The North British Review, Volume 24W.P. Kennedy, 1855 |
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... means or a treasure which will be available to a far greater extent , when those measures shall have been taken , and those Yet the fact we now refer to , namely , the labours persisted in , as touching an upper active intellectual ...
... means or a treasure which will be available to a far greater extent , when those measures shall have been taken , and those Yet the fact we now refer to , namely , the labours persisted in , as touching an upper active intellectual ...
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... means of worn apophthegm of the " trade . " which the materials put before us in the But secondly , it is the manufacturing sys- store - house of Nature , are wrought upon , tem in all its branches , taken as a whole , so as to render ...
... means of worn apophthegm of the " trade . " which the materials put before us in the But secondly , it is the manufacturing sys- store - house of Nature , are wrought upon , tem in all its branches , taken as a whole , so as to render ...
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... means are forthwith resorted to for giving effect to this " new process . " 22 But again , we hear now and then , with amazement , of some munificent five hundred pounds that has been conceded by a scien- tific corporation to Professor ...
... means are forthwith resorted to for giving effect to this " new process . " 22 But again , we hear now and then , with amazement , of some munificent five hundred pounds that has been conceded by a scien- tific corporation to Professor ...
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... means . As to these , namely , the means of the manufacturing system - its capital , we do not hesitate to express the belief that , if the entire loss and waste occur- ring ordinarily in any one branch of this sys- tem , through ...
... means . As to these , namely , the means of the manufacturing system - its capital , we do not hesitate to express the belief that , if the entire loss and waste occur- ring ordinarily in any one branch of this sys- tem , through ...
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... means in other processes in lore , treasured in shops and factories , and , the arts ; we mean that they are employed for the most part , ignored by philosophy . as agents for bringing about some further re- sult in manufactures . We ...
... means in other processes in lore , treasured in shops and factories , and , the arts ; we mean that they are employed for the most part , ignored by philosophy . as agents for bringing about some further re- sult in manufactures . We ...
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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...