The Edinburgh Monthly Review, Band 5Waugh and Innes, 1821 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 97
Seite 1
... hearts and habits of the people for their reception . We know , that we shall by some persons be condemned as alarmists for making these statements ; but we can without diffi- culty encounter or contemn that charge . We can anticipate ...
... hearts and habits of the people for their reception . We know , that we shall by some persons be condemned as alarmists for making these statements ; but we can without diffi- culty encounter or contemn that charge . We can anticipate ...
Seite 2
... heart , and the same posses- sion which has ever been deprecated in the hands of princes and of states , may perhaps demand some little circumspection , even when entrusted to the boasted virtue of the populace . Not only , however , is ...
... heart , and the same posses- sion which has ever been deprecated in the hands of princes and of states , may perhaps demand some little circumspection , even when entrusted to the boasted virtue of the populace . Not only , however , is ...
Seite 7
... hearts of Englishmen , upon which these impostors have not at sometime or other poured their contumely ? What is ... heart- and which , without countenance from the virtue , intelligence , and honour of the country , is brought forth ...
... hearts of Englishmen , upon which these impostors have not at sometime or other poured their contumely ? What is ... heart- and which , without countenance from the virtue , intelligence , and honour of the country , is brought forth ...
Seite 8
... heart , - we cannot but remind such infatuated triflers that they are speaking of a change of which they have not fancy enough to anticipate the horrors , and which they will never perhaps un- derstand till they are steeped to the lips ...
... heart , - we cannot but remind such infatuated triflers that they are speaking of a change of which they have not fancy enough to anticipate the horrors , and which they will never perhaps un- derstand till they are steeped to the lips ...
Seite 14
... heart of the insurgent even in his noisiest exultation - by the mutual fear of treachery , which repels from each other those who , in order to be strong , must be bound by the most unreserved sympathy , and linked to- gether by the ...
... heart of the insurgent even in his noisiest exultation - by the mutual fear of treachery , which repels from each other those who , in order to be strong , must be bound by the most unreserved sympathy , and linked to- gether by the ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admirable Amy Robsart ancient appear artist Austria Baron Stein beauty botany British called Castel Madama Celts character colouring cultivated Domenichino Duke Edinburgh effect England English engraving Europe excellent executed exhibition father favour feeling France French friends genius Germany give heart Hofer Holland honour human India inhabitants interest Italy Jacobite king labour lady laws Leicester letter Lord Lord Byron manner master means ment merit mind Naples native nature never notice object observed opinion painter painting peace of Tilsit persons Phrenology picture plagal modes poem poet poetical poetry political portrait possessed Poussin present Prince principles produce Prussia Queen racter readers reign remarks Rome Scotland Scythians seems shew society sovereign spirit style talents taste thing thou tion Tressilian truth Tyrol Varney vols volume whole
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 183 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper.
Seite 415 - But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Seite 415 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And -we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Seite 246 - The parties broke up without noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages; that is to say, by the vehicles Nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon.
Seite 182 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third — [" Treason " cried the Speaker ; " treason ! treason ! " echoed from every part of the house.
Seite 243 - ... philosopher; for his mind was either elevated above, or tranquilly settled below, the cares and perplexities of this world. He had lived in it for years, without feeling the least curiosity to know whether the sun revolved round it, or it round the sun; and he had watched, for at least half a century, the smoke curling from his pipe to the ceiling, without once troubling his head with any of those numerous theories by which a philosopher would have perplexed his brain, in accounting for its rising...
Seite 245 - New Amsterdam, for the people immediately perceived that they had a very wise and equitable magistrate to rule over them. But its happiest effect was, that not another lawsuit took place throughout the whole of his administration; and the office of constable fell into such decay, that there was not one of those losel scouts known in the province for many years. I am the more particular in dwelling on this transaction, not only because I deem it one of the most sage and righteous judgments on record,...
Seite 415 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little hell reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him...
Seite 183 - I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all. At this sermon there was also one of our club, who, being of my sentiments respecting the building in Georgia, and suspecting a collection might be intended, had by precaution emptied his pockets before he came from home.
Seite 243 - ... theories by which a philosopher would have perplexed his brain, in accounting for its rising above the surrounding atmosphere. " In his council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced Timmerman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws.