The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen 23A. Constable, 1814 |
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... considerable presumption against the fitness of such institutions to maintain the principles of freedom under a different constitution ; nor can the fact be justly regarded as a new example of their ineffi- ciency for that purpose . In ...
... considerable presumption against the fitness of such institutions to maintain the principles of freedom under a different constitution ; nor can the fact be justly regarded as a new example of their ineffi- ciency for that purpose . In ...
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... considerable degree against both , there seems to exist a reasonable security in the small numbers and general weakness of that part of the old aristocracy which has survived to reclaim its privileges . One of the bases of the new ...
... considerable degree against both , there seems to exist a reasonable security in the small numbers and general weakness of that part of the old aristocracy which has survived to reclaim its privileges . One of the bases of the new ...
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... considerably tarnished by those stipulations for na- tional liberty , which form to other eyes their most glorious and happy feature . We do not say this invidiously , nor out of any spirit of faction : But the fact is unquestionable ...
... considerably tarnished by those stipulations for na- tional liberty , which form to other eyes their most glorious and happy feature . We do not say this invidiously , nor out of any spirit of faction : But the fact is unquestionable ...
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... considerable portion of information and amusement ; and if the more unassuming form of publication , adopted by Mr Semple and a few others , had been followed , we should have had scarcely any occasion to preface an account of the book ...
... considerable portion of information and amusement ; and if the more unassuming form of publication , adopted by Mr Semple and a few others , had been followed , we should have had scarcely any occasion to preface an account of the book ...
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... considerable , though daily decreasing ; and violent feuds between districts , for a length of time , are not ... considerably promote our own interests . In opposition to the political doctrine of Mr Galt , already noticed , we beg to ...
... considerable , though daily decreasing ; and violent feuds between districts , for a length of time , are not ... considerably promote our own interests . In opposition to the political doctrine of Mr Galt , already noticed , we beg to ...
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Página 203 - Sun-burnt his cheek, his forehead high and pale The sable curls in wild profusion veil; And oft perforce his rising lip reveals The haughtier thought it curbs, but scarce conceals Though smooth his voice, and calm his general mien Still seems there something he would not have seen His features...
Página 426 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 425 - Yet a few years, we think, and all that now bless, or all that now convulse humanity, will also have perished. The mightiest pageantry of life will pass, the loudest notes of triumph or of conquest will be silent in the grave; — the wicked, wherever active, " will cease from troubling," and the weary, wherever suffering,
Página 204 - There was a laughing Devil in his sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell!
Página 211 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Página 211 - Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course and own the hues of heaven; Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
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