The Edinburgh Review, Volumen52A. and C. Black, 1831 |
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... object . One or two military men , of Na- poleon's school , were in some credit with the court ; but their habitual disregard of the people , and confidence in the steadiness of the army , made them the worst of all advisers , while ...
... object . One or two military men , of Na- poleon's school , were in some credit with the court ; but their habitual disregard of the people , and confidence in the steadiness of the army , made them the worst of all advisers , while ...
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... object , to slay the troops that dared oppose them - to embrace those soldiers that still remember- ed they were citizens . Several regiments of the line at once refu- sed to act ; but few joined the people . The refusal , however , was ...
... object , to slay the troops that dared oppose them - to embrace those soldiers that still remember- ed they were citizens . Several regiments of the line at once refu- sed to act ; but few joined the people . The refusal , however , was ...
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... object . His advisers , too , may be disposed to run some such risks , or at any rate to let their master encounter them . Things will last my time at all events , ' say they ; and thus mischief is hatched or counselled . But such ...
... object . His advisers , too , may be disposed to run some such risks , or at any rate to let their master encounter them . Things will last my time at all events , ' say they ; and thus mischief is hatched or counselled . But such ...
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... object , or even consent to tolerate by law any form of worship but their own . On this point they were more bigoted than even Charles , who had been brought to a reluctant acqui- escence in the toleration of sectaries ; though he still ...
... object , or even consent to tolerate by law any form of worship but their own . On this point they were more bigoted than even Charles , who had been brought to a reluctant acqui- escence in the toleration of sectaries ; though he still ...
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... object of his mission was to conduct a secret negotiation with the Scotch Commissioners in London , for which overtures had been made to the Queen by their countrymen at Paris . He found these gentlemen well disposed for peace , and ...
... object of his mission was to conduct a secret negotiation with the Scotch Commissioners in London , for which overtures had been made to the Queen by their countrymen at Paris . He found these gentlemen well disposed for peace , and ...
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Página 369 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Página 462 - ... countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
Página 496 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Página 227 - How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too ! Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry...
Página 200 - But these lead you to believe that the very perception or sensible image is the external object. Do you disclaim this principle, in order to embrace a more rational opinion, that the perceptions are only representations of something external? You here depart from your natural propensities and more obvious sentiments ; and yet are not able to satisfy your reason, which can never find any convincing argument from experience to prove, that the perceptions are connected with any external objects.
Página 169 - We have here a remarkable conflict between two contradictory opinions, wherein all mankind are engaged. On the one side stand all the vulgar, who are unpractised in philosophical researches, and guided by the uncorrupted primary instincts of nature. On the other side, stand all the Philosophers ancient and modern; every man without exception who reflects. In this division, to my great humiliation, I find myself classed with the vulgar.
Página 303 - ... the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive : their work is more costly and less productive than that of independent artists ; and the new improvements so eagerly grasped by the competition of freedom, are admitted with slow and sullen reluctance in those proud corporations, above the fear of a rival, and below the confession of an error.
Página 385 - It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature.
Página 114 - But it seems a great partiality not to perceive, that the same argument extends equally to the Deity, so far as we have any conception of him; and that the mind can at least imagine him to be non-existent, or his attributes to be altered. It must be some unknown, inconceivable qualities, which can make his non-existence appear impossible, or his attributes unalterable: And no reason can be assigned, why these qualities may not belong to matter.
Página 229 - If therefore you would not have your son the fiddle to every jovial company, without whom the sparks could not relish their wine, nor know how to pass an afternoon idly; if you would not have him...