The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 138A. Constable, 1873 |
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... amount of frivolity may have attached to his tastes , was au fond a zealous and a discerning student of English antiquity . These letters , ' he said , ' make to me all other letters not worth reading . ' Hannah More , no doubt in ...
... amount of frivolity may have attached to his tastes , was au fond a zealous and a discerning student of English antiquity . These letters , ' he said , ' make to me all other letters not worth reading . ' Hannah More , no doubt in ...
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... amount of hered- itary respect . The editor , ' he says , remembers a female ' relation of the former vicar of St. Erth , who , instructed by ' a dream , prepared decoctions of various kinds , and , repairing to the Land's End , poured ...
... amount of hered- itary respect . The editor , ' he says , remembers a female ' relation of the former vicar of St. Erth , who , instructed by ' a dream , prepared decoctions of various kinds , and , repairing to the Land's End , poured ...
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... amount of wariness is needful in following such guides as these . A very brilliant and noble exception , however , is to be mentioned in the person of the Abbé L. Chiarini , Professor of Oriental Languages at the Royal University of ...
... amount of wariness is needful in following such guides as these . A very brilliant and noble exception , however , is to be mentioned in the person of the Abbé L. Chiarini , Professor of Oriental Languages at the Royal University of ...
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... amounts to twelve millions of rios . The duties levied at the ports are insignificant . Our task is hard , but we shall succeed . The Shoguns lied ; we shall speak the truth to all . " ( Hübner , vol . i . p . 559. ) 9 These are most ...
... amounts to twelve millions of rios . The duties levied at the ports are insignificant . Our task is hard , but we shall succeed . The Shoguns lied ; we shall speak the truth to all . " ( Hübner , vol . i . p . 559. ) 9 These are most ...
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... amount of historical information . We doubt if so complete a record exists of the dress , ornaments , and occu- pations of any race of men , unless it be in the vast ruins of Egyptian monuments from which modern science and ingenuity ...
... amount of historical information . We doubt if so complete a record exists of the dress , ornaments , and occu- pations of any race of men , unless it be in the vast ruins of Egyptian monuments from which modern science and ingenuity ...
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Page 551 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
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Page 543 - Ever remember that thou art human, not merely a natural production ; ever remember that all others are human also, and, with all individual differences, the same as thou, having the same needs and claims as thyself; this is the sum and substance of morality.