The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volumen89Archibald Constable and Company, 1822 |
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... human control . By the late act , restricting the importation of foreign corn , they have obtained for the last two years the complete monopoly of the home markets , and Parliament cannot go farther for their relief . But , say they ...
... human control . By the late act , restricting the importation of foreign corn , they have obtained for the last two years the complete monopoly of the home markets , and Parliament cannot go farther for their relief . But , say they ...
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... human nature is , how can the French , a proud and national people as they are , but be stung to the quick , by the complete and re- cently - proclaimed triumph of their enemies ? With what a pang must they look back to the past ...
... human nature is , how can the French , a proud and national people as they are , but be stung to the quick , by the complete and re- cently - proclaimed triumph of their enemies ? With what a pang must they look back to the past ...
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... human apprehension to be generally intelligible or permanently interesting . No church or state be- came dependent on its dogmas , and it sunk like a straw when the wind totally ceases . Opinions and con- troversies , when left ...
... human apprehension to be generally intelligible or permanently interesting . No church or state be- came dependent on its dogmas , and it sunk like a straw when the wind totally ceases . Opinions and con- troversies , when left ...
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... human anticipation . The accomplishment of any particu- lar object is at once converted into an ingredient , in our anticipations of better things . " Hope springs eternal in the human breast ; Man never is , but always to be , blest ...
... human anticipation . The accomplishment of any particu- lar object is at once converted into an ingredient , in our anticipations of better things . " Hope springs eternal in the human breast ; Man never is , but always to be , blest ...
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... human breed may often cross , It ne'er is tried by philosophic skill ; Base ore is often mix'd with sordid dross , Or spume and scum , which make it baser still : The epicure , tied to the glutton gross ; The stagnant lake mix'd with ...
... human breed may often cross , It ne'er is tried by philosophic skill ; Base ore is often mix'd with sordid dross , Or spume and scum , which make it baser still : The epicure , tied to the glutton gross ; The stagnant lake mix'd with ...
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Página 28 - 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; 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 but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 105 - Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile, Opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each want of happiness by hope supplied, And each vacuity of sense by pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's cup still laughs the bubble joy ; One prospect lost, another still we gain, And not a vanity is given in vain : Ev'n mean self-love becomes, by force divine, The scale to measure others
Página 40 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Página 113 - And to urge another argument of a parallel nature: if Christianity were once abolished, how could the freethinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject, so calculated in all points, whereon to display their abilities?
Página 387 - BROTHER, thou art gone before us, And thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, And sorrow is unknown ; From the burthen of the flesh, And from care and fear released, Where the wicked cease from troubling, And the weary are at rest.
Página 26 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Página 102 - Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
Página 104 - Guardian"; he seems to have done only that for which a guardian is appointed; he endeavoured to direct his niece till she should be able to direct herself. Poetry has not often been worse employed than in dignifying the amorous fury of a raving girl.
Página 69 - ... large territory has generally an abundance, but the inferior machinery which may be said to be employed when good land is further and further forced for additional produce. As the price of raw produce...
Página 569 - Atlantic wave ? Is India free ? and does she wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still? The grand debate, The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit...