The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volumen88Archibald Constable and Company, 1821 |
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... law , Gaspar Poussin , Claude Lorraine , and Charles Le Brun , were frequently his compa- nions in his walks , and imbibed , from his conversation , the noblest and pu- rest maxims both in morals and in art , and in the true method of ...
... law , Gaspar Poussin , Claude Lorraine , and Charles Le Brun , were frequently his compa- nions in his walks , and imbibed , from his conversation , the noblest and pu- rest maxims both in morals and in art , and in the true method of ...
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... laws . It will be said , indeed , that they require no amendment ; that they are already perfect . This , in the nature of things , is impossible . Human affairs are always changing , and they require new laws adapted to the new ...
... laws . It will be said , indeed , that they require no amendment ; that they are already perfect . This , in the nature of things , is impossible . Human affairs are always changing , and they require new laws adapted to the new ...
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... laws , so far as they respect foreign trade , are founded on principles the most narrow and invidious . In many cases national animosity is at the bot- tom of those hurtful regulations , which obstruct the importation of foreigr ...
... laws , so far as they respect foreign trade , are founded on principles the most narrow and invidious . In many cases national animosity is at the bot- tom of those hurtful regulations , which obstruct the importation of foreigr ...
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... laws in cases of forgery . This is surely a subject which it well befits the wis- dom of Parliament to entertain . Hu- manity is shocked by the revolting frequency of executions for this crime . It is essential , therefore , that some ...
... laws in cases of forgery . This is surely a subject which it well befits the wis- dom of Parliament to entertain . Hu- manity is shocked by the revolting frequency of executions for this crime . It is essential , therefore , that some ...
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... laws , however severe and bloody , will ex- tirpate , or even materially check the evil . So far from this , it may ... laws , and for altering such parts of the system as are plainly hurtful and inapplicable to the present state of our ...
... laws , however severe and bloody , will ex- tirpate , or even materially check the evil . So far from this , it may ... laws , and for altering such parts of the system as are plainly hurtful and inapplicable to the present state of our ...
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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.