The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Tom 95Archibald Constable and Company, 1825 |
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... French language has been scarcely sufficient to enable me to read the Tales of Mercier , or the Fables of La Motte . I intend , however , speedily again to overhaul my intellectual character . I must examine , so to speak , how the ...
... French language has been scarcely sufficient to enable me to read the Tales of Mercier , or the Fables of La Motte . I intend , however , speedily again to overhaul my intellectual character . I must examine , so to speak , how the ...
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... French renegado , who said that he never found himself on horseback , in the desert , without a sensation ap- proaching to rapture , almost inde- Scribable . Our recollections of the heroes of former days are intimately associa- ted ...
... French renegado , who said that he never found himself on horseback , in the desert , without a sensation ap- proaching to rapture , almost inde- Scribable . Our recollections of the heroes of former days are intimately associa- ted ...
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... French . They proved most ruinous to their enemies , by cutting off their resources of provisions , and attacking their foraging parties , who dared scarcely venture five versts from their camps . " While abundance reigned in the camp ...
... French . They proved most ruinous to their enemies , by cutting off their resources of provisions , and attacking their foraging parties , who dared scarcely venture five versts from their camps . " While abundance reigned in the camp ...
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... French army at Moscow , by tracing round it a con- tiguous circle . The militia of Tver was still in that town , so as to sustain Vintzingerode ; that of Yarosláf , posted at Porisláf - Zaleskoi , covered the road of Yarosláf ; that of ...
... French army at Moscow , by tracing round it a con- tiguous circle . The militia of Tver was still in that town , so as to sustain Vintzingerode ; that of Yarosláf , posted at Porisláf - Zaleskoi , covered the road of Yarosláf ; that of ...
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... French post threw itself upon him . A white handkerchief which he held in his hand , in order to pass pour parlementaire , did not save him . As Colonel Boutourlin honestly remarks , “ les ennemis ne pouvant raisonnablement avoir égard ...
... French post threw itself upon him . A white handkerchief which he held in his hand , in order to pass pour parlementaire , did not save him . As Colonel Boutourlin honestly remarks , “ les ennemis ne pouvant raisonnablement avoir égard ...
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Strona 69 - And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Strona 579 - I have of late (but wherefore, I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and, indee'd, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.
Strona 579 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Strona 134 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not...
Strona 434 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o
Strona 429 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him, and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Strona 572 - ... 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 ; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence : truths that wake, To perish never ; Which neither listlessness nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy...
Strona 579 - What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Strona 97 - And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
Strona 300 - tis holy ground ! II. From yonder realms of empyrean day Bursts on my ear th' indignant lay : There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine, The few, whom Genius gave to shine Through every unborn age, and undiscovered clime.