The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 41A. Constable, 1825 |
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... History of St Domingo , from its first Discovery by Columbus , to the present Period 497 XII . Practical Observations upon the Education of the People : Addressed to the Working Classes , and their Employers . By H. Brougham , Esq ...
... History of St Domingo , from its first Discovery by Columbus , to the present Period 497 XII . Practical Observations upon the Education of the People : Addressed to the Working Classes , and their Employers . By H. Brougham , Esq ...
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... history , we shall be authorized to say proverbially , " Die like a Bour- bon , " to signify every thing magnanimous displayed by a man in his last hour . Louis XVIII . did not depart from this family intrepidity . After receiving the ...
... history , we shall be authorized to say proverbially , " Die like a Bour- bon , " to signify every thing magnanimous displayed by a man in his last hour . Louis XVIII . did not depart from this family intrepidity . After receiving the ...
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... history of the war , he wholly passes over ) , he calls upon his countrymen to bless a tutelary here- ' ditary succession , ' to which is owing the certainty of another king being always ready as soon as one dies , or , as this author ...
... history of the war , he wholly passes over ) , he calls upon his countrymen to bless a tutelary here- ' ditary succession , ' to which is owing the certainty of another king being always ready as soon as one dies , or , as this author ...
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... ( History of his Own Times , I. 91. II . 254. ) Indeed he is , of all his party , the most liberal and the least an enemy of freedom . The only stain upon his character undoubtedly is , the slavish love of Royalty which had taken such ...
... ( History of his Own Times , I. 91. II . 254. ) Indeed he is , of all his party , the most liberal and the least an enemy of freedom . The only stain upon his character undoubtedly is , the slavish love of Royalty which had taken such ...
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... history . Such , at all events , is the merit and the charm of the volumes before us . They place us at once by the side of the author — and bring before our eyes and minds the scenes he has passed through , and the feelings they ...
... history . Such , at all events , is the merit and the charm of the volumes before us . They place us at once by the side of the author — and bring before our eyes and minds the scenes he has passed through , and the feelings they ...
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Page 283 - The Sun's eye had a sickly glare. The Earth with age was wan. The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some...
Page 539 - COL. HAWKER'S INSTRUCTIONS to YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Page 282 - And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky.
Page 283 - Go, let oblivion's curtain fall Upon the stage of men, Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again. Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe ; Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.
Page 284 - His was the spell o'er hearts Which only Acting lends, — The youngest of the sister Arts, Where all their beauty blends : For ill can Poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And Painting, mute and motionless. Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, IJlusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb.
Page 87 - Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry; For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest. No more on prancing palfrey...
Page 280 - No ! imaged in the sanctuary of your breast, There let me smile, amidst high thoughts at rest ; And let contentment on your spirit shine, As if its peace were still a part of mine : For, if you war not proudly with your pain, For you I shall have worse than lived in vain. But I conjure your manliness to bear My loss with noble spirit — not despair ; I ask you by our love to promise this, And kiss these words, where I have left a kiss, — The latest from my living lips for yours.
Page 284 - Even I am weary in yon skies To watch thy fading fire; Test of all sumless agonies, Behold not me expire. My lips, that speak thy dirge of death, — Their rounded gasp and gurgling breath To see thou shalt not boast. The eclipse of Nature spreads my pall, The majesty of darkness shall Receive my parting ghost!
Page 431 - Threaten these things to rich and dainty folk, which are clothed in purple, fare deliciously, and have their chiefest hope in this world, for we esteem them not, but are joyful that for the discharge of our duties we are driven hence ; and, with thanks to God, we know the way to heaven to be as ready by water as by land, and therefore we care not which way we go.
Page 101 - The only part of this plan which appears at all objectionable, is the restriction upon politics. Why should not political, as well as all other works, be published in a cheap form, and in Numbers? That history, the nature of the constitution, the doctrines of political economy, may safely be disseminated in this shape, no man now-a-days will be hardy enough to deny. Popular tracts, indeed, on the latter subject, ought to be much more extensively circulated for the good of the working classes, as...