The North British Review, Volume 24W.P. Kennedy, 1855 |
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... already brought itself much learning as this may be found in into a position of the closest familiarity , as any educational book . But now , if we well with the primary properties of matter take in hand any one of the principal man- as ...
... already brought itself much learning as this may be found in into a position of the closest familiarity , as any educational book . But now , if we well with the primary properties of matter take in hand any one of the principal man- as ...
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... already in possession of a cumbrous and faulty one . have long been concentrated ; and as to most of these instances , it may be presumed , that ingenuity , science , and capital together , have reached the ne plus ultra of mechani- cal ...
... already in possession of a cumbrous and faulty one . have long been concentrated ; and as to most of these instances , it may be presumed , that ingenuity , science , and capital together , have reached the ne plus ultra of mechani- cal ...
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... already to have been cient nations , Indian , Chinese , Persian , well learned elsewhere : he confines himself , Tyrian , Egyptian , Carthaginian , Grecian , therefore , to the labour of bringing this ini- Roman ; and on this ground ...
... already to have been cient nations , Indian , Chinese , Persian , well learned elsewhere : he confines himself , Tyrian , Egyptian , Carthaginian , Grecian , therefore , to the labour of bringing this ini- Roman ; and on this ground ...
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... already scientific light , we do not know that there is been surpassed by some of our rivals , it an exception to the rule , that Industrial Art would be a fatal mistake to imagine that , from is ONE ART ; for it is dependent upon the ...
... already scientific light , we do not know that there is been surpassed by some of our rivals , it an exception to the rule , that Industrial Art would be a fatal mistake to imagine that , from is ONE ART ; for it is dependent upon the ...
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... Already we have ventured to express our opinion that an association of the kind now in view should invite to its meetings , and should organically include a certain number of those meritorious men who , as managers and heads of ...
... Already we have ventured to express our opinion that an association of the kind now in view should invite to its meetings , and should organically include a certain number of those meritorious men who , as managers and heads of ...
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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...