The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 181A. Constable, 1895 |
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Page 28
... authority controls its extraneous agents , it is the improvement of the central authority itself , the formation of just habits of thought ; it is that we should be more modest and less arrogant ; it is that we shall uniformly regard ...
... authority controls its extraneous agents , it is the improvement of the central authority itself , the formation of just habits of thought ; it is that we should be more modest and less arrogant ; it is that we shall uniformly regard ...
Page 61
... authorities , as private persons are still fond of doing , and ending , as such letters generally end now , in imperfectly disguised requests for some good thing ; ' inventories of stores found in captured ships ; translations of ...
... authorities , as private persons are still fond of doing , and ending , as such letters generally end now , in imperfectly disguised requests for some good thing ; ' inventories of stores found in captured ships ; translations of ...
Page 62
... authority , as " the more particular relation " with which he proposed " at better leisure " to supplement " the brief abstract of accidents " sent to Walsyngham on August 7. It must , however , be remembered that this is only ...
... authority , as " the more particular relation " with which he proposed " at better leisure " to supplement " the brief abstract of accidents " sent to Walsyngham on August 7. It must , however , be remembered that this is only ...
Page 115
... authority of dreams , and of warnings . But at least do not let the public believe that in the voice of the Society they hear the voice of Science . Many strange stories are recorded in the bulky ' Proceed- ' ings ' of the last thirteen ...
... authority of dreams , and of warnings . But at least do not let the public believe that in the voice of the Society they hear the voice of Science . Many strange stories are recorded in the bulky ' Proceed- ' ings ' of the last thirteen ...
Page 121
... authority of the privy council . The delays and the decencies ' of the larger body were not suited to the temper , the talents , or the designs of Charles II . The failure of Sir W. Temple to infuse fresh life into a reorganised privy ...
... authority of the privy council . The delays and the decencies ' of the larger body were not suited to the temper , the talents , or the designs of Charles II . The failure of Sir W. Temple to infuse fresh life into a reorganised privy ...
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