The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 112A. Constable, 1860 |
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Seite 203 - It is now become so much the fashion to publish letters, that in order to avoid it, I put as little into mine as I can.
Seite 442 - And we do here declare that it is far from our purpose or desire to let loose the golden reins of discipline and government in the Church, to leave private persons or particular congregations to take up what form of Divine Service they please, for we hold it requisite that there should be throughout the whole realm a conformity to that order which the laws enjoin according to the Word of God.
Seite 207 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Seite 509 - I have sometimes half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying, that there is only a step between his state who deeply indulges in imaginative meditation, and insanity...
Seite 501 - She even acquired by new efforts, the art of spelling, reading, writing. and calculating, and gradually became acquainted with the persons and objects around, like a being for the first time brought into the world. In these exercises, she made considerable proficiency. But after a few months, another fit of somnolency invaded her. On rousing from it, she found herself restored to the state she was in before the first paroxysm, but was wholly ignorant of every event and occurrence that had befallen...
Seite 489 - Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice ?
Seite 502 - ... time or means to become expert. During four years and upwards she underwent periodical transitions from one of these states to the other.
Seite 444 - Parliament, and conferring together upon the state of affairs, the other told him, [Hyde,] and said, "that they must now be of another temper than they were the last Parliament; that they must not only sweep the house clean below, but must pull down all the cobwebs which hung in the top and corners, that they might not breed dust and so make a foul house hereafter; that they had now an opportunity to make their country happy, by removing all grievances and pulling up the causes of them by the roots,...
Seite 509 - I was not always assured of my identity or even existence, for I sometimes found it necessary to shout aloud to be sure that I lived ; and I was in the habit very often at night of taking down a volume, and looking into it for my name, to be convinced, that I had not been dreaming of myself.
Seite 497 - C and looked at the word cow, and kept his finger and eye fixed upon the word until he had finished the sentence. He could pronounce the word cow in its proper place so long as he had his eye fixed upon the written letters ; but the moment he shut the book it passed out of his memory, although he recollected its initial, and could refer to it when necessary. Sometimes cerebral mischief is indicated by the mere transposition of letters. A gentleman on recovering from an attack of paralysis, for example,...