The Quarterly review, Volume 98Murray, 1856 |
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... already cashiered ; wherewith they were so surprised , crossed , and confused , as they would not suffer him to go on in his speech , but relinquished their demands , and made it their suit to be again called by the name of " Milites ...
... already cashiered ; wherewith they were so surprised , crossed , and confused , as they would not suffer him to go on in his speech , but relinquished their demands , and made it their suit to be again called by the name of " Milites ...
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... already intimated , was one of the great orator's chief endowments . Quintilian celebrates his urbanitas , the word by which the ancients expressed that peculiar elegance of humour which smacks of the cultivation of a capital ; which ...
... already intimated , was one of the great orator's chief endowments . Quintilian celebrates his urbanitas , the word by which the ancients expressed that peculiar elegance of humour which smacks of the cultivation of a capital ; which ...
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... already referred to Johnson's admiration of the ' Table- Talk ' of Selden , and one of his own most celebrated dicta was borrowed from it . ' Sir , ' said he to Boswell , ' your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but ...
... already referred to Johnson's admiration of the ' Table- Talk ' of Selden , and one of his own most celebrated dicta was borrowed from it . ' Sir , ' said he to Boswell , ' your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but ...
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... already begun against the Ticket - of- leave system , and it is likely to increase as the formidable cha- racteristics of our professional convict class become more familiar to us . But it must be borne in mind that , however the ...
... already begun against the Ticket - of- leave system , and it is likely to increase as the formidable cha- racteristics of our professional convict class become more familiar to us . But it must be borne in mind that , however the ...
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... already been done in the matter . Experience will help us to several conclusions . It is impossible to trace the rise of reformatory schools to a single source . We may say that Red Hill is the offspring of Mettray , and that Mettray is ...
... already been done in the matter . Experience will help us to several conclusions . It is impossible to trace the rise of reformatory schools to a single source . We may say that Red Hill is the offspring of Mettray , and that Mettray is ...
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Page 168 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is •what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 142 - there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and there is the difference between the characters of Fielding and those of Richardson. Characters of manners are very entertaining; but they are to be understood by a more superficial observer than characters of nature, where a man must dive into the recesses of the human heart.
Page 115 - Wilson; and throughout he shows himself well read in stage-coaches, country 'squires, inns, and inns of court. His reflections upon high people and low people, and misses and masters, are very good.
Page 167 - The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point.
Page 181 - We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind.
Page 373 - But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
Page 423 - Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
Page 20 - That was excellently observed, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
Page 128 - They did not understand that freedom, and ran up, where they found him banqueting with a blind man," a whore, and three Irishmen, on some cold mutton and a bone of ham, both in one dish, and the dirtiest cloth.
Page 105 - I was born, no original has appeared excepting Congreve, and Fielding, who would, I believe, have approached nearer to his excellences if not forced by necessity to publish without correction, and throw many productions into the world he would have thrown into the fire if meat could have been got without money, or money without scribbling.