
... Never private man , perhaps , in a foreign country was so deeply and sincerely lamented . He was formed by nature to secure the esteem and to knit together the hearts of those around them . His learning had no tinge of pedantry , and ...
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Página 56 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Página 156 - He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
Página 502 - Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still?
Página 208 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Página 207 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Página 516 - A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest. What is title ? what is treasure ? What is reputation's care ? If we lead a life of pleasure, 'Tis no matter, how or where ! A fig, &c.
Página 364 - My dear, I will not let you come till the end of May, or beginning of June, because, before that time my green-house will not be ready to receive us, and it is the only pleasant room belonging to us. When the plants go out, we go in. I line it with mats, and spread the floor with mats ; and there you shall sit, with a bed of mignonette at your side, and a hedge of honeysuckles, roses, and jasmine ; and I will make you a bouquet of myrtle every day.
Página 56 - Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub, Disporting, till the amorous bird of night Sung spousal, and bid haste the evening star, On his hill-top, to light the bridal lamp.
Página 364 - You boast indeed of being obliged to no other creature, but of drawing and spinning out all from yourself; that is to say, if we may judge of the liquor in the vessel by what issues out, you possess a good plentiful store of dirt and poison in your breast...
Página 303 - ... written by incoherent parcels ; and, after long intervals of neglect, resumed again, as my humour or occasions permitted ; and "at last, in a retirement, where an attendance on my health gave me leisure, it was brought into that order thou now seest it.