The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 243A. Constable, 1926 |
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... buildings , stocks in trade , and not merely to actual currency or money owed and owing . This is a platitude to any ... building , goods and all forms of property , and everything must be set out in the terms of the common denominator ...
... buildings , stocks in trade , and not merely to actual currency or money owed and owing . This is a platitude to any ... building , goods and all forms of property , and everything must be set out in the terms of the common denominator ...
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... build groundless hopes upon high - sounding words . " The Emperor Alexander himself , he added , " preached a magnanimous doctrine " and so set the fashion . * Gordon was right in thinking that it did not follow necessarily that the ...
... build groundless hopes upon high - sounding words . " The Emperor Alexander himself , he added , " preached a magnanimous doctrine " and so set the fashion . * Gordon was right in thinking that it did not follow necessarily that the ...
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... countenanced such an undertaking . As for Napoleon , it was in Europe that he sought to build up a larger France , and the results of his policy of expansion are well - known . In 1830 there remained ¡ 1926 85 FRANCE IN NORTH AFRICA.
... countenanced such an undertaking . As for Napoleon , it was in Europe that he sought to build up a larger France , and the results of his policy of expansion are well - known . In 1830 there remained ¡ 1926 85 FRANCE IN NORTH AFRICA.
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... building castles in the air and entertaining fantastic ambitions , and to make quite sure that he would take no steps on his own account , half his troops were withdrawn from his command and sent home . Finally he was superseded in ...
... building castles in the air and entertaining fantastic ambitions , and to make quite sure that he would take no steps on his own account , half his troops were withdrawn from his command and sent home . Finally he was superseded in ...
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... building operations , and so forth . One letter refers to the building of temples to Isis , to Serapis and to the Dioscuri ; another instructs Zeno to show a distinguished visitor named Anticritus round the town and point out the ...
... building operations , and so forth . One letter refers to the building of temples to Isis , to Serapis and to the Dioscuri ; another instructs Zeno to show a distinguished visitor named Anticritus round the town and point out the ...
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Página 255 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Página 40 - To refrain from taking advantage of conditions in China in order to seek special rights or privileges which would abridge the rights of subjects or citizens of friendly states, and from countenancing action inimical to the security of such states.
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Página 254 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's. isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown : The heathen in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone.
Página 152 - ... a new species of writing, that might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance-writing, and dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue.
Página 392 - By this we taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth ; we shine in silks which our hands have never wrought ; we drink of vineyards which we never planted.
Página 266 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Página 345 - Do thou teach me not only to foresee, but to enjoy, nay, even to feed on future praise. Comfort me by a solemn assurance, that when the little parlour in which I sit at this instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with honour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.
Página 149 - A sly sinner, creeping along the very edges of the walks, getting behind benches : one hand in his bosom, the other held up to his chin, as if to keep it in its place : afraid of being seen, as a thief of detection. The people of fashion, if he happen to cross a walk (which he always does with precipitation) unsmiling their faces, as if they thought him in...
Página 394 - All merchants shall have safe and secure conduct, to go out of, and to come into England, and to stay there and to pass as well by land as by water, for buying and selling by the ancient and allowed customs...