The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Tom 64A. Constable, 1837 |
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... reader even superficially acquainted with Sir Thomas Browne , will be amu- sed to perceive the uneasy pains with which the grave lexicogra- pher endeavours to tame down the wild and eccentric subject upon which he had fallen , to his ...
... reader even superficially acquainted with Sir Thomas Browne , will be amu- sed to perceive the uneasy pains with which the grave lexicogra- pher endeavours to tame down the wild and eccentric subject upon which he had fallen , to his ...
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... reader with a clear and elaborate view of the merits and peculiarities of one , nor the least , of those gigantic writers , who conducted the progress of language and of mind through that memorable interval which , commencing with the ...
... reader with a clear and elaborate view of the merits and peculiarities of one , nor the least , of those gigantic writers , who conducted the progress of language and of mind through that memorable interval which , commencing with the ...
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... readers in endeavouring to describe and dissect the genius of Browne , -who have been so much at a loss to account for its singularities and contradictions , and who have only attempted to seize its subtle spirit in meshes of anti ...
... readers in endeavouring to describe and dissect the genius of Browne , -who have been so much at a loss to account for its singularities and contradictions , and who have only attempted to seize its subtle spirit in meshes of anti ...
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... readers , succeeded a large and miscellaneous and sturdy Public . A popular style , and popular subjects , were necessary to ensure popular favour ; gradually our literature lost its euphuism , and went back to something of its Saxon ...
... readers , succeeded a large and miscellaneous and sturdy Public . A popular style , and popular subjects , were necessary to ensure popular favour ; gradually our literature lost its euphuism , and went back to something of its Saxon ...
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... reader , that there are many things ' delivered rhetorically - many expressions therein merely tropi- ' cal ; and therefore , also , there are many things to be taken in a ' soft and flexible sense , and not to be called unto the rigid ...
... reader , that there are many things ' delivered rhetorically - many expressions therein merely tropi- ' cal ; and therefore , also , there are many things to be taken in a ' soft and flexible sense , and not to be called unto the rigid ...
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Strona 21 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story (before the Flood); and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century.
Strona 21 - ... daily haunts us with dying mementoes , and time , that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration — diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation.
Strona 103 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
Strona 22 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Strona 23 - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion.
Strona 23 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Strona 15 - We carry with us the wonders we seek without us: there is all Africa and her prodigies in us; we are that bold and adventurous piece of Nature, which he that studies wisely learns in a compendium what others labour at in a divided piece and endless volume.
Strona 22 - To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days, and, our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
Strona 15 - Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature ; they being both servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial ; for nature is the art of God...
Strona 16 - There is surely a piece of divinity in us ; something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.