The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Հատոր 65A. Constable, 1837 |
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... Reader in Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Oxford . 2 vols . 8vo . London : 1836 . trace the history of remote events , and to investigate the Tmanners of ancient nations , has given occupation to the highest talents of the ...
... Reader in Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Oxford . 2 vols . 8vo . London : 1836 . trace the history of remote events , and to investigate the Tmanners of ancient nations , has given occupation to the highest talents of the ...
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... readers as bor- dering upon the marvellous ; while others will not fail to consider them as incompatible with the sober deductions of reason . The natural history of our early days extended no farther than the class of creations which ...
... readers as bor- dering upon the marvellous ; while others will not fail to consider them as incompatible with the sober deductions of reason . The natural history of our early days extended no farther than the class of creations which ...
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... readers , unless we recall to their recollection that ' the mind of the English public was at that time in a state of ، feverish excitement . * * * The heretical volcanists were now ' openly assailed in England by imputations of the ...
... readers , unless we recall to their recollection that ' the mind of the English public was at that time in a state of ، feverish excitement . * * * The heretical volcanists were now ' openly assailed in England by imputations of the ...
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... reader may safely infer that their progress was slow , when we state the fact , that so late as 1823 , when Dr ... readers as have studied the writings of Dr Hutton and Mr Playfair , cannot fail to have observed the delicacy with ...
... reader may safely infer that their progress was slow , when we state the fact , that so late as 1823 , when Dr ... readers as have studied the writings of Dr Hutton and Mr Playfair , cannot fail to have observed the delicacy with ...
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... readers have already been made acquainted with the nature and object of Lord Bridgewater's bequest . The variety and ' formation of God's creatures in the animal and mineral king- ' dom ' were among the topics suggested by the ...
... readers have already been made acquainted with the nature and object of Lord Bridgewater's bequest . The variety and ' formation of God's creatures in the animal and mineral king- ' dom ' were among the topics suggested by the ...
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Էջ 363 - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Էջ 363 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Էջ 344 - It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth...
Էջ 363 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Էջ 278 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Էջ 363 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Էջ 466 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Էջ 325 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Էջ 343 - But it is possible to make laws which shall, to a very great extent, secure property. And we do not understand how any motives which the ancient philosophy furnished could extinguish cupidity. We know indeed that the philosophers were no better than other men. From the testimony of friends as well as of foes, from the confessions of Epictetus and Seneca, as well as from the sneers of Lucian and the fierce invectives of Juvenal, it is plain that these teachers of virtue had all the vices of their...
Էջ 343 - An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities. The wise man of the Stoics would, no doubt, be a grander object than a steam-engine. But there are steamengines. And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born.