The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 108A. Constable, 1858 |
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... thought not less clear of progress and preparation in the other . " The reasoning brain would have been wholly at fault in a scene of things in which it could neither foresee the exterminating calamity while yet distant , nor control it ...
... thought not less clear of progress and preparation in the other . " The reasoning brain would have been wholly at fault in a scene of things in which it could neither foresee the exterminating calamity while yet distant , nor control it ...
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... thoughts were sometimes fanciful , we must be careful to distinguish between the nature of his error and that of ... thought with which he was perpetually brought in contact . Nothing can be clearer or more just than the principle on ...
... thoughts were sometimes fanciful , we must be careful to distinguish between the nature of his error and that of ... thought with which he was perpetually brought in contact . Nothing can be clearer or more just than the principle on ...
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... thought are seen leading off into the other . The ultimate ideas , traceable in the material and im- material worlds , are often identical with each other . Language , that great instrument of human thought , is a constant witness to ...
... thought are seen leading off into the other . The ultimate ideas , traceable in the material and im- material worlds , are often identical with each other . Language , that great instrument of human thought , is a constant witness to ...
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... thought , be recog- nised in other instances throughout the animal kingdom . Thus , Miller never could look a flounder in the face without being seriously disquieted by that animal's personal appearance . Its twisted eyes , wry mouth ...
... thought , be recog- nised in other instances throughout the animal kingdom . Thus , Miller never could look a flounder in the face without being seriously disquieted by that animal's personal appearance . Its twisted eyes , wry mouth ...
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... thoughts on a mul- titude of questions of literary , political , and social interest , some of which we had marked for extract , but which for the present , at least , we must leave unnoticed . Hugh Miller must , un- doubtedly , be ...
... thoughts on a mul- titude of questions of literary , political , and social interest , some of which we had marked for extract , but which for the present , at least , we must leave unnoticed . Hugh Miller must , un- doubtedly , be ...
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Page 85 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 254 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand ; Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Page 240 - I find his grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me, as any subject within this realm : howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us), it should not fail to go.
Page 127 - Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind, Let all their thoughts be unconfined, And clap your padlock on the mind.
Page 121 - CANDOUR, - which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives are the same; — And finds, with keen discriminating sight, BLACK'S not so black; - nor WHITE so very white.
Page 123 - Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U — — niversity of Gottingen, — — niversity of Gottingen.
Page 121 - Both must be blamed, both pardoned ; — 'twas just so With Fox and Pitt full forty years ago ; So Walpole, Pulteney ; — factions in all times, Have had their follies, ministers their crimes." Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the candid friend...
Page 510 - I cannot tell, but conclude they were all lost. For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me and was pushed forward by wind and tide. I...
Page 239 - ... till he waxed weary. Verily, God be thanked, I hear no harm of him now. And of all who ever came in my hand for heresy, as help me God, else had never any of them any stripe or stroke given them, so much as a fillip in the forehead...
Page 510 - Six of the Crew, of whom I was one, having let down the Boat into the Sea, [xao] made a Shift to get clear of the Ship, and the Rock.