The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Հատոր 139A. Constable, 1874 |
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... difficulties would soon have been surmounted ; and we should have got into the fields of thought and sentiment which had an interest common to us both . But I was a busy man in these years , and not equal in health and strength to what ...
... difficulties would soon have been surmounted ; and we should have got into the fields of thought and sentiment which had an interest common to us both . But I was a busy man in these years , and not equal in health and strength to what ...
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... difficulty ; but his mind was clear and powerful , and so continued till he fell into a state of coma , which lasted till he ceased to breathe , about six o'clock in the morning . His body was opened , according to his own earnest ...
... difficulty ; but his mind was clear and powerful , and so continued till he fell into a state of coma , which lasted till he ceased to breathe , about six o'clock in the morning . His body was opened , according to his own earnest ...
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... difficulties and settling differences so quietly that the very fact of their having existed should , if possible , remain unnoticed . The chief merit of his peaceful triumphs frequently consists in their being unknown , and the ...
... difficulties and settling differences so quietly that the very fact of their having existed should , if possible , remain unnoticed . The chief merit of his peaceful triumphs frequently consists in their being unknown , and the ...
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... difficulty of the Diplomatic Service . Some ineffectual efforts were made to remove the hardships caused by this second examination , and the subject was much considered by the Committee of 1861 , who at last recommended that there ...
... difficulty of the Diplomatic Service . Some ineffectual efforts were made to remove the hardships caused by this second examination , and the subject was much considered by the Committee of 1861 , who at last recommended that there ...
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... difficulties . A remedy very generally recommended for getting rid of this defect is , altogether to unprofessionalise the Service , i . e . , to appoint eminent men who have had no diplomatic training to the posts of envoys , and to ...
... difficulties . A remedy very generally recommended for getting rid of this defect is , altogether to unprofessionalise the Service , i . e . , to appoint eminent men who have had no diplomatic training to the posts of envoys , and to ...
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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.