The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 101A. Constable, 1855 |
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... remains that we should say a few words upon its operation with respect to foreign nations . In ancient times there were no newspapers , and there was no reporting of speeches for the public use . The vituperative * See the interesting ...
... remains that we should say a few words upon its operation with respect to foreign nations . In ancient times there were no newspapers , and there was no reporting of speeches for the public use . The vituperative * See the interesting ...
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... remains of the several geological periods , to arrange and classify the various grades of animal life which prevailed in each , and even to describe the structure and the habits by which they were respectively distinguished . It is true ...
... remains of the several geological periods , to arrange and classify the various grades of animal life which prevailed in each , and even to describe the structure and the habits by which they were respectively distinguished . It is true ...
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... remain a wonderful phenomenon , if not a miracle in the dogmatic sense . It is said to have been observed , that he often repeats the same ideas in conversation . He told me he had learned Russian at Bologna from a Pole , and so had ...
... remain a wonderful phenomenon , if not a miracle in the dogmatic sense . It is said to have been observed , that he often repeats the same ideas in conversation . He told me he had learned Russian at Bologna from a Pole , and so had ...
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... remains which he has left is a Mexican calendar , drawn up by himself , and illustrated by drawings from the pencil of one of his nieces , Signorina Minarelli . The catalogue of his library contains several books not only in Mexican ...
... remains which he has left is a Mexican calendar , drawn up by himself , and illustrated by drawings from the pencil of one of his nieces , Signorina Minarelli . The catalogue of his library contains several books not only in Mexican ...
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... remain much uncertainty as to the real extent of his attainments ; and unless farther light should be thrown upon it by some of the papers which he left behind , much of the most interesting part of the history of his extraordinary gift ...
... remain much uncertainty as to the real extent of his attainments ; and unless farther light should be thrown upon it by some of the papers which he left behind , much of the most interesting part of the history of his extraordinary gift ...
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Page 155 - So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. If a new road, for instance, were to be made through the grounds of a private person, it might perhaps be extensively beneficial to the public, but the law permits no man, or set of men, to do this without consent of the owner of the land.
Page 452 - Pythian's mystic cave of yore, Those oracles which set the world in flame, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more : Did he not this for France?
Page 232 - I am forced, with all humility, and yet plainly, to profess, that I cannot with safe conscience, and without the offence of the majesty of God, give my assent to the suppressing of the said exercises: much less can I send out any injunction for the utter and universal subversion of the same.
Page 349 - I know a citizen who adds or alters a letter in his name, with every plum he acquires; he now wants only the change of a vowel* to be allied to a sovereign prince in Italy ;f and that perhaps he may contrive to be done by a mistake of the graver upon his tomb-stone.
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Page 313 - The court does not recognize their application. There is no likeness between the cases. They are in opposition to each other, and there is an impassable gulf between them. The difference is that . which exists between freedom and slavery; and a greater cannot be imagined.
Page 313 - Such services can only be expected from one who has no will of his own, who surrenders his will in implicit obedience to that of another. Such obedience is the consequence only of uncontrolled authority over the body. There is nothing else which can operate to produce the effect. The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.