The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 95Archibald Constable and Company, 1825 - English literature |
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Page 49
... means averse , as it had the effect , both of causing me read with spirit , and read a double quantity . From that time forward , reading constituted , as it still does , my chief source of gratifi- cation . Shortly after this , I began ...
... means averse , as it had the effect , both of causing me read with spirit , and read a double quantity . From that time forward , reading constituted , as it still does , my chief source of gratifi- cation . Shortly after this , I began ...
Page 50
... means sought quarrels . Such is a slight outline of my past days , from boyhood till now , when I find myself obliged to bear my part of the active duties of life : and though I can make no pretensions to learning , yet I have acquired ...
... means sought quarrels . Such is a slight outline of my past days , from boyhood till now , when I find myself obliged to bear my part of the active duties of life : and though I can make no pretensions to learning , yet I have acquired ...
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... means an infal- lible guide in the search of happiness . I am strongly inclined to charge those writers who have painted the charms of learning and cultivation in such glowing colours , with a wilful mis- representation of human nature ...
... means an infal- lible guide in the search of happiness . I am strongly inclined to charge those writers who have painted the charms of learning and cultivation in such glowing colours , with a wilful mis- representation of human nature ...
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... means of an intellectual ladder , and , when fairly over , may thread the most intricate windings under the sure conduct of a Practical Guide . It is highly commendable for men of genius thus to abridge the labour and increase the power ...
... means of an intellectual ladder , and , when fairly over , may thread the most intricate windings under the sure conduct of a Practical Guide . It is highly commendable for men of genius thus to abridge the labour and increase the power ...
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... mean by the Gen- tiles ? I'm doubtfu ' gif ye binna per- verting that word , as you ha'e done the sermon . Thomas ... means , no the weel - born and the weel - bred , but Heathens and Pagans . Thomas . - Weel - a - weel , they're a ...
... mean by the Gen- tiles ? I'm doubtfu ' gif ye binna per- verting that word , as you ha'e done the sermon . Thomas ... means , no the weel - born and the weel - bred , but Heathens and Pagans . Thomas . - Weel - a - weel , they're a ...
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Page 547 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 134 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so...
Page 547 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Page 549 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this?
Page 69 - Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
Page 299 - Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Page 299 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Page 411 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him : and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Page 548 - With wondrous potency. Once more, good night, And when you are desirous to be blest, I'll blessing beg of you.
Page 416 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o