The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Том 78A. Constable, 1843 |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 100
Стр. 3
... persons indeed , except rate - payers , for their own . Throughout the southern districts this opinion was acted on . on his refusal , the magistrate , undertook to repeal the penalty inflicted by nature on idleness , improvidence ...
... persons indeed , except rate - payers , for their own . Throughout the southern districts this opinion was acted on . on his refusal , the magistrate , undertook to repeal the penalty inflicted by nature on idleness , improvidence ...
Стр. 6
... person doubts that , if no corn laws had existed , the landed pro- prietors of Great Britain would have been much richer than they now are . Less land would have been employed in producing corn , and more applied to raising green crops ...
... person doubts that , if no corn laws had existed , the landed pro- prietors of Great Britain would have been much richer than they now are . Less land would have been employed in producing corn , and more applied to raising green crops ...
Стр. 19
... person are so insecure as they were among our ancestors , every one must feel anxious to have some means of support if he should be forced to quit his home , or to witness the destruction of his less portable property . Again , the ...
... person are so insecure as they were among our ancestors , every one must feel anxious to have some means of support if he should be forced to quit his home , or to witness the destruction of his less portable property . Again , the ...
Стр. 21
... persons except the gatherers of gold would be diminished . This , of course , would occasion much more labour to be employed in gathering gold until the former amount of money were replaced . If , after this had taken place , the use of ...
... persons except the gatherers of gold would be diminished . This , of course , would occasion much more labour to be employed in gathering gold until the former amount of money were replaced . If , after this had taken place , the use of ...
Стр. 24
... person as to what has been done or is doing by another— an ignorance which occasions almost all the errors by which commerce is deranged . The goods which are exported from Hull to Stettin are sold for Prussian thalers - those exported ...
... person as to what has been done or is doing by another— an ignorance which occasions almost all the errors by which commerce is deranged . The goods which are exported from Hull to Stettin are sold for Prussian thalers - those exported ...
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
Addison appears beautiful believe Bentham blue-stocking British called character colours consequence court Cuba drama duty effect eminent England English equal exports favour feeling feet fish Flamstead France French friends genius give gold Government hand harmony honour Horner House of Commons hundred important interest labour lady learned less letter literary living Lord Lord Shelburne LXXVIII Magdalena bay manner ment mind moral nation nature never observed occasion opinion Paris Parliament Parthenon party passed peculiar person political Pope portion possess precious metals present Prince principles probably produced quantity racter readers remarkable river salmon says Scrope seems seen side society Spitzbergen St Neot success supposed taste Tatler theatre thing tion Tories truth Uxmal Webb Seymour Whig Whig party whole writing young
Популярные отрывки
Стр. 384 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Стр. 199 - The world generally gives its admiration, not to the man who does what nobody else even attempts to do, but to the man who does best what multitudes do well.
Стр. 370 - Thick 8vo, cloth, 6s (original price 12s) Published under the superintendence of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature.
Стр. 251 - Oh! if sometimes thy spotless form descend, To me, thy aid, thou guardian genius, lend! When rage misguides me, or when fear alarms, When pain distresses, or when pleasure charms, In silent whisperings purer thoughts impart, And turn from ill a frail and feeble heart, Lead through the paths thy virtue trod before, Till bliss shall join, nor death can part us more.
Стр. 229 - The mere choice and arrangement of his words would have sufficed to make his essays classical. For never, not even by Dryden, not even by Temple, had the English language been written with such sweetness, grace, and facility.
Стр. 455 - Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous Of which the very ruins are tremendous.
Стр. 251 - Or dost thou warn poor mortals left behind, A task well suited to thy gentle mind ? Oh! if sometimes thy spotless form descend, To me thy aid, thou guardian genius, lend! When rage misguides me, or when fear alarms, When pain distresses, or when pleasure charms, In silent whisperings purer thoughts impart, And turn from ill a frail and feeble heart; Lead through the paths thy virtue trod before, Till bliss shall join, nor death can...
Стр. 238 - ... and books on farriery included. In these circumstances, the sale of the Spectator must be considered as indicating a popularity quite as great as that of the most successful works of Sir Walter Scott and Mr. Dickens in our own time.
Стр. 218 - ... fast. Whole fleets had been cast away. Large mansions had been blown down. One prelate had been buried beneath the ruins of his palace. London and Bristol had presented the appearance of cities just sacked. Hundreds of families were still in mourning. The prostrate trunks of large trees, and the ruins of houses, still attested, in all the Southern counties, the fury of the blast. The popularity which the simile of the angel enjoyed among Addison's contemporaries has always seemed to us to be...
Стр. 194 - To Addison himself we are bound by a sentiment as much like affection as any sentiment can be which is inspired by one who has been sleeping a hundred and twenty years in Westminster Abbey.