The Quarterly review, Volume 98Murray, 1856 |
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... present generation . Selden's Table - Talk , which Johnson pre- ferred to all the French Ana , ' was passing into forgetfulness in our own times when he took it under his editorial care . world cannot afford to throw aside such books ...
... present generation . Selden's Table - Talk , which Johnson pre- ferred to all the French Ana , ' was passing into forgetfulness in our own times when he took it under his editorial care . world cannot afford to throw aside such books ...
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... present , ' says Bayle , believe his pretensions to be well - founded . ' ( Dict . , art . Verona.In the splendid work of Count Litta on Italian families , the claim is rejected as preposterous . Julius Cæsar's pretended grandfather ...
... present , ' says Bayle , believe his pretensions to be well - founded . ' ( Dict . , art . Verona.In the splendid work of Count Litta on Italian families , the claim is rejected as preposterous . Julius Cæsar's pretended grandfather ...
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... present con- cerned . The abuse of the title soon brought it into discredit , and the ardour for the entire genus cooled . We find Voltaire , in the Dictionnaire Philosophique , ' denouncing the vast majo- rity of them as unworthy of ...
... present con- cerned . The abuse of the title soon brought it into discredit , and the ardour for the entire genus cooled . We find Voltaire , in the Dictionnaire Philosophique , ' denouncing the vast majo- rity of them as unworthy of ...
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... present we have the various Conversations ' of Lord Byron , besides the ever - in- creasing Memoirs ' and ' Diaries , ' such as those of Mackintosh and Moore . Byron was a most remarkable talker . His more serious conversation , ' said ...
... present we have the various Conversations ' of Lord Byron , besides the ever - in- creasing Memoirs ' and ' Diaries , ' such as those of Mackintosh and Moore . Byron was a most remarkable talker . His more serious conversation , ' said ...
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... present . The higher belles - lettres of an age are admitted to be exponents of its man- ners , and we find the complaint made by Mr. Disraeli , and tes- tified to by Mr. Thackeray . How small a part is played by conversation in our ...
... present . The higher belles - lettres of an age are admitted to be exponents of its man- ners , and we find the complaint made by Mr. Disraeli , and tes- tified to by Mr. Thackeray . How small a part is played by conversation in our ...
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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.