The National Quarterly Review, Volumes 11-12Pudney & Russell, 1865 |
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... sound acquaintance with the subject . The in- vestigations seem to have been conducted with the facility of the dilettante , rather than with the laborious graspings of the trustworthy historian ; still the life has the merit of being ...
... sound acquaintance with the subject . The in- vestigations seem to have been conducted with the facility of the dilettante , rather than with the laborious graspings of the trustworthy historian ; still the life has the merit of being ...
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... sound wisdom . If his ends had always been lofty , still his means had ever been vast . If his conceptions of his objects were colossal , no less so were his conceptions of his tools . Thus far he had never miscalculated the adequacy of ...
... sound wisdom . If his ends had always been lofty , still his means had ever been vast . If his conceptions of his objects were colossal , no less so were his conceptions of his tools . Thus far he had never miscalculated the adequacy of ...
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... sound , uniform cir- culation , of equal value throughout the country , resting upon the foundation of national credit combined with pri- vate capital ; intended to effect a transition from a 70 [ June , UNITED STATES BANKING SYSTEM ,
... sound , uniform cir- culation , of equal value throughout the country , resting upon the foundation of national credit combined with pri- vate capital ; intended to effect a transition from a 70 [ June , UNITED STATES BANKING SYSTEM ,
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... office . Already he had gained an enviable reputation as an admirable scholar , a sound critic , and a judicious commen- tator upon history and political science . If in parliament 96 [ June , PHASES OF ENGLISH STATESMANSHIP .
... office . Already he had gained an enviable reputation as an admirable scholar , a sound critic , and a judicious commen- tator upon history and political science . If in parliament 96 [ June , PHASES OF ENGLISH STATESMANSHIP .
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... sound principles of government . But their most grievous complaint against him was his acceptance of office in 1807. The king dismissed the whig ministry because they would not give certain pledges regarding the Roman Cath- olic ...
... sound principles of government . But their most grievous complaint against him was his acceptance of office in 1807. The king dismissed the whig ministry because they would not give certain pledges regarding the Roman Cath- olic ...
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Page 16 - For there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapt in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you, and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shakescene in a...
Page 14 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 261 - Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging that he ne'er obliged ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 253 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 259 - But why then publish ? Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write; Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise, And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield, read; Even mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more.
Page 67 - To exercise by its board of directors, or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt...
Page 19 - Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
Page 268 - A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith By his Daughter, LADY HOLLAND. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by MRS. AUSTIN.
Page 15 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself movest alone. Who can be a companion of thy course? The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years...
Page 403 - Arnold tells us that the meaning of culture is "to know the best that has been thought and said in the world." It is the criticism of life contained in literature. That criticism regards " Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working -to a common result...