The Edinburgh Review, Հատոր 48,Հատոր 82A. and C. Black, 1845 |
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... give himself the airs of a legisla- tor over the material world . He If we know not the author personally , we may well rejoice in our ignorance ; for our criticisms have not the semblance of per- sonal hostility . It is an imperious ...
... give himself the airs of a legisla- tor over the material world . He If we know not the author personally , we may well rejoice in our ignorance ; for our criticisms have not the semblance of per- sonal hostility . It is an imperious ...
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... gives us , at least , a comprehensible cause of organic changes from one species to another ; while our author talks only of development -- a word without sense or significance , if he fail to give us any material facts to gloss its ...
... gives us , at least , a comprehensible cause of organic changes from one species to another ; while our author talks only of development -- a word without sense or significance , if he fail to give us any material facts to gloss its ...
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" He cannot give up this experiment without burying his whole household ; for , in truth , it is the only prop on which he builds his habitation ; and the stone jelly to feed his little larvæ is quite affecting . But in the third ...
" He cannot give up this experiment without burying his whole household ; for , in truth , it is the only prop on which he builds his habitation ; and the stone jelly to feed his little larvæ is quite affecting . But in the third ...
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... give no creative power to these agents , any more than we give creative power to the carbon and oxygen , and other vulgar constituents of our bodies . The frozen vapour on our window may imitate the outer forms of vegetable life , but ...
... give no creative power to these agents , any more than we give creative power to the carbon and oxygen , and other vulgar constituents of our bodies . The frozen vapour on our window may imitate the outer forms of vegetable life , but ...
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... give a few examples ; but , for want of space , it must be in the way only of simple enume- ration . He believes that Mr Crosse has , by help of his galvanie battery , made an Acarus well fledged and full of eggs ; and he be- lieves ...
... give a few examples ; but , for want of space , it must be in the way only of simple enume- ration . He believes that Mr Crosse has , by help of his galvanie battery , made an Acarus well fledged and full of eggs ; and he be- lieves ...
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Էջ 106 - Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Էջ 504 - he is a middle.sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark-brown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Էջ 79 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Էջ 258 - ... that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of the said country...
Էջ 202 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Էջ 425 - I was an absolute pedant : when I talked my best, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial ; and when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid.
Էջ 37 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made them and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Էջ 277 - And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire ; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Էջ 437 - The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
Էջ 449 - Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company, — this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.