The National Review, Том 2R. Theobald, 1856 |
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... POLITICAL TENDENCIES OF AMERICA 357 387 • 412 . 433 · Things as they are in America . By William Chambers . Edin- burgh and London , 1854 . Life of Horace Greeley , Editor of the New - York Tribune , By J. Parton . New York , 1855 ...
... POLITICAL TENDENCIES OF AMERICA 357 387 • 412 . 433 · Things as they are in America . By William Chambers . Edin- burgh and London , 1854 . Life of Horace Greeley , Editor of the New - York Tribune , By J. Parton . New York , 1855 ...
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... political investigation . " It was on this property , in whatever way acquired or retained , that the social position of the Gibbons was established ; and the remnants of it preserved from death the immortal author of the Decline and ...
... political investigation . " It was on this property , in whatever way acquired or retained , that the social position of the Gibbons was established ; and the remnants of it preserved from death the immortal author of the Decline and ...
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... Political eminence had given their language a diplomatic supremacy . There was no German literature at all ; Italy had ceased to produce important books . There was only England left to dispute the literary despotism ; and such an at ...
... Political eminence had given their language a diplomatic supremacy . There was no German literature at all ; Italy had ceased to produce important books . There was only England left to dispute the literary despotism ; and such an at ...
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... political life of Gibbon is briefly described . He was a supporter of Lord North . That well - known statesman was , in the most exact sense , a representative man , -although representative of the very class of persons most out of ...
... political life of Gibbon is briefly described . He was a supporter of Lord North . That well - known statesman was , in the most exact sense , a representative man , -although representative of the very class of persons most out of ...
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... political life ; a bachelor , not himself gay , but living with gay men ; equable and secular ; as Porson said , " never failing in natural feeling except when women were to be ravished and Christians to be martyred . " His writings are ...
... political life ; a bachelor , not himself gay , but living with gay men ; equable and secular ; as Porson said , " never failing in natural feeling except when women were to be ravished and Christians to be martyred . " His writings are ...
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Стр. 35 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Стр. 19 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Стр. 465 - CAMPBELL : — THE NATURE OF THE ATONEMENT AND ITS RELATION TO REMISSION OF SINS AND ETERNAL LIFE. Fourth and Cheaper Edition, crown 8vo. 6s. "Among the first theological treatises of this generation.
Стр. 353 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Стр. 369 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Стр. 336 - ... and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation: others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages and of worthies.
Стр. 353 - He must see ordinary men as they appear in their ordinary business, and in their ordinary pleasures. He must mingle in the crowds of the exchange and the coffee-house.
Стр. 369 - Years following years, steal something every day, At last they steal us from ourselves away; In one our frolics, one amusements end, In one a mistress drops, in one a friend...
Стр. 354 - Walter Scott, in the same manner, has used those fragments of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them, in a manner which may well excite their envy. He has constructed out of their gleanings works which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated.
Стр. 336 - Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas...