Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumul 105William Blackwood, 1869 |
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Pagina 2
... become in mo- dern times the most unsatisfactory , the least beneficial , the most un- practical of all knowledges . Amid the busy world , in which every man has his work to do and his burden to bear , to walk over real thorns that tear ...
... become in mo- dern times the most unsatisfactory , the least beneficial , the most un- practical of all knowledges . Amid the busy world , in which every man has his work to do and his burden to bear , to walk over real thorns that tear ...
Pagina 15
... become better , wiser , and purer . " Whether the prosperity that pre- ceded or the calamities that suc- ceeded the South Sea project have most contributed to our undoing , " he says , " is not so clear a point as it is that we are ...
... become better , wiser , and purer . " Whether the prosperity that pre- ceded or the calamities that suc- ceeded the South Sea project have most contributed to our undoing , " he says , " is not so clear a point as it is that we are ...
Pagina 17
... become as nothing in comparison with those savage Americans . Yet there is a certain statesmanlike calm even in his fervour . It is no wild solitary expedition on which he longs to set out . His scheme is to carry a staff with him - to ...
... become as nothing in comparison with those savage Americans . Yet there is a certain statesmanlike calm even in his fervour . It is no wild solitary expedition on which he longs to set out . His scheme is to carry a staff with him - to ...
Pagina 32
... become teacher of that instrument to the king's daughters - Coche , Loque , Chiffe , and Graille , -but a teacher without pay , with unlimited commis- sions to buy music and musical in- struments , and to pay for them and get paid as he ...
... become teacher of that instrument to the king's daughters - Coche , Loque , Chiffe , and Graille , -but a teacher without pay , with unlimited commis- sions to buy music and musical in- struments , and to pay for them and get paid as he ...
Pagina 40
... become classic literature and popu- lar : at the present day they are reprinted and read among the work- men of France , but at the time of their publication the success was enormous . Beaumarchais had be- come a famous character before ...
... become classic literature and popu- lar : at the present day they are reprinted and read among the work- men of France , but at the time of their publication the success was enormous . Beaumarchais had be- come a famous character before ...
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Pagina 102 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Pagina 683 - Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
Pagina 501 - I have another and a far brighter vision before my gaze. It may be but a vision; but I will cherish it. I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main ; and I see one people and one language and one law and one faith, and over all that wide continent the home of freedom and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime.
Pagina 683 - I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours...
Pagina 17 - But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park, or books existing in a closet, and nobody by to perceive them. I answer, you may so, there is no difficulty in it ; but what is all this, I beseech you, more than framing in your mind certain ideas which you call books and trees, and at the same time omitting to frame the idea of any one that may perceive them?
Pagina 230 - Who is on my side? who?" And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses : and he trode her under foot.
Pagina 24 - A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity by a College to be Erected in the Summer Islands, Otherwise Called the Isles of Bermuda . . . London, 1724 '[ Fothergill, John].
Pagina 26 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads, and noblest hearts.
Pagina 682 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Pagina 649 - Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain.