The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 23A. Constable, 1814 |
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... human society and human intellect have ever been known to make great and memorable advances , have fol- lowed close upon periods of general agitation and disorder . Men's minds , it would appear , must be deeply and roughly stirred ...
... human society and human intellect have ever been known to make great and memorable advances , have fol- lowed close upon periods of general agitation and disorder . Men's minds , it would appear , must be deeply and roughly stirred ...
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... human being , perhaps , ever stood on so proud a pinnacle of worldly grandeur , as this insatiable conqueror at the beginning of his Russian campaign . He had done more he had acquired more -- and he possessed more , as to actual power ...
... human being , perhaps , ever stood on so proud a pinnacle of worldly grandeur , as this insatiable conqueror at the beginning of his Russian campaign . He had done more he had acquired more -- and he possessed more , as to actual power ...
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... human conquerors , -and spared with safety , in consequence of their insignificance.- Such an exhibition , we would fain hope , will rescue men for ever from that most humiliating devotion , which has hitherto so often tempted the ...
... human conquerors , -and spared with safety , in consequence of their insignificance.- Such an exhibition , we would fain hope , will rescue men for ever from that most humiliating devotion , which has hitherto so often tempted the ...
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... humanity . By their generous forbear- ance , and singular moderation , they not only put their adversary in the wrong in the eyes of all Europe , but they made him ap- pear little and ferocious in comparison ; and , while overbearing ...
... humanity . By their generous forbear- ance , and singular moderation , they not only put their adversary in the wrong in the eyes of all Europe , but they made him ap- pear little and ferocious in comparison ; and , while overbearing ...
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... humanity sickened so long , to the dead repose of another military despotism . . The restoration of the Bourbons , therefore , we conceive , was an act , not merely of wisdom , but of necessity , -or of that strong and obvious ...
... humanity sickened so long , to the dead repose of another military despotism . . The restoration of the Bourbons , therefore , we conceive , was an act , not merely of wisdom , but of necessity , -or of that strong and obvious ...
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Page 426 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 203 - Sun-burnt his cheek, his forehead high and pale The sable curls in wild profusion veil; And oft perforce his rising lip reveals The haughtier thought it curbs, but scarce conceals Though smooth his voice, and calm his general mien Still seems there something he would not have seen His features...
Page 426 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 425 - Yet a few years, we think, and all that now bless, or all that now convulse humanity, will also have perished. The mightiest pageantry of life will pass, the loudest notes of triumph or of conquest will be silent in the grave; — the wicked, wherever active, " will cease from troubling," and the weary, wherever suffering,
Page 204 - There was a laughing Devil in his sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell!
Page 211 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Page 211 - Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course and own the hues of heaven; Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
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