Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 3Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 324 pages |
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Page 138
... Temple deduced à theory of go- vernment from the properties of the pyramid . Mr. Southey's whole system of finance is grounded on the phænomena of evaporation and rain . In theology , this perverted ingenuity has made still wilder work ...
... Temple deduced à theory of go- vernment from the properties of the pyramid . Mr. Southey's whole system of finance is grounded on the phænomena of evaporation and rain . In theology , this perverted ingenuity has made still wilder work ...
Page 146
... very different from those with which we now turn away from the checkered spectacle of so much glory and so much shame . From a Letter of Bacon to Lord Burleigh . SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE . ( OCTOBER , 1838. ) Memoirs 146 LORD BACON .
... very different from those with which we now turn away from the checkered spectacle of so much glory and so much shame . From a Letter of Bacon to Lord Burleigh . SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE . ( OCTOBER , 1838. ) Memoirs 146 LORD BACON .
Page 147
In Five Volumes Thomas Babington Macaulay, Macaulay. SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE . ( OCTOBER , 1838. ) Memoirs of the Life , Works , and Correspondence of Sir William Temple . By the Right Hon . THOMAS PEREGRINE COURTENAY . 2 vols . 8vo . Lon ...
In Five Volumes Thomas Babington Macaulay, Macaulay. SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE . ( OCTOBER , 1838. ) Memoirs of the Life , Works , and Correspondence of Sir William Temple . By the Right Hon . THOMAS PEREGRINE COURTENAY . 2 vols . 8vo . Lon ...
Page 148
... . " What schoolboy of fourteen is ignorant of this remarkable circumstance ? What Whig , new or old , was ever such an idiot as to think that it could be suppressed ? Really we might as well say that it is a 148 SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE .
... . " What schoolboy of fourteen is ignorant of this remarkable circumstance ? What Whig , new or old , was ever such an idiot as to think that it could be suppressed ? Really we might as well say that it is a 148 SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE .
Page 149
... Temple is one of those men whom the world has agreed to praise highly without knowing much about them , and who are ... Temple . Yet Temple is not a man to our taste . A temper not na- turally good , but under strict command ; a constant ...
... Temple is one of those men whom the world has agreed to praise highly without knowing much about them , and who are ... Temple . Yet Temple is not a man to our taste . A temper not na- turally good , but under strict command ; a constant ...
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