The Edinburgh Review, Հատոր 75A. and C. Black, 1842 |
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... seem utterly careless as to the opinions of foreigners . Again , two nations may be both timid ; but one may fear the evils of defeat , the other the evils of victory . One surrounded by more power- ful neighbours , may be in constant ...
... seem utterly careless as to the opinions of foreigners . Again , two nations may be both timid ; but one may fear the evils of defeat , the other the evils of victory . One surrounded by more power- ful neighbours , may be in constant ...
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... seems always beset by doubts as to the reality of the grounds on which it is founded . Proud as she is of her glory and of her power , she cannot forget that at sea she has been unsuccessful for centuries , and that on land her defeats ...
... seems always beset by doubts as to the reality of the grounds on which it is founded . Proud as she is of her glory and of her power , she cannot forget that at sea she has been unsuccessful for centuries , and that on land her defeats ...
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... seems to consider all opposition to her wishes as an insult , and all actual resistance , whether just or unjust , as a crime ; and she transmits an inheri- tance of hatred from one generation to another . Who would have supposed that ...
... seems to consider all opposition to her wishes as an insult , and all actual resistance , whether just or unjust , as a crime ; and she transmits an inheri- tance of hatred from one generation to another . Who would have supposed that ...
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... seems now destined , by what may appear to be a just retribution , to suffer wrongs almost equal to those which she formerly inflicted . The occupation of Pensacola and St Augustine , its avowal by President Monroe , and its sanction by ...
... seems now destined , by what may appear to be a just retribution , to suffer wrongs almost equal to those which she formerly inflicted . The occupation of Pensacola and St Augustine , its avowal by President Monroe , and its sanction by ...
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... seems to us probable - though from our imperfect knowledge we speak with great diffidence - that if she had interposed her advice and her mediation , she might have been able to diminish the anarchy and war which have laid waste almost ...
... seems to us probable - though from our imperfect knowledge we speak with great diffidence - that if she had interposed her advice and her mediation , she might have been able to diminish the anarchy and war which have laid waste almost ...
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Էջ 462 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Էջ 172 - But, gracious God, how well dost Thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness in the abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. O teach me to believe Thee thus concealed, And search no farther than Thyself revealed ; But her alone for my director take, Whom Thou hast promised never to forsake...
Էջ 169 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart ; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.
Էջ 232 - The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.
Էջ 169 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Էջ 254 - Yitruvius of ruin. He has bequeathed to us not a single doctrine to be called by his name — not a single addition to the stock of our positive knowledge. But no human teacher ever left behind him so vast and terrible a wreck of truths and falsehoods — of things noble and things base — of things useful and things pernicious.
Էջ 172 - Above it stood the Seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
Էջ 179 - Oh ! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...
Էջ 178 - For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as the snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly ! And the passionate strain that, deeply going. Refines the bosom it trembles through, As the musk-wind, over the water blowing, Ruffles the wave but sweetens it too...
Էջ 242 - One bookseller sent to the palace a copy of the most stinging lampoon that perhaps was ever written in the world, the Memoirs of Voltaire, published by Beaumarchais, and asked for his majesty's orders. " Do not advertise it in an offensive manner," said the King, " but sell it by all means. I hope it will pay you well.