The North British Review, Volume 24W.P. Kennedy, 1855 |
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... Russia , significance of the struggle , 142 ; Wit , Hudibrastic , 47 . THE NORTH BRITISH NO . XLVII , REVIEW . FOR. moral imperfection of his characters , 104 , 105 ; his peculiar style , 106 ; breadth of handling characters not ...
... Russia , significance of the struggle , 142 ; Wit , Hudibrastic , 47 . THE NORTH BRITISH NO . XLVII , REVIEW . FOR. moral imperfection of his characters , 104 , 105 ; his peculiar style , 106 ; breadth of handling characters not ...
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... Russia , and a hundred other grave contemporary matters , who will have the heart to object to an hour's gossip by the way about old Samuel Butler ? One peculiarity about Butler , as one of our British authors , is that he was fifty ...
... Russia , and a hundred other grave contemporary matters , who will have the heart to object to an hour's gossip by the way about old Samuel Butler ? One peculiarity about Butler , as one of our British authors , is that he was fifty ...
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... Russia is the incarnation of encroaching open wide its door to every other descrip- and conquering absolutism . She is the chief tion of talent ; and when the battle has been branch and the acknowledged head of the fought and won , we ...
... Russia is the incarnation of encroaching open wide its door to every other descrip- and conquering absolutism . She is the chief tion of talent ; and when the battle has been branch and the acknowledged head of the fought and won , we ...
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... Russia was , ipso facto , and whatever with whose sufferings we so keenly sympa- were its pretext or its form , a war against thized - the tyrant more odious to our feel- the mightiest and most persistent foe of pro - ings even than Russia ...
... Russia was , ipso facto , and whatever with whose sufferings we so keenly sympa- were its pretext or its form , a war against thized - the tyrant more odious to our feel- the mightiest and most persistent foe of pro - ings even than Russia ...
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144 wishing to make war with Russia , would ac- tually have become the allies and auxilia- ries of that very power ... Russia within the limits of treaties- complaint against her was , not that she had broken the Decalogue , but that ...
144 wishing to make war with Russia , would ac- tually have become the allies and auxilia- ries of that very power ... Russia within the limits of treaties- complaint against her was , not that she had broken the Decalogue , but that ...
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Page 246 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 19 - Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying, There on beds of violets blue And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled her with thee, a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair.
Page 253 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Page 107 - That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Page 239 - Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know, (How nothing's that?) to whom my country owes The great renown, and name wherewith she goes.
Page 35 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Page 26 - Statutes at Large; the works of Hume, Gibbon, Robertson, Beattie, Soame Jenyns, and, generally, all those volumes which "no gentleman's library should be without " : the Histories of Flavius Josephus (that learned Jew), and Paley's Moral Philosophy.
Page 35 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk ; VOL.
Page 8 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Page 112 - The parson is always preaching at the squire, and the squire to be revenged on the parson never comes to church. The squire has made all his tenants atheists and...