Selections from the Edinburgh Review: Comprising the Best Articles in that Journal, from Its Commencement to the Present Time with a Preliminary Dissertation and Explanatory Notes. IVBaudry, 1835 - 392 pages |
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... PRINCIPLES , AND TENDENCY OF THE EDINBURGH REVIEW . THE publication of the Edinburgh Review has been justly regarded as forming an important epoch in the history of periodical literature . No critical and political journal ever obtained ...
... PRINCIPLES , AND TENDENCY OF THE EDINBURGH REVIEW . THE publication of the Edinburgh Review has been justly regarded as forming an important epoch in the history of periodical literature . No critical and political journal ever obtained ...
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... principles were not popular ; but all admired the erudition and talent displayed in their advocacy . His " News from the Republic of Letters " was warmly supported by the public , and may still be resorted to as a rich source of * An ...
... principles were not popular ; but all admired the erudition and talent displayed in their advocacy . His " News from the Republic of Letters " was warmly supported by the public , and may still be resorted to as a rich source of * An ...
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... principles and free institutions . The critical department was under the special management of Dr. Stuart and Mr. Smellie . Un- fortunately , however , many of Dr. Stuart's articles are chargeable with unjust severity , and are not ...
... principles and free institutions . The critical department was under the special management of Dr. Stuart and Mr. Smellie . Un- fortunately , however , many of Dr. Stuart's articles are chargeable with unjust severity , and are not ...
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... principles and rea- sonings upon which the enquiry should have been conducted . In con- sequence of this mechanical method of reviewing , critical journals were of use only to book - collectors . In their political department there was ...
... principles and rea- sonings upon which the enquiry should have been conducted . In con- sequence of this mechanical method of reviewing , critical journals were of use only to book - collectors . In their political department there was ...
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... principles in every department of political science . But before entering into an examination of its literary and poli- tical merits , it may be useful to offer a few remarks on the particulars in which it differed from the Reviews ...
... principles in every department of political science . But before entering into an examination of its literary and poli- tical merits , it may be useful to offer a few remarks on the particulars in which it differed from the Reviews ...
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SELECTIONS FROM THE EDINBURGH, Volume 1 Maurice Cross,Thomas Babington Macaulay Bar Macaulay No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 318 - twere, anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 317 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful ! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learned the language of another world.
Page 313 - Bui we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what they name not to themselves, And trust not to each other.
Page 412 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!
Page 314 - It is not noon — the sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail. The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.
Page 344 - How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too...
Page 399 - ... imitation of their great leader. For some years the Minerva press sent forth no novel without a mysterious, unhappy, Lara-like peer. The number of hopeful undergraduates and medical students who became things of dark imaginings, on whom the freshness of the heart ceased to fall like dew, whose passions had consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation.
Page 380 - The young peer had great intellectual powers ; yet there was an unsound part in his mind. He had naturally a generous and feeling heart : but his temper was wayward and irritable.
Page 332 - Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! HUMAN LIFE.
Page 316 - One of the blessed — and that I shall die ; For hitherto all hateful things conspire To bind me in existence — in a life Which makes me shrink from immortality — A future like the past.