The Edinburgh Review, Bind 48;Bind 82A. and C. Black, 1845 |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 99
Side 2
... less interrupted , and hoping in this introductory matter to make our readers com- prehend the peculiar qualities of our author's mind , and his mode of dealing with great physical questions . It follows of necessity , that in the ...
... less interrupted , and hoping in this introductory matter to make our readers com- prehend the peculiar qualities of our author's mind , and his mode of dealing with great physical questions . It follows of necessity , that in the ...
Side 12
... less prominence , to every hu- man being . These qualities were known before phrenology was ever thought of ; but it gives them a local habitation , and some- times a new name . When , therefore , a credulous neophyte presents himself ...
... less prominence , to every hu- man being . These qualities were known before phrenology was ever thought of ; but it gives them a local habitation , and some- times a new name . When , therefore , a credulous neophyte presents himself ...
Side 18
... less . No one can have travelled by a railroad with- out having had his senses delighted with these flitting move- ments . The same kind of apparent movement must necessarily affect the bodies in the heavens , while we are carried in ...
... less . No one can have travelled by a railroad with- out having had his senses delighted with these flitting move- ments . The same kind of apparent movement must necessarily affect the bodies in the heavens , while we are carried in ...
Side 25
... less heat of temperature - and because it receives a less supply of heat from the emanation of the sun . By like reasoning , we make it probable that Mercury is much hotter than the earth . Hence it follows , on every probable reason we ...
... less heat of temperature - and because it receives a less supply of heat from the emanation of the sun . By like reasoning , we make it probable that Mercury is much hotter than the earth . Hence it follows , on every probable reason we ...
Side 34
... less con- tinuous , and is more degenerate ; but in South Wales and the neighbouring counties , it is again of enormous thickness , but more regularly bedded , and of less mechanical struc- ture than in Scotland . In the regions above ...
... less con- tinuous , and is more degenerate ; but in South Wales and the neighbouring counties , it is again of enormous thickness , but more regularly bedded , and of less mechanical struc- ture than in Scotland . In the regions above ...
Andre udgaver - Se alle
Almindelige termer og sætninger
admiration Ameer Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon literature appear believe Bokhara British called Captain Grover century character Charlemagne Christian Church civilization Colonel Stoddart confession court death doubt duties Emilia Galotti England English Europe evidence existence fact favour feeling feudal Feuerbach France genius German give Guizot Harley Heimskringla Herat honour Iceland influence Khiva King Kleinschrot Kokand Konrad labour language less letter liberty literature living Lord Aberdeen Lord Chesterfield Lord Mahon Luther ment mind Molière moral murder nations nature never Nootka Sound convention object oolites organic Pagan perhaps period person philosophy poetry political present principle prisoner produced question racter readers remarkable Riembauer Roman Saxon Scandinavian seems society species spirit Tamboff Tartuffe tell Teutonic thing thought tion Tory true truth Wagner Whigs whole writings
Populære passager
Side 106 - Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Side 504 - he is a middle.sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark-brown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Side 79 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Side 258 - ... that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of the said country...
Side 202 - 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.
Side 425 - I was an absolute pedant : when I talked my best, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial ; and when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid.
Side 37 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made them and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Side 277 - And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire ; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Side 437 - The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
Side 449 - Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company, — this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.