The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Հատոր 139 |
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During the slow , and often all but stagnating progress of this remarkable
revolution , ancient literature fell into disregard . The new phase of the human
mind had not yet taken its form ; and for a considerable interval , the history of
letters , and ...
During the slow , and often all but stagnating progress of this remarkable
revolution , ancient literature fell into disregard . The new phase of the human
mind had not yet taken its form ; and for a considerable interval , the history of
letters , and ...
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Of the libraries which were founded , or which , from more ancient beginnings ,
grew into eminence , in the early part of that remarkable period , some have
altogether disappeared ; some are still extant , and still enjoy a greater or less
degree ...
Of the libraries which were founded , or which , from more ancient beginnings ,
grew into eminence , in the early part of that remarkable period , some have
altogether disappeared ; some are still extant , and still enjoy a greater or less
degree ...
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Within the last twenty years a succession of scholars have sought to resolve the
question by personal examination , the most remarkable of whom have been Dr .
Mordtmann , author . of a work on the Antiquities of Byzantium , Mr . Newton , of ...
Within the last twenty years a succession of scholars have sought to resolve the
question by personal examination , the most remarkable of whom have been Dr .
Mordtmann , author . of a work on the Antiquities of Byzantium , Mr . Newton , of ...
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It is somewhat remarkable that the labours of Corvinus should be all but
unrepresented in the great modern collections . The Bibliothèque Nationale at
Paris has but a single Corvinian MS . , while the library of the British Museum
does not ...
It is somewhat remarkable that the labours of Corvinus should be all but
unrepresented in the great modern collections . The Bibliothèque Nationale at
Paris has but a single Corvinian MS . , while the library of the British Museum
does not ...
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... as a monument of priestcraft and monarchy . On the whole , nevertheless , the
revolutionary period was , in point of material progress and of advance in the
actual growth of the collections , by far the most remarkable in the entire course of
its ...
... as a monument of priestcraft and monarchy . On the whole , nevertheless , the
revolutionary period was , in point of material progress and of advance in the
actual growth of the collections , by far the most remarkable in the entire course of
its ...
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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.