The Quarterly Review, Հատոր 92William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1853 |
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... English Com- pany , that they grudged to spare a few drops from their brimming chalice for the maintenance of a system such as your Managing Direc- tor has energetically carried out ready to your hand ? Which · of us does not know too ...
... English Com- pany , that they grudged to spare a few drops from their brimming chalice for the maintenance of a system such as your Managing Direc- tor has energetically carried out ready to your hand ? Which · of us does not know too ...
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... English grammar and rhetoric , and , I think , logic and some other studies . I sat down boldly to the task , reciting every morning five lessons which I mastered during the preceding evening , and five or six more in the course of the ...
... English grammar and rhetoric , and , I think , logic and some other studies . I sat down boldly to the task , reciting every morning five lessons which I mastered during the preceding evening , and five or six more in the course of the ...
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... English youth from a public school starting in the far more brilliant and large worlds of Oxford or Cambridge could scarcely be so excited as Story , coming from his secluded fishing village and its academy , was upon being launched at ...
... English youth from a public school starting in the far more brilliant and large worlds of Oxford or Cambridge could scarcely be so excited as Story , coming from his secluded fishing village and its academy , was upon being launched at ...
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... English lawyer as more extraordinary than that a counsel should offer to transfer his business , and that a Judge should see nothing in it to disapprove of . It does not appear that Pinkney was doing anything which an American lawyer ...
... English lawyer as more extraordinary than that a counsel should offer to transfer his business , and that a Judge should see nothing in it to disapprove of . It does not appear that Pinkney was doing anything which an American lawyer ...
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... English judges till of late were . The hours of sitting seem to be fewer - eleven to three or four - and the methods of pro- cedure such as would be really impossible if very many causes were pressing for decision . We do not forget ...
... English judges till of late were . The hours of sitting seem to be fewer - eleven to three or four - and the methods of pro- cedure such as would be really impossible if very many causes were pressing for decision . We do not forget ...
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Էջ 188 - The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air ; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.
Էջ 200 - There are in the piece those profound touches of the human heart which I find three or four times in " The Robbers " of Schiller, and often in Shakespeare, but in Wordsworth there are no inequalities.
Էջ 232 - The witchery of the soft blue sky ! 'On a fair prospect some have looked And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.
Էջ 59 - And be it enacted, that the superintendence, direction, and control of the whole civil and military Government of all the said territories and revenues in India shall be and is hereby invested in a Governor-General and Counsellors, to be styled "The Governor General of India in Council.
Էջ 475 - Call on a business man at business times only, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.
Էջ 231 - A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more...
Էջ 192 - We went staff in hand, without knapsacks, and carrying each his needments tied up in a pocket handkerchief, with about twenty pounds apiece in our pockets. We crossed from Dover and landed at Calais on the eve of the day when the king was to swear fidelity to the new constitution : an event which was solemnised with due pomp at Calais. On the afternoon of that day we started, and slept at Ardres.
Էջ 388 - I hope my dear wife and daughter will not be over-anxious if we should not return by the time they have fixed upon ; and I must beg of you to give them the benefit of your advice and experience when that arrives, for you know well, that even after the second winter, without success in our object, we should wish to try some other channel, if the state of our provisions, and the health of the crews, justify it.
Էջ 440 - This was naturally attended with strong expressions of resentment and disgust of his Ministers, and of personal abhorrence of Lord North, whom he charged with treachery and ingratitude of the blackest nature. He repeated, that to such a Ministry he never would give his confidence, and that he would take the first moment for dismissing them.
Էջ 41 - Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded because they flatter the people in order to betray them.