The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volym 48A. Constable, 1828 |
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... readers , not only as more likely to amuse them than any book of travels with which we are acquainted , but as calculated to enlighten their understandings , and to touch their hearts with a purer flame than they generally catch from ...
... readers , not only as more likely to amuse them than any book of travels with which we are acquainted , but as calculated to enlighten their understandings , and to touch their hearts with a purer flame than they generally catch from ...
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... readers against giving way to certain feelings of disappointment , which it is not impossible they may encounter at the outset of their task ; and to which two or three very innocent causes are likely enough to expose them . In the ...
... readers against giving way to certain feelings of disappointment , which it is not impossible they may encounter at the outset of their task ; and to which two or three very innocent causes are likely enough to expose them . In the ...
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... readers , is likely to be found in the extent and minuteness of the prefatory details , with which Mr Irving has ... reader , who knows already what it is to end in , feels any thing but grateful . His mind , from the very title - page ...
... readers , is likely to be found in the extent and minuteness of the prefatory details , with which Mr Irving has ... reader , who knows already what it is to end in , feels any thing but grateful . His mind , from the very title - page ...
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... readers the following brief but graphic sketch of his character and appearance at that period : ' He was at that time in the full vigour of manhood , and of an en- gaging presence . Minute descriptions are given of his person by his son ...
... readers the following brief but graphic sketch of his character and appearance at that period : ' He was at that time in the full vigour of manhood , and of an en- gaging presence . Minute descriptions are given of his person by his son ...
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... readers to whom they may seem tedious - and believe , at all events , that we have now given a large enough specimen of the kind of beauty they present . For persons of a different taste we ought to have extracted some account of the ...
... readers to whom they may seem tedious - and believe , at all events , that we have now given a large enough specimen of the kind of beauty they present . For persons of a different taste we ought to have extracted some account of the ...
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Sida 193 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Sida 15 - London's Encyclopaedia of Agriculture: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo. 31s. 6d. London's Encyclopaedia of Gardening : comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape Gardening.
Sida 282 - Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the /Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities : a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave.
Sida 289 - A wish (I mind its power), A wish, that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast, — That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Sida 9 - The breeze had been fresh all day, with more sea than usual, and they had made great progress. At sunset they had stood again to the west, and were ploughing the waves at a rapid rate, the Pinta keeping the lead, from her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout the ships ; not an eye was closed that night. As the evening darkened, Columbus took his station on the top of the castle or cabin on the high poop of his vessel.
Sida 178 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarcely be folly in that of a great kingdom.
Sida 61 - LANZI'S History of Painting In Italy, from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the i8th Century.
Sida 297 - ... their time and country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness, but without the least intrusive forwardness ; and when he differed in opinion, he did not hesitate to express it firmly, yet at the same time with modesty. I do not remember any part of his conversation distinctly enough to be quoted ; nor did I ever see him again, except in the street, where he did not recognise me, as I could not expect he should. He was much caressed in Edinburgh : but (considering what literary emoluments...
Sida 297 - I never saw a man in company with his superiors in station or information more perfectly free from either the reality or the affectation of embarrassment. I was told, but did not observe it, that his address to females was extremely deferential, and always with a turn either to the pathetic or humorous, which engaged their attention particularly. I have heard the late Duchess of Gordon remark this. — I do not know anything I can add to these recollections of forty years since...
Sida 282 - I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.