The Oriental herald and colonial review [ed. by J.S. Buckingham]., Volume 13James Silk Buckingham 1827 |
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... learned scholars are willing to believe . Besides , the fact is , however such persons may desire to disguise it , there really are no grounds at all worth mentioning , upon which to rea- son about Homer's individuality as a question of ...
... learned scholars are willing to believe . Besides , the fact is , however such persons may desire to disguise it , there really are no grounds at all worth mentioning , upon which to rea- son about Homer's individuality as a question of ...
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... Learned men , who consume their lives in their closets , observing the obscure movements of their own minds , or comparing the opinions and knowledge of other philosophers , are not the persons to paint manners and the signs and effects ...
... Learned men , who consume their lives in their closets , observing the obscure movements of their own minds , or comparing the opinions and knowledge of other philosophers , are not the persons to paint manners and the signs and effects ...
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... learned Thebans , the Wolfs and the Heynes , assert , in the teeth of all these circum- stances , that Homer was ignorant of the art of writing ? If we are not entirely mistaken in this matter , this strolling old bard , this man who ...
... learned Thebans , the Wolfs and the Heynes , assert , in the teeth of all these circum- stances , that Homer was ignorant of the art of writing ? If we are not entirely mistaken in this matter , this strolling old bard , this man who ...
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... learned gentlemen a great many secrets in the art of composition . But , letting this pass , who is it that has told them the heroic Greeks were ignorant how to write their names ? What ancient historian has asserted it ? Let the reader ...
... learned gentlemen a great many secrets in the art of composition . But , letting this pass , who is it that has told them the heroic Greeks were ignorant how to write their names ? What ancient historian has asserted it ? Let the reader ...
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... learned innumerable passages from other poets and sophists ; and although we cannot but join with Socrates in smiling at his notions of the way to wisdom , we must grant him the merit of great assiduity , and a most retentive memory ...
... learned innumerable passages from other poets and sophists ; and although we cannot but join with Socrates in smiling at his notions of the way to wisdom , we must grant him the merit of great assiduity , and a most retentive memory ...
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Page 491 - One asylum of free discussion is still inviolate. There is still one spot in Europe where man can freely exercise his reason on the most important concerns of society, where he can boldly publish his judgment on the acts of the proudest and most powerful tyrants. The press of England is still free. It is guarded by the free constitution of our forefathers. It is guarded by the hearts and arms of Englishmen, and I trust I may venture to say, that if it be to fall, it will fall only under the ruins...
Page 239 - Not empire to the rising sun By valour, conduct, fortune won ; Not highest wisdom in debates For framing laws to govern states ; Not skill in sciences profound So large to grasp the circle round : Such heavenly influence require, As how to strike the Muse's lyre.
Page 264 - The Emperor of Russia is rendering himself obnoxious to his subjects by various acts of tyranny, and ridiculous in the eyes of Europe by his inconsistency.
Page 105 - ... hole, and the concave taken out at the other end, which extendeth to about the middle of this erected tent, through which the visible radiations of all the objects without are intromitted, falling upon a paper, which is accommodated to receive them ; and so he traceth them with his pen in their natural appearance, turning his little tent round by degrees, till he hath designed the whole aspect of the field.
Page 612 - If an honest, and, I may truly affirm, a laborious zeal for the public service, has given me any weight in your esteem, let me exhort and conjure you, never to suffer an invasion of your political constitution, however minute the instance may appear, to pass by, without a determined persevering resistance. One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate, and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, to-day is doctrine. Examples are supposed to justify the most dangerous measures; and where they...
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Page 543 - Oxen, and that so little care was taken about their immortal souls ; he looked upon it as a Prodigy, that any wearing the Name of Christians should so much have the Heart of Devils in them, as to prevent and hinder the Instruction of the poor Blackamores, and confine the souls of their miserable Slaves to a Destroying Ignorance, merely for fear of thereby losing the Benefit of their Vassalage...
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Page 314 - Trade in the appointment of a Committee of the House of Commons to investigate the subject.
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