The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 88A. Constable, 1848 |
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... stars , and greatly furthered the studies of surgery and chemistry , Aristotle had embraced the world of science , and begun the en- cyclopedic pursuit of knowledge . The Alexandrian professors divided the empire of the Stageirite , as ...
... stars , and greatly furthered the studies of surgery and chemistry , Aristotle had embraced the world of science , and begun the en- cyclopedic pursuit of knowledge . The Alexandrian professors divided the empire of the Stageirite , as ...
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... stars with their latitudes and longitudes measured from the equinoctial point . Geography and medicine made equal strides , and the activity of the Grecian mind was diverted from a ceaseless round of unprofitable dialectics into healthy ...
... stars with their latitudes and longitudes measured from the equinoctial point . Geography and medicine made equal strides , and the activity of the Grecian mind was diverted from a ceaseless round of unprofitable dialectics into healthy ...
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... stars ; which would not have existed , if they had not been wanted by some beings beyond our jurisdiction , and in some place beyond our ken . ' ast coffergus T ART . III . 1. Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes , down to the ...
... stars ; which would not have existed , if they had not been wanted by some beings beyond our jurisdiction , and in some place beyond our ken . ' ast coffergus T ART . III . 1. Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes , down to the ...
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... stars . After her brother's death , in 1822 , she retired to her native city , where she continued to enjoy , in a green old age , the respect and regard of her friends and relatives , the just honours paid her by the king and royal ...
... stars . After her brother's death , in 1822 , she retired to her native city , where she continued to enjoy , in a green old age , the respect and regard of her friends and relatives , the just honours paid her by the king and royal ...
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... stars , which is given in the ' Philosophical Transactions ' for that year , and also in six catalogues of double stars , which are to be found in different volumes of the Memoirs of the Astronomical Society . ' Of the first class of ...
... stars , which is given in the ' Philosophical Transactions ' for that year , and also in six catalogues of double stars , which are to be found in different volumes of the Memoirs of the Astronomical Society . ' Of the first class of ...
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Page 217 - Here lies poet Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor poll.
Page 296 - Political economy, considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator, proposes two distinct objects : first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or, more properly, to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves ; and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue sufficient for the public services. It proposes to enrich both the people and the sovereign.
Page 181 - Will you then give your faithful diligence always so to minister the doctrine and sacraments, and the discipline of Christ, as the Lord hath commanded, and as this Church and Realm hath received the same...
Page 360 - ... we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Page 14 - Turner's Sacred History of the World, attempted to be Philosophically considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son.
Page 509 - Pray, madam, let this farce be played. The Archbishop will act it very well. You may bid him be as short as you will. It will do the Queen no hurt, no more than any good; and it will satisfy all the wise and good fools, who will call us all atheists if we don't pretend to be as great fools as they are.
Page 315 - ... it is the law of production from the land, that, in any given state of agricultural skill and knowledge...
Page 349 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
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Page 341 - Seven years, my Lord,' have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.