Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - 733 páginas |
De dentro do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 99
Página xiii
... period , to have persevered in well - or in ill doing ! But I was by no means equally alert in the service during all the intermediate time . I was sole Editor , from 1803 till late in 1829 ; and during that period was no doubt a large ...
... period , to have persevered in well - or in ill doing ! But I was by no means equally alert in the service during all the intermediate time . I was sole Editor , from 1803 till late in 1829 ; and during that period was no doubt a large ...
Página xvii
... periods before and after , did my party principles ( or prejudices or predilec- tions ) sit so loosely upon me , as that I should ever have agreed to lay them aside , or to desist from their assertion , merely to secure the assistance ...
... periods before and after , did my party principles ( or prejudices or predilec- tions ) sit so loosely upon me , as that I should ever have agreed to lay them aside , or to desist from their assertion , merely to secure the assistance ...
Página 16
... period , and to how great an extent , the inherent difficulties of the subject were felt , and produced their appropriate effects . There are some hints on these subjects in the works of Xenophon ; and some scattered observations in ...
... period , and to how great an extent , the inherent difficulties of the subject were felt , and produced their appropriate effects . There are some hints on these subjects in the works of Xenophon ; and some scattered observations in ...
Página 34
... periods of youth , and the clear and blooming complexion , which indicates health and activity , had been in fact the forms and colours by which old age and sickness were characterised ; and that instead of being found united to those ...
... periods of youth , and the clear and blooming complexion , which indicates health and activity , had been in fact the forms and colours by which old age and sickness were characterised ; and that instead of being found united to those ...
Página 39
... periods of renovation , and the hopes that dart spontaneously forward into the new circle of exertions and enjoyments that is opened up by her hand and her example . Such are some of the conceptions that are forced upon us by the ...
... periods of renovation , and the hopes that dart spontaneously forward into the new circle of exertions and enjoyments that is opened up by her hand and her example . Such are some of the conceptions that are forced upon us by the ...
Outras edições - Ver todos
Termos e frases comuns
admiration affections appears beauty BENJAMIN FRANKLIN bien Bressuire c'est Celbridge character colours Columbus court degree delight doubt elle eloquence emotions England étoit être eyes fait favour feelings force fortune France French French Revolution friends genius give hand happiness heart hommes honour human imagination interest j'ai King labour lady less letters literature living Lord Lord Treasurer Lothario Madame de Staël Madame du Deffand MADEMOISELLE DE LESPINASSE manner ment mind Montesquieu moral n'est nation nature never noble objects observations occasion opinion original party passion peculiar perhaps persons Philina philosophy pleasure poetry political present qu'elle qu'il qu'on racter readers remarkable republican rien scarcely scene seems sentiments society sort spirit Stella style Swift talent taste thing thought tion tout truth Vanessa Voltaire Whig whole Wilhelm writings
Passagens mais conhecidas
Página 400 - is fought ; His work of glory done. " It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock. " His sword was in its sheath; His fingers held the pen, "When Kempenfelt went down, With twice four hundred men.
Página 493 - 13th. I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered ; which was done there ; he looking as cheerful ! as any man could do in that condition. — 18th. This morning, it being expected that Colonel Hacker and Axtell should die, I went to Newgate,
Página 285 - to be composed. An oak-tree is planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom ; the roots expand, the jar is shivered ! A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear, and must not cast away. All
Página 179 - Rotterdam. He stopped F. Gwynne, Esq., going in with the red bag to the Queen, and told him aloud he had something to say to him from my Lord Treasurer. He talked with the son of Dr. Davenant to be sent abroad, and took out his pocket-book, and wrote down
Página 179 - and had a bow from every body but me. When I came to the antichamber to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as a master of requests. lie was soliciting the Earl of Arran
Página 150 - vase — the British empire ; for I knew that, being once broken, the separate parts could not retain even their share of the strength and value that existed in the whole; and that a perfect re-union of those parts could scarce ever be hoped for. Your Lordship may possibly remember the tears of joy that wetted my
Página 305 - Haifa dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them ; and both mothers and daughters used to be pleased with the observations they put me upon making. '• I was not
Página 179 - for,' says he, 'the author shall not begin to print till / have a thousand guineas for him." Lord Treasurer, after leaving the Queen, came through the room, beckoning Dr. Swift to follow him: both went off just before
Página 422 - we think they must immediately feel the propriety. " I have heard before of a room, with a floor laid upon springs, and such like things with so much art, in every part, that when you went in, you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace,
Página 402 - of it at this moment. Talk not of an inn ; mention it not for your life. We have never had so many visitors, but we could easily accommodate them all, though we have received Unwin, and his wife, and his sister, and his son, all at once. My dear, I will not let