The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine and Review, Հատոր 1D. Schaw and Son., 1810 |
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... writer in a periodical publication . Such works are chiefly calculated for those who possess neither leisure nor at- tainments to peruse , with advantage or pleasure , more elaborate and detailed performances , and who seek for as much ...
... writer in a periodical publication . Such works are chiefly calculated for those who possess neither leisure nor at- tainments to peruse , with advantage or pleasure , more elaborate and detailed performances , and who seek for as much ...
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... writer on such a subject can propose is , by pointing out and unfolding its general nature and pernicious tendency , to repress its fury , and to excite caution against its ex- cesses . This is the chief object of this essay , in which ...
... writer on such a subject can propose is , by pointing out and unfolding its general nature and pernicious tendency , to repress its fury , and to excite caution against its ex- cesses . This is the chief object of this essay , in which ...
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... writers , the state of polite literature , by the confession of their own literary men , is at the lowest ebb . Those who cultivate it , say the second and third classes of the Institute in their address to Bonaparte , are old men , and ...
... writers , the state of polite literature , by the confession of their own literary men , is at the lowest ebb . Those who cultivate it , say the second and third classes of the Institute in their address to Bonaparte , are old men , and ...
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publications recommended him to the best scholars on the conti- nent as a writer of great erudition , and of still greater ingenuity . His essays on scepticism , and on the natural equality of men , laid the foundation of his fame as a ...
publications recommended him to the best scholars on the conti- nent as a writer of great erudition , and of still greater ingenuity . His essays on scepticism , and on the natural equality of men , laid the foundation of his fame as a ...
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... writer , and himself professor of natural history in Marischal College : " I embrace , with great pleasure , this public opportunity of expressing my obligations to my friend and colleague , Mr Professor Beattie , whose modesty in ...
... writer , and himself professor of natural history in Marischal College : " I embrace , with great pleasure , this public opportunity of expressing my obligations to my friend and colleague , Mr Professor Beattie , whose modesty in ...
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Էջ 13 - The illustrious soul that has left amongst us the name of Burns, has often been lowered down to a comparison with me ; but the comparison exists more in circumstances than in essentials. That man stood up with the stamp of superior intellect on his brow ; a visible greatness : and great and patriotic subjects would only have called into action the powers of his mind, which lay inactive while he played calmly and exquisitely the pastoral pipe. " The letters to which I have alluded in my preface to...
Էջ 13 - Burns," has been the watch-word of my friends. I do remember Burns ; but I am not Burns ! neither have I his fire to fan or to quench; nor his passions to control! Where then is my merit if I make a peaceful voyage on a smooth sea and with no mutiny on board?
Էջ 2 - French decrees should have actually taken effect and the commerce of neutral nations have been restored to the condition in which it stood previously to the promulgation of those decrees.
Էջ 2 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Էջ 14 - Holland, and of ll£ per cent, in the exchange with Paris, to be explained in some other manner. If the same mode of calculation be applied to the more recent statements of the exchange with the continent, it will perhaps appear, that though the computed exchange is at present against this country, the real exchange is in its favour. From the foregoing reasonings relative to the...
Էջ 83 - And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. 22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth; for it is not fit that he should live.
Էջ 3 - As long as the philologer confines himself to discussions of grammar and of etymology, his labours, while they are peculiarly calculated to gratify the natural and liberal curiosity of men of erudition, may often furnish important data for illustrating the progress of laws, of arts, and of manners ; — for clearing up obscure passages in ancient writers ; — or for tracing the migrations of mankind, in ages of which we have no historical records.
Էջ 8 - An increase in the quantity of the local currency of a particular country, will raise prices in that country exactly in the same manner as an increase in the general supply of precious metals raises prices all over the world.