The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 95Archibald Constable and Company, 1825 - English literature |
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... admirable science , I might say , peculiarly my own . The roughnesses of no thick or tangled herbage , if I may so speak , interposed to cloud or deceive the nicety and directness of my scien- tific touch . After pursuing , during the ...
... admirable science , I might say , peculiarly my own . The roughnesses of no thick or tangled herbage , if I may so speak , interposed to cloud or deceive the nicety and directness of my scien- tific touch . After pursuing , during the ...
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... my practised fingers , like a dexterous player on the musical - glasses , he would , I have no doubt , sink down before me in awe and admiration ; -he would believe these singular manuals of 1825 . 3 Defence of Phrenology .
... my practised fingers , like a dexterous player on the musical - glasses , he would , I have no doubt , sink down before me in awe and admiration ; -he would believe these singular manuals of 1825 . 3 Defence of Phrenology .
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and admiration ; -he would believe these singular manuals of my science were the trophies of my success in war , -that I was kindling and inflaming my courage by the sight of these awful monuments of my prowess , -like the hungry lion ...
and admiration ; -he would believe these singular manuals of my science were the trophies of my success in war , -that I was kindling and inflaming my courage by the sight of these awful monuments of my prowess , -like the hungry lion ...
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... admiration and con- viction than any profane and irreverent movements of ridicule or incredulity . I may here communicate to you , somewhat in confidence , that several of my associates - zealous and enthusiastic proselytes of this ...
... admiration and con- viction than any profane and irreverent movements of ridicule or incredulity . I may here communicate to you , somewhat in confidence , that several of my associates - zealous and enthusiastic proselytes of this ...
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... admirable and piercing acumen , and endeavour to shake myself free from anxiety or disquietude . My wife , indeed , fre- quently hints that my religion sits about me more loosely than heretofore , and fears , that , as I have lately ...
... admirable and piercing acumen , and endeavour to shake myself free from anxiety or disquietude . My wife , indeed , fre- quently hints that my religion sits about me more loosely than heretofore , and fears , that , as I have lately ...
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Page 69 - And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 579 - I have of late (but wherefore, I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and, indee'd, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.
Page 579 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Page 134 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not...
Page 434 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o
Page 429 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him, and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Page 572 - ... those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence : truths that wake, To perish never ; Which neither listlessness nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy...
Page 579 - What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Page 97 - And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
Page 300 - tis holy ground ! II. From yonder realms of empyrean day Bursts on my ear th' indignant lay : There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine, The few, whom Genius gave to shine Through every unborn age, and undiscovered clime.