The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 66A. Constable, 1838 |
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Or Critical Journal. respect to private letters , few only can have any literary interest for the public ; and of these , from many reasons , it is a small per centage which would , under any circumstances , ever see the light . But the ...
Or Critical Journal. respect to private letters , few only can have any literary interest for the public ; and of these , from many reasons , it is a small per centage which would , under any circumstances , ever see the light . But the ...
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... interest , a stranger stands too far off . This is a case where we have no security for fidelity in the outline ... interests were more domestic , that more of their own individuality gets out . Common personal diaries , which ought to ...
... interest , a stranger stands too far off . This is a case where we have no security for fidelity in the outline ... interests were more domestic , that more of their own individuality gets out . Common personal diaries , which ought to ...
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... interest ; they imply acquaintance ; they are of one sen- timent , which is of the family of dearness . I can neither scold ' at nor quarrel at this insignificant implement of household ser- ' vices ; she is less than a cat , and just ...
... interest ; they imply acquaintance ; they are of one sen- timent , which is of the family of dearness . I can neither scold ' at nor quarrel at this insignificant implement of household ser- ' vices ; she is less than a cat , and just ...
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... interest . He asserted , and so far as the recognition of a recreant nobility could effect it , he established the superiority of the English over the Scottish crown . Having attained that object , he seems to have proceeded with ...
... interest . He asserted , and so far as the recognition of a recreant nobility could effect it , he established the superiority of the English over the Scottish crown . Having attained that object , he seems to have proceeded with ...
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... interest might be attended to ; and urging him strongly , if these sinister reports should be confirmed , to repair instantly to the Borders in order to give confidence to the people of Scotland , and enable them , without effusion of ...
... interest might be attended to ; and urging him strongly , if these sinister reports should be confirmed , to repair instantly to the Borders in order to give confidence to the people of Scotland , and enable them , without effusion of ...
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Seite 169 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Seite 185 - Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and...
Seite 21 - I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments, as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
Seite 163 - The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them.
Seite 172 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Seite 21 - The wonder of these sights impels me into night-walks about her crowded streets, and I often shed tears in the motley Strand from fulness of joy at so much life. — All these emotions must be strange to you; so are your rural emotions to me. But consider, what must I have been doing all my life, not to have lent great portions of my heart with usury to such scenes?
Seite 189 - Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Seite 172 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Seite 16 - ... being in general readers of plays, were obliged to attend the more, and did attend, to what was going on on the stage, because a word lost would have been a chasm which it was impossible for them to fill up. With such reflections we consoled our pride then ; and I appeal to you whether as a woman I met generally with less attention and accommodation than I have done since in more expensive situations in the house.
Seite 184 - He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed ; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed.