The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen34A. Constable, 1820 |
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... interest of the people was concerned : Rebel- lious , during the minorities of Louis XIII . and Louis XIV . , they raised armies against the latter when a child , but were perfectly obedient to these monarchs in the zenith of their ...
... interest of the people was concerned : Rebel- lious , during the minorities of Louis XIII . and Louis XIV . , they raised armies against the latter when a child , but were perfectly obedient to these monarchs in the zenith of their ...
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... interest of the multitude , though certainly not with their true interest , and favours their strongest propensities . The rabble of Constantinople know no superior between them and the Sul- tan or his immediate vicegerents ; no ...
... interest of the multitude , though certainly not with their true interest , and favours their strongest propensities . The rabble of Constantinople know no superior between them and the Sul- tan or his immediate vicegerents ; no ...
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... interest or influence in the country ; and we are persuaded that the con- stitutional fine cloak , hat and plume , à la Henri IV . , might be shifted to the heads and shoulders of any other set of wor- thy old gentlemen , without the ...
... interest or influence in the country ; and we are persuaded that the con- stitutional fine cloak , hat and plume , à la Henri IV . , might be shifted to the heads and shoulders of any other set of wor- thy old gentlemen , without the ...
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... interests , which can alone give solidity and duration to liberal institutions . -People who are not trusted with the administration of the internal affairs of their own village , and are under perpetual guardianship for their most ...
... interests , which can alone give solidity and duration to liberal institutions . -People who are not trusted with the administration of the internal affairs of their own village , and are under perpetual guardianship for their most ...
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... interests , and giving to each cluster its special representation . We incline decidedly to their opinion ; and the difficulties in the way of realizing it would be no reason for despairing of success , with a people less impatient and ...
... interests , and giving to each cluster its special representation . We incline decidedly to their opinion ; and the difficulties in the way of realizing it would be no reason for despairing of success , with a people less impatient and ...
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Página 200 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Página 152 - He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn. But it, too, was gone. A large, rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping windows, some of them broken and mended with old hats and petticoats, and over the door was painted, "The Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle.
Página 149 - For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third.
Página 150 - Rip Van Winkle ! Rip Van Winkle!" At the same time, Wolf bristled up his back, and giving a low growl, skulked to his master's side, looking fearfully down into the glen. Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him. He looked anxiously in the same direction and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks, and bending under the weight of something he carried on his back. He was surprised to see any human being in this lonely and unfrequented place ; but supposing it to be some one...
Página 154 - ... dreading the tyranny of Dame Van Winkle. Whenever her name was mentioned, however, he shook his head, shrugged his shoulders, and cast up his eyes ; which might pass either for an expression of resignation to his fate or joy at his deliverance. He used to tell his story to every stranger that arrived at Mr. Doolittle's hotel.
Página 200 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn...
Página 154 - Ah, poor man, Rip Van Winkle was his name, but it's twenty years since he went away from home with his gun, and never has been heard of since,— his dog came home without him; but whether he shot himself, or was carried away by the Indians, nobody can tell. I was then but a little girl.
Página 148 - Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country.
Página 151 - ... round. Their dress, too, was of a different fashion from that to which he was accustomed. They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise, and, whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence...
Página 150 - On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at nine-pins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion : some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long...