The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 46A. Constable, 1827 |
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... manner of the famous silk mill erected by Sir Thomas Lombe . Having made several additional discoveries and improvements in the processes of carding , roving , and spinning , he took out a fresh patent for the whole in 1775 ; * and thus ...
... manner of the famous silk mill erected by Sir Thomas Lombe . Having made several additional discoveries and improvements in the processes of carding , roving , and spinning , he took out a fresh patent for the whole in 1775 ; * and thus ...
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... manner , the evi- dence that had been given by Kay and others , with respect to the originality of the invention . The Court , however , refused to grant a new trial , on the ground , that whatever might be the fact , as to the question ...
... manner , the evi- dence that had been given by Kay and others , with respect to the originality of the invention . The Court , however , refused to grant a new trial , on the ground , that whatever might be the fact , as to the question ...
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... manner . For it is a fact , that a large factory , erected by Sir Richard Arkwright at Birkacre , near Chorley in Lanca- shire , was destroyed by a mob , collected from the adjacent country , in the presence of a powerful body of police ...
... manner . For it is a fact , that a large factory , erected by Sir Richard Arkwright at Birkacre , near Chorley in Lanca- shire , was destroyed by a mob , collected from the adjacent country , in the presence of a powerful body of police ...
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... manner , the population of Blackburn has increas- ed from 11,980 in 1801 , to 21,940 in 1821 ; that of Bolton has increased in the same period , from 17,416 to 39,616 ; that of Wigan , from 10,989 to 17,716 , & c . But the progress of ...
... manner , the population of Blackburn has increas- ed from 11,980 in 1801 , to 21,940 in 1821 ; that of Bolton has increased in the same period , from 17,416 to 39,616 ; that of Wigan , from 10,989 to 17,716 , & c . But the progress of ...
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... manners . But , notwithstanding this vast difference in the circumstances of the two counties , the proportion of deaths to the whole population in Westmoreland is only about FIVE per cent less than in Lancashire ! The baptisms are in ...
... manners . But , notwithstanding this vast difference in the circumstances of the two counties , the proportion of deaths to the whole population in Westmoreland is only about FIVE per cent less than in Lancashire ! The baptisms are in ...
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Page 169 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established by law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? — King or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 276 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 187 - He has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible ; crushing in pieces the hardest problems; piercing into the most hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant: an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being; wandering through Infinitude, and summoning before us, in its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror: a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled...
Page 188 - True humour springs not more from the head than from the heart ; it is not contempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Page 17 - ENCYCLOPEDIA of AGRICULTURE: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo.
Page 283 - Where popular discontents have been very prevalent; it may well be affirmed and supported, that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of Government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.
Page 180 - ... age, will not seem thrown away. Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him,, we think, that has reached this country, is his saying, imported by Madame de Stael, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics: — 'Providence has given to the ' French the empire of the land, to the English that of the ' sea, to the Germans that of — the air...
Page 284 - The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It was designed as a control for the people.
Page 276 - A species of men to whom a state of order would become a sentence of obscurity, are nourished into a dangerous magnitude by the heat of intestine disturbances ; and it is no wonder that, by a sort of sinister piety, they cherish, in their turn, the disorders which are the parents of all their consequence.
Page 174 - Though I do not pretend to have the power of changing Mr. Pitt's opinion, when thus unfortunately fixed, yet I shall hope his sense of duty will prevent his retiring from his present situation to the end of my life; for I can with great truth assert that I shall, from public and private considerations, feel great regret if I shall ever find myself obliged at any time, from a sense of religious and political duty, to yield to his entreaties of retiring from his seat at the Board of Treasury.