The North British Review, Հատոր 24W.P. Kennedy, 1855 |
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... society which was not in his view when he aspired to make a fortune , and to give his children an education . But from whence are drawn these much needed importations of fresh animal vigour ? Seldom from the country . The instances are ...
... society which was not in his view when he aspired to make a fortune , and to give his children an education . But from whence are drawn these much needed importations of fresh animal vigour ? Seldom from the country . The instances are ...
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... society age , rather than as an actual being of flesh were altered , for probably these proportions and blood - that the biographer of Butler is are more constant under all changes of sys- able to follow him during those seventeen tem ...
... society age , rather than as an actual being of flesh were altered , for probably these proportions and blood - that the biographer of Butler is are more constant under all changes of sys- able to follow him during those seventeen tem ...
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... Society were a regular word , obtained of his Grace to name a day when part of the gossip of the town . Isaac Newton was then a youth of twenty , con- cluding his studies at Cambridge ; but it was not long before the Society had com ...
... Society were a regular word , obtained of his Grace to name a day when part of the gossip of the town . Isaac Newton was then a youth of twenty , con- cluding his studies at Cambridge ; but it was not long before the Society had com ...
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... society into its specific parts and , atoms - statesmen , lawyers , poets , phy- sicians , divines , wits , & c . , and returned ap parently the same merciless verdict on each part that he did on the whole . The most interesting and ...
... society into its specific parts and , atoms - statesmen , lawyers , poets , phy- sicians , divines , wits , & c . , and returned ap parently the same merciless verdict on each part that he did on the whole . The most interesting and ...
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... society and poli- 74. A leader of a faction . tics altogether : some are taken from the 75. A debauched man . 76. A seditious man . 77. An affected man . 78. A medicine - taker . 79. The rude man . 80. A miser . 81. A rabble . 82. A ...
... society and poli- 74. A leader of a faction . tics altogether : some are taken from the 75. A debauched man . 76. A seditious man . 77. An affected man . 78. A medicine - taker . 79. The rude man . 80. A miser . 81. A rabble . 82. A ...
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Էջ 246 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Էջ 19 - Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying, There on beds of violets blue And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled her with thee, a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair.
Էջ 253 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Էջ 107 - That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Էջ 239 - Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know, (How nothing's that?) to whom my country owes The great renown, and name wherewith she goes.
Էջ 35 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Էջ 26 - Statutes at Large; the works of Hume, Gibbon, Robertson, Beattie, Soame Jenyns, and, generally, all those volumes which "no gentleman's library should be without " : the Histories of Flavius Josephus (that learned Jew), and Paley's Moral Philosophy.
Էջ 35 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk ; VOL.
Էջ 8 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Էջ 112 - The parson is always preaching at the squire, and the squire to be revenged on the parson never comes to church. The squire has made all his tenants atheists and...