The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 87Archibald Constable and Company, 1821 - English literature |
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... laws , ( See the preamble of the law relative to the unsold property of the emi- grants , ) and by certain mysterious , but ominous expressions and actions of that party , ( " royalistes pures et par excellence " , ) who were understood ...
... laws , ( See the preamble of the law relative to the unsold property of the emi- grants , ) and by certain mysterious , but ominous expressions and actions of that party , ( " royalistes pures et par excellence " , ) who were understood ...
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... laws , unfavourable to the sta- bility of the sales of national property -See the preamble of the laws rela- tive to the unsold property of emi- grants , already referred to , ) - and the provisions of the liberty of the press destroyed ...
... laws , unfavourable to the sta- bility of the sales of national property -See the preamble of the laws rela- tive to the unsold property of emi- grants , already referred to , ) - and the provisions of the liberty of the press destroyed ...
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... laws which the Revolu- tion had established ; the disturbance of those proprietary changes which it had con- secrated ; the proscription of all those indi- viduals who , for the last twenty years , had taken any share in its events ; in ...
... laws which the Revolu- tion had established ; the disturbance of those proprietary changes which it had con- secrated ; the proscription of all those indi- viduals who , for the last twenty years , had taken any share in its events ; in ...
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... laws of the kingdom in which it lives . That there is an order or government , that there are laws , is a matter of in- stinctive perception . When the dis- covery what the laws are is made , then that these laws will continue to have ...
... laws of the kingdom in which it lives . That there is an order or government , that there are laws , is a matter of in- stinctive perception . When the dis- covery what the laws are is made , then that these laws will continue to have ...
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... law , and medicine , made him choose theology for , at least , the nominal ob- jects of his studies , and in the autumn of 1806 he was sent to Göttingen . He seems now first to have learned , that , by a proper application of his ...
... law , and medicine , made him choose theology for , at least , the nominal ob- jects of his studies , and in the autumn of 1806 he was sent to Göttingen . He seems now first to have learned , that , by a proper application of his ...
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Page 545 - Who fill'st existence with Thyself alone : Embracing all, — supporting, — ruling o'er,— Being whom we call GOD — and know no more...
Page 193 - This to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline; But still the house affairs would draw her thence; Which ever as she could with haste dispatch, She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse. Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not intentively.
Page 546 - But the effluence of Thy light divine, Pervading worlds, hath reached my bosom too ; Yes! in my spirit doth Thy spirit shine, As shines the sunbeam in a drop of dew.
Page 547 - The chain of being is complete in me ; In me is matter's last gradation lost, And the next step is spirit, — Deity ! I can command the lightning and am dust ! A monarch and a slave...
Page 146 - The troublesome Raigne and lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: with the tragicall fall of proud Mortimer.
Page 48 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood ; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar ; " With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman ;" this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Page 256 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 546 - All gay with life, all eloquent with bliss, What shall we call them ? Piles of crystal light, A glorious company of golden streams, Lamps of celestial ether burning bright, Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams ? But thou to these art as the noon to night.
Page 427 - Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
Page 146 - And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher, Why should I grieve at my declining fall? Farewell, fair queen; weep not for Mortimer, That scorns the world, and, as a traveller, Goes to discover countries yet unknown.