The Schoolmaster, and Edinburgh Weekly Magazine, Volumes 1-2John Anderson [for John Johnstone], 1832 - Scottish periodicals |
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Could you not very safely leave the attack on the fore , not merely safe , but most
wholesome for the commuinduce the people to take part in these discussions , is
, thereSociety for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge to the nity , and yet some ...
Could you not very safely leave the attack on the fore , not merely safe , but most
wholesome for the commuinduce the people to take part in these discussions , is
, thereSociety for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge to the nity , and yet some ...
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The interest , press would allow , yet we were fully aware of the indeed , which
belongs to political discussions , is great importance of diffusing a knowledge of
the often temporary and dependent on circumstances , Sciences , in general ...
The interest , press would allow , yet we were fully aware of the indeed , which
belongs to political discussions , is great importance of diffusing a knowledge of
the often temporary and dependent on circumstances , Sciences , in general ...
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has certain properties inherent in it ; and it pos- | is the knowledge of science , of
the laws to which sesses these properties by a law , or laws , of the the numerous
substances in nature have been subAlmighty . One of its properties is , that it ...
has certain properties inherent in it ; and it pos- | is the knowledge of science , of
the laws to which sesses these properties by a law , or laws , of the the numerous
substances in nature have been subAlmighty . One of its properties is , that it ...
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Those who object to these views , imagine that after the , that we can be happy
here only by becoming acquainted human race has acquired knowledge of all
the natural with the qualities and modes of action of our own minds laws , if such
a ...
Those who object to these views , imagine that after the , that we can be happy
here only by becoming acquainted human race has acquired knowledge of all
the natural with the qualities and modes of action of our own minds laws , if such
a ...
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Cheap political knowledge should be only bring about the sudden destruction of
him , we should widely disseminated , because it would conduce to the welfare
be insane enough to make it . " and interests of the people :Such are the ...
Cheap political knowledge should be only bring about the sudden destruction of
him , we should widely disseminated , because it would conduce to the welfare
be insane enough to make it . " and interests of the people :Such are the ...
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Page 273 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory...
Page 30 - Ho ! maidens of Vienna ; ho ! matrons of Lucerne ; Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall return. Ho ! Philip, send, for charity, thy Mexican pistoles, That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's souls.
Page 290 - Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few.
Page 82 - The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community then is, what? — the sum of the interests of the several members who compose it.
Page 298 - Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be!
Page 30 - Bartholomew," was passed from man to man ; But out spake gentle Henry, "No Frenchman is my foe : Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Page 290 - Tis to work and have such pay As just keeps life from day to day In your limbs, as in a cell For the tyrants...
Page 30 - D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags, and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and, all along our van, "Remember St. Bartholomew,
Page 30 - Flemish spears. There rode the brood of false Lorraine, the curses of our land ! And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand ; And, as we looked on them, we thought of Seine's...
Page 268 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again ; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain ! But when I speak— thou dost not say What thou ne'er left'st unsaid...