The North British Review, Volume 24W.P. Kennedy, 1855 |
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... matter of re- position of the payer of wages toward the proach . We should be glad if we could receiver of wages . It will not do - if we think ( which we do not at present believe ) wish , as philosophers , or as philanthropists , that ...
... matter of re- position of the payer of wages toward the proach . We should be glad if we could receiver of wages . It will not do - if we think ( which we do not at present believe ) wish , as philosophers , or as philanthropists , that ...
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... matter now before us , and to be aware of the great extent of meaning which belongs to it , we must give a few minutes ' attention to a subject , less often considered than it might be . We mean , the relation of manufacturing ...
... matter now before us , and to be aware of the great extent of meaning which belongs to it , we must give a few minutes ' attention to a subject , less often considered than it might be . We mean , the relation of manufacturing ...
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... matter take in hand any one of the principal man- as with the secondary ; and that it is ac - ufactures , whatever may be the material quainted with those conditions of the ma- terial world which are universal , and with those also that ...
... matter take in hand any one of the principal man- as with the secondary ; and that it is ac - ufactures , whatever may be the material quainted with those conditions of the ma- terial world which are universal , and with those also that ...
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... matter in their separate part in carrying forward the the mass , and as subject to the laws of different stages of a complicated and much gravitation , vis inertia , momentum - these diversified process . sciences , which find their ...
... matter in their separate part in carrying forward the the mass , and as subject to the laws of different stages of a complicated and much gravitation , vis inertia , momentum - these diversified process . sciences , which find their ...
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... matter , and in the ends or purposes kept English classes , and who will be descanting in view , and especially in the methods of upon the matchless power and grace of those teaching , a classical course and a useful classic modern ...
... matter , and in the ends or purposes kept English classes , and who will be descanting in view , and especially in the methods of upon the matchless power and grace of those teaching , a classical course and a useful classic modern ...
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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...