The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 92A. Constable, 1850 |
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... Learned jargon such an audience will not endure . Charlatanerie of every description it can detect and chastise . Common - sense statement driven home by pointed illustration , and an earnest endeavour to inform , are what it eagerly ...
... Learned jargon such an audience will not endure . Charlatanerie of every description it can detect and chastise . Common - sense statement driven home by pointed illustration , and an earnest endeavour to inform , are what it eagerly ...
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... careful diet . Different kinds of treatment have less influence on mortality than is generally supposed . A respected and learned man , Dr. Haw- 1850 . Statistics . 55 kins , thus expresses himself 54 July , Quetelet on Probabilities .
... careful diet . Different kinds of treatment have less influence on mortality than is generally supposed . A respected and learned man , Dr. Haw- 1850 . Statistics . 55 kins , thus expresses himself 54 July , Quetelet on Probabilities .
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... learned the English were no longer ignorant barbarians . Mr. Merivale's translations need not shrink from comparison with any productions of the kind ; and the mastery over Latin idiom which they display has been of no small service to ...
... learned the English were no longer ignorant barbarians . Mr. Merivale's translations need not shrink from comparison with any productions of the kind ; and the mastery over Latin idiom which they display has been of no small service to ...
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... learned corporations , and to the narrow round of studies , until lately , upheld by the other . We trust that the example will not be thrown away , and that our literature , in its graver departments at least , will be recruited from ...
... learned corporations , and to the narrow round of studies , until lately , upheld by the other . We trust that the example will not be thrown away , and that our literature , in its graver departments at least , will be recruited from ...
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... learned professions or to advance in the army or navy has in like manner become more difficult than heretofore to men of humble station . The country grammar school no longer affords the facilities that it did to the son of the small ...
... learned professions or to advance in the army or navy has in like manner become more difficult than heretofore to men of humble station . The country grammar school no longer affords the facilities that it did to the son of the small ...
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Alburquerque Aleppo ancient Anglo-Saxon appears baptism Bishop Bishop of Exeter Cæsar Castile catalogue cause century character Christian Church of England Cicero civilisation classes Clytemnestra Colonel Mure constitution constitutional monarchy critics English English Revolution Euphrates evidence expression fact favour feeling France French genius Göthe Greek Homer honour Horace Iliad inquiry interest King labour language Latin less literary literature Maria de Padilla means ment mind modern moral nation nature never object observation once opinion original Panizzi party peculiar Pedro perhaps Pericles period persons philosophical poem poet political popular population practical present principles probably question Quetelet racter reader regard religion religious remarkable respect Revolution Roman Rome says schools slave trade social society spirit success supposed Tasso things tion translation truth Voltaire volume whole words writers XCII
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Seite 352 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Seite 276 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Seite 327 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Seite 90 - Stoop then, and wash. — How many ages hence, Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn, and accents yet unknown ? Bru.
Seite 332 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.
Seite 347 - This is a misery much to be lamented ; for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but, were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Seite 557 - To the inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense, Though void of corporal sense.