The Quarterly Review, Volym 41–60John Murray, 1839 |
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Sida 267 - TREATISE ON THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL NATURE TO THE PHYSICAL CONDITION OF MAN, principally with reference to the supply of his wants, and the exercise of his intellectual faculties.
Sida 484 - ... speech in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right; but there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement where propriety resides and where this poet seems to have gathered his comic dialogue.
Sida 255 - MEMOIRS OF THE EMPEROR JAHANGUEIR, Written by Himself, and translated from a Persian Manuscript, By MAJOR DAVID PRICE, of the Bombay Army, &c.
Sida 263 - MAWE'S (HL) Journal of a Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, crossing the Andes in the Northern Provinces of Peru, and descending the great River Maranon.
Sida 205 - Wellington has to look to: — The Country Without a Government; or Plain Questions upon the Unhappy State of the Present Administration...
Sida 547 - ... proposed by his Lordship, 3 — defects of Dr. Chalmer's treatise, 4 — Sir Charles Bell's volume a delightful one, 5 — character of Dr. Kidd's treatise, 5 — and of Mr. Whewell's, 5 — view of the prominent topics of the magnificent theme to which these treatises are dedicated, 5, et...
Sida 443 - ... of labour. In this respect the serf, metayer, ryot, and cottier, are alike ; the terms on which they can obtain the spot of ground they cultivate determines the reward they shall receive for their personal exertions, — in other words, their real wages. The next remarkable circumstance in them is their influence in preventing the full development of the productive powers of the earth. This is a necessary consequence of the very low degree of encouragement they hold out to the increase of skill...
Sida 173 - It must be evident to every one who has given the least attention to the obvious properties of different figures, that there are only three which will admit the junction of their sides, without any vacant spaces between them — all the figures being equal and similar ; namely, the square the equilateral triangle, and the hexaedron : of these, the last is the strongest and the most convenient. In this form, then, we find that all the cells are constructed. This is a curious and wonderful fact ; and,...
Sida 443 - ... of emerging from the system of peasant occupation, stated, 92 — a relaxation of the tenure of their contract with their landlord*, or a diminution of the burdens imposed on them by the state, necessary for the relief of the peasant cultivators, 92 — the difficulty of procuring such a relaxation, considered, 93...
Sida 221 - UPON HIS MAJESTY'S GOING TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. My going to the House of Commons to demand justice upon the five members, was an act which my enemies loaded with all the obloquies and exasperations they could. It filled indifferent men with great jealousies and fears ; yea, and many of my friends resented it as a motion rising rather from passion than reason, and not guided with such...