The Edinburgh Review, Volumen105A. and C. Black, 1857 |
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... government , of disorganisation , of waning life . Has , then , this state of intellectual and political torpor in the government and in the nation preserved either one or the other from revolutions ? Has stagnation secured durability ...
... government , of disorganisation , of waning life . Has , then , this state of intellectual and political torpor in the government and in the nation preserved either one or the other from revolutions ? Has stagnation secured durability ...
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... government the most various ; monarchy and republicanism , absolutism and constitutional government , the despotism of a man and the despotism of an assembly , a supremacy in Europe sometimes earned by war , sometimes exercised in peace ...
... government the most various ; monarchy and republicanism , absolutism and constitutional government , the despotism of a man and the despotism of an assembly , a supremacy in Europe sometimes earned by war , sometimes exercised in peace ...
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... government , gave rise to the coalition of a part of the nobility and the middle classes in the Fronde- that strange mixture of selfish- ness and of sincerity , of frivolity and of bloodshed . Long after this design had miscarried ...
... government , gave rise to the coalition of a part of the nobility and the middle classes in the Fronde- that strange mixture of selfish- ness and of sincerity , of frivolity and of bloodshed . Long after this design had miscarried ...
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... government , the good conduct of public affairs , the rights and the liberties of individuals . And if they on many occasions failed in this generous design , still have some strong and manly minds , patrician or plebeian , magistrates ...
... government , the good conduct of public affairs , the rights and the liberties of individuals . And if they on many occasions failed in this generous design , still have some strong and manly minds , patrician or plebeian , magistrates ...
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... government . That task has cost us two revolutions , but these revolutions ( including even that of 1648 , in spite of its excesses ) were in truth the development , not the interrup- tion , of the faith , the spirit , and the ...
... government . That task has cost us two revolutions , but these revolutions ( including even that of 1648 , in spite of its excesses ) were in truth the development , not the interrup- tion , of the faith , the spirit , and the ...
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Página 203 - All property of the wife, owned by her before marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, bequest, devise, or descent, with the rents, issues, and profits thereof, is her separate property. The wife may, without the consent of her husband, convey her separate property.
Página 482 - Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.
Página 370 - There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas.. It is the Gulf Stream.
Página 166 - That Prelacy, and the superiority of any office in the Church above Presbyters, is, and hath been, a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people, ever since the Reformation, they having been reformed from Popery by Presbyters, and, therefore, ought to be abolished.
Página 483 - The characteristic peculiarity of his intellect was the union of great powers with low prejudices. If we judged of him by the best parts of his mind, we should place him almost as high as he was placed by the idolatry of Boswell ; if by the worst parts of his mind, we should place him even below Boswell himself.
Página 482 - That such a man should have written one of the best books in the world is strange enough. But this is not all. Many persons who have conducted themselves foolishly in active life, and whose conversation has indicated no superior powers of mind, have left us valuable works.
Página 483 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.
Página 492 - If you come to settle here, we will have one day in the week on which we will meet by ourselves. That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
Página 488 - His virtues walk'd their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found His single talent well employ'd.
Página 482 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.