The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 16Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1849 - American literature |
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... India . - See India . B. Bonaparte , Louis Napoleon . Benedictines . - See St. Benedict . F. France , Socialist Party in . - North British Review , Friedhof , " or Court of Peace , G. Goethe , Conversations with.- Westminster Review ...
... India . - See India . B. Bonaparte , Louis Napoleon . Benedictines . - See St. Benedict . F. France , Socialist Party in . - North British Review , Friedhof , " or Court of Peace , G. Goethe , Conversations with.- Westminster Review ...
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... India and Persia , through Syria and Asia Minor , stretching along the portion of Africa north of the Great Desert , and cov- ering almost the whole area of Europe . Nearly all of them have acquired a certain amount of civilization ...
... India and Persia , through Syria and Asia Minor , stretching along the portion of Africa north of the Great Desert , and cov- ering almost the whole area of Europe . Nearly all of them have acquired a certain amount of civilization ...
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... Indian islands are natives of Africa , and a large proportion of the Ne- gro population , both there and in the United States , are removed by no more than one or two descents from their African ancestors . But according to the ...
... Indian islands are natives of Africa , and a large proportion of the Ne- gro population , both there and in the United States , are removed by no more than one or two descents from their African ancestors . But according to the ...
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... Indian ; let it be deter- mined whether their hues are typical of their respective races ; or whether such va- rieties of color may not be communicated to all , as to destroy the value of the distinc- tive character founded upon ...
... Indian ; let it be deter- mined whether their hues are typical of their respective races ; or whether such va- rieties of color may not be communicated to all , as to destroy the value of the distinc- tive character founded upon ...
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... India . Even if the common origin of the Hindoo and the Germanic and other European nations should be disputed , ( which , however , cannot be attempted without overthrowing the whole fabric of modern philology , ) it will be easy to ...
... India . Even if the common origin of the Hindoo and the Germanic and other European nations should be disputed , ( which , however , cannot be attempted without overthrowing the whole fabric of modern philology , ) it will be easy to ...
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Page 202 - But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 210 - Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie ! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Page 508 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 208 - Who was it that thus cried ? Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things. Go, get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand.
Page 145 - A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity ; he is continually in for, and filling, some other body. The sun, the moon, the sea, and men and women, who are creatures of impulse, are poetical, and have about them an unchangeable attribute ; the poet has none, no identity. He is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's creatures.
Page 15 - Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Page 145 - I am a member ; that sort distinguished from the Wordsworthian, or egotistical Sublime ; which is a thing per se, and stands alone), it is not itself — it has no self- -It is every thing and nothing — It has no character...
Page 205 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Page 150 - That it is so is no fault of mine. No ! — though it may sound a little paradoxical. It is as good as I had power to make it — by myself — Had I been nervous...
Page 211 - She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.