The National Review, Volume 19Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1864 |
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... evidence how it worked . But the fact that a single General was , after a few years , substituted for two , seems to show that it worked badly . As a President is , on the one hand , clearly to be distin- guished from a Council , he is ...
... evidence how it worked . But the fact that a single General was , after a few years , substituted for two , seems to show that it worked badly . As a President is , on the one hand , clearly to be distin- guished from a Council , he is ...
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... evidence . In capacity for textual criticism he stands conspicuous ; and we do not envy the man who attempts to detract from his fair fame , or to depreciate his learning . There are few critics , indeed , in whose competency we should ...
... evidence . In capacity for textual criticism he stands conspicuous ; and we do not envy the man who attempts to detract from his fair fame , or to depreciate his learning . There are few critics , indeed , in whose competency we should ...
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... evidence that he was compelled to reject them . In 1846 and 1848 respectively , appeared two editions of the Greek Testament by Edward von Muralt . The latter is the larger , containing a preface of 115 pages , and upwards of 200 pages ...
... evidence that he was compelled to reject them . In 1846 and 1848 respectively , appeared two editions of the Greek Testament by Edward von Muralt . The latter is the larger , containing a preface of 115 pages , and upwards of 200 pages ...
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... evidence on both sides . He has done service to criticism by collating several ancient MSS . , a work which he performs very accurately . But in the qualifi- cations of a critical editor he seems to be deficient . judgment cannot be ...
... evidence on both sides . He has done service to criticism by collating several ancient MSS . , a work which he performs very accurately . But in the qualifi- cations of a critical editor he seems to be deficient . judgment cannot be ...
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... evidence not to count it . The student will learn little from Dr. Bloomfield in relation to the most ancient text , because the venerable man had grown old before the researches of Lachmann and Tischendorf had opened up a new path into ...
... evidence not to count it . The student will learn little from Dr. Bloomfield in relation to the most ancient text , because the venerable man had grown old before the researches of Lachmann and Tischendorf had opened up a new path into ...
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Page 63 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: "'Tis clear...
Page 62 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing...
Page 64 - Swam across and lived to carry (As he, the manuscript he cherished) To Rat-land home his commentary: Which was, 'At the first shrill notes of the pipe, I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, And putting apples, wondrous ripe, Into a...
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Page 43 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity...
Page 66 - And, like fowls in a farmyard when barley is scattering, Out came the children running. All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.
Page 42 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
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Page 64 - And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if an army muttered; And the muttering grew to a grumbling; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper...
Page 241 - I look around me and ask what is the state of England ? Is not property safe ? Is not every man able to say what he likes ? Can you not walk from one end of England to the other in perfect security ? I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it ? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last.