The Edinburgh Review, Volume 85Leonard Scott Publication Company, 1847 - English literature |
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... Feeling still hesitated to trouble the great British public about the author of Douglas , and about the men of letters with whom the Scottish dramatist had lived . In consequence , however , of being assured that the literature of his ...
... Feeling still hesitated to trouble the great British public about the author of Douglas , and about the men of letters with whom the Scottish dramatist had lived . In consequence , however , of being assured that the literature of his ...
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... feeling , which the present biography displays , the Council , we are persuaded , will not repent their choice . The really important part of these Hume papers is the Cor- respondence . It consists of upwards of five hundred letters 4 ...
... feeling , which the present biography displays , the Council , we are persuaded , will not repent their choice . The really important part of these Hume papers is the Cor- respondence . It consists of upwards of five hundred letters 4 ...
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... feelings of its writer at exactly the same age . The original of this other letter is in Trinity College , Cam- bridge . It is Milton's answer to an admonition of a friend who had been warning him that the hours of the night were ...
... feelings of its writer at exactly the same age . The original of this other letter is in Trinity College , Cam- bridge . It is Milton's answer to an admonition of a friend who had been warning him that the hours of the night were ...
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... feeling . It was a talent , too , which he never let lie idle long - except in England . It is a singular exception . But , among his many friends , there never turns up by chance a single Englishman ! His connexion with Lord Hertford ...
... feeling . It was a talent , too , which he never let lie idle long - except in England . It is a singular exception . But , among his many friends , there never turns up by chance a single Englishman ! His connexion with Lord Hertford ...
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... feelings towards his opponents by his unmeasured language , when ( years after- wards and far away ) the first thought which comes to him on the death of Jardine , is the image of the miscreants of the oppo- site party ' rejoicing over ...
... feelings towards his opponents by his unmeasured language , when ( years after- wards and far away ) the first thought which comes to him on the death of Jardine , is the image of the miscreants of the oppo- site party ' rejoicing over ...
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Page 71 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...
Page 71 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 71 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit...
Page 7 - Upon examination of these, I found a certain boldness of temper growing in me, which was not inclined to submit to any authority in these subjects, but led me to seek out some new medium, by which truth might be established. After much study and reflection on this, at last, when I was about eighteen years of age, there seemed to be opened up to me a new scene of thought, which transported me beyond measure, and made me, with an ardour natural 1o young men, throw up every other pleasure or business...
Page 69 - Did ever one make it a point of honour to speak truth to children or madmen ? If the thing were worthy being treated gravely, I should tell him that the Pythian oracle, with the approbation of Xenophon, advised every one to worship the Gods vo/*ai no\t<ut.
Page 200 - Il est injuste qu'on s'attache à moi, quoiqu'on le fasse avec plaisir et volontairement. Je tromperais ceux à qui j'en ferais naître le désir, car je ne suis la fin de personne, et n'ai pas de quoi les satisfaire.
Page 7 - You must know, then, that from my earliest infancy I found always a strong inclination to books and letters. As our college education in Scotland, extending little further than the languages, ends commonly when we are about fourteen or fifteen years of age, I was after that left to my own choice in my reading, and found it incline me almost equally to books of reasoning and philosophy, and to poetry and the polite authors. Every one who is acquainted either with the philosophers or critics knows...
Page 213 - ... of this or that conclusion, — there may yet be, from one or other of the disturbing causes adverted to, a momentary eclipse of that light in which the soul seemed to dwell ; — a momentary vibration of that judgment which we so often flattered ourselves was poised for ever. Yet this no more argues the want of habitual faith than the variations of the compass argue the severance of the connection between the magnet and the pole ; or, than the oscillations of the ' rocking stone' argue that...
Page 191 - who frame antitheses by forcing the sense, are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make just figures.
Page 447 - ... („England's Treasure by Foreign Trade. Or the Balance of our Foreign Trade is the Rule of our Treasure.