The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Հատոր 139 |
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... of Anglo - India , and even of Spanish America and the Brazils ; but also in
books of ancient classical learning , and in Hebrew , Oriental , Chinese and
Japanese literature . * In the current literature the periodicals hold a very
prominent place ...
... of Anglo - India , and even of Spanish America and the Brazils ; but also in
books of ancient classical learning , and in Hebrew , Oriental , Chinese and
Japanese literature . * In the current literature the periodicals hold a very
prominent place ...
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His account of his West Indian experiences , published under the title of Six •
Months in the West Indies , ' was a popular book in its day , and struck the public
ear with something of novelty because of its mercurial style - - that mixture of the ...
His account of his West Indian experiences , published under the title of Six •
Months in the West Indies , ' was a popular book in its day , and struck the public
ear with something of novelty because of its mercurial style - - that mixture of the ...
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That event took place in January , 1843 , after a long illness from spinal paralysis
, the ultimate development of those symptoms - presumed then to have been of a
rheumatic nature — for which he undertook his West Indian visit in 1825 .
That event took place in January , 1843 , after a long illness from spinal paralysis
, the ultimate development of those symptoms - presumed then to have been of a
rheumatic nature — for which he undertook his West Indian visit in 1825 .
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It has been adopted in the Indian Civil Service , and appears to be open to but
one objection — that it might tempt persons who had a facility for learning
languages to acquire several instead of giving to their employers the benefit of
their ...
It has been adopted in the Indian Civil Service , and appears to be open to but
one objection — that it might tempt persons who had a facility for learning
languages to acquire several instead of giving to their employers the benefit of
their ...
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The system has no doubt been constantly enforced with respect to Indian and
Colonial Governorships ; but their case is very different . The holders of these
offices have not been trained up for them from their youth , nor have they had to
pass ...
The system has no doubt been constantly enforced with respect to Indian and
Colonial Governorships ; but their case is very different . The holders of these
offices have not been trained up for them from their youth , nor have they had to
pass ...
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Էջ 570 - Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful?
Էջ 111 - Suppose that all your objects in life were realized ; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
Էջ 113 - What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty.
Էջ 112 - I, for the first time, gave its proper place, among the prime necessities of human well-being, to the internal culture of the individual. I ceased to attach almost exclusive importance to the ordering of outward circumstances, and the training of the human being for speculation and for action.
Էջ 113 - ... shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith ; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things; Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. Here you stand, Adore and worship, when you know it not ; Pious beyond the intention of your thought, Devout above the meaning of your will.
Էջ 111 - I carried it with me into all companies, into all occupations. Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes oblivion of it.
Էջ 570 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend* From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbour there...
Էջ 111 - It was in the autumn of 1826. I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to ; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement ; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent ; the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten bv their first "conviction of sin.
Էջ 112 - The maintenance of a due balance among the faculties, now seemed to me of primary importance. The cultivation of the feelings became one of the cardinal points in my ethical and philosophical creed.