The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volym 92A. Constable, 1850 |
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... labour of his whole life may not suffice to restore his property . ' It was on such considerations that Daniel Bernouilli was led to propose , as a rule for estimating the value of a very small pecuniary or other material advantage ...
... labour of his whole life may not suffice to restore his property . ' It was on such considerations that Daniel Bernouilli was led to propose , as a rule for estimating the value of a very small pecuniary or other material advantage ...
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... labour . The wants of the day , when unrelieved by toil , stifle the sense of shame and dignity . Habitual privation enhances occasional ex- cess ; and he , who is the slave at once of necessity and indul- gence , becomes the apt and ...
... labour . The wants of the day , when unrelieved by toil , stifle the sense of shame and dignity . Habitual privation enhances occasional ex- cess ; and he , who is the slave at once of necessity and indul- gence , becomes the apt and ...
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... labour of his own life and his bequest to his political pupil and successor . No taunt was ever less appli- cable to its object than Lucan's reproach to Cæsar - that he delighted to advance over the breach and ruins of the constitu ...
... labour of his own life and his bequest to his political pupil and successor . No taunt was ever less appli- cable to its object than Lucan's reproach to Cæsar - that he delighted to advance over the breach and ruins of the constitu ...
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... labour was the mark of the slave , a multitude of free men , steeped in the lowest poverty , found a bare subsistence in their idleness ' from this annual sale of their highest privilege , and presented ' ready instruments for any ...
... labour was the mark of the slave , a multitude of free men , steeped in the lowest poverty , found a bare subsistence in their idleness ' from this annual sale of their highest privilege , and presented ' ready instruments for any ...
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... labours of his most recent and able predecessor in the field of Roman annals . It is honourable to the Universities , and it is agreeable to re- member that Oxford and Cambridge have , in one generation , contributed to historical ...
... labours of his most recent and able predecessor in the field of Roman annals . It is honourable to the Universities , and it is agreeable to re- member that Oxford and Cambridge have , in one generation , contributed to historical ...
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Sida 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!
Sida 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?
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.