The North British Review, Volume 24W.P. Kennedy, 1855 |
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... existence . This rural population does of arable and pasture , bordered by copses , pretty well if the father be able - bodied and and intersected by streams and rills , by the sober , and the mother managing , through side of which the ...
... existence . This rural population does of arable and pasture , bordered by copses , pretty well if the father be able - bodied and and intersected by streams and rills , by the sober , and the mother managing , through side of which the ...
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... existence of the government of July they represented chiefly a rivalry of mere material interests . The Restoration was a duel well and fairly fought between the spirit of the present and that of the past , the government of Louis ...
... existence of the government of July they represented chiefly a rivalry of mere material interests . The Restoration was a duel well and fairly fought between the spirit of the present and that of the past , the government of Louis ...
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... existence in Paris of one free - spoken paper , conducted with talent , would be too much for his power . All this is no reason why his power should not endure . As long as he has the upper hand ( no matter by what means ) , he may ...
... existence in Paris of one free - spoken paper , conducted with talent , would be too much for his power . All this is no reason why his power should not endure . As long as he has the upper hand ( no matter by what means ) , he may ...
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... existence of Foundling Hospitals , which serve to attract and receive illegitimate children upon a very large scale . The City Mission , the great machine for evangelizing London , has very few supporters among the aristocracy . Nearly ...
... existence of Foundling Hospitals , which serve to attract and receive illegitimate children upon a very large scale . The City Mission , the great machine for evangelizing London , has very few supporters among the aristocracy . Nearly ...
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... existence . A distressing case forces itself upon their notice every now and then : they mourn over it , and then shut their eyes ; they do not detect the deeper evil , of which the skin - eruption is but the external symptom . most ...
... existence . A distressing case forces itself upon their notice every now and then : they mourn over it , and then shut their eyes ; they do not detect the deeper evil , of which the skin - eruption is but the external symptom . most ...
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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...