The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 134A. Constable, 1871 |
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... true that no signs of this were visible in the discharge of the great functions of Government for the development of internal reform and resources in almost every manner that could be named . Allusion has already been made to the ...
... true that no signs of this were visible in the discharge of the great functions of Government for the development of internal reform and resources in almost every manner that could be named . Allusion has already been made to the ...
Pagina 13
... true in practice . In the quoted opinion it is broadly stated that four - fifths of the empire may be divested of troops when the country is engaged in serious war . The great fortresses in Poland and in the Baltic would have to be ...
... true in practice . In the quoted opinion it is broadly stated that four - fifths of the empire may be divested of troops when the country is engaged in serious war . The great fortresses in Poland and in the Baltic would have to be ...
Pagina 14
... true in the main ; and therefore that it exercises no slight effect on the willingness of the people to abandon homes which present but little charm or sense of security to them . If , as will be seen hereafter , the tendency of the ...
... true in the main ; and therefore that it exercises no slight effect on the willingness of the people to abandon homes which present but little charm or sense of security to them . If , as will be seen hereafter , the tendency of the ...
Pagina 16
... true , notwithstanding the attention paid to the latter , and the determination to adopt the policy of the nations of Western Europe , and so to place her forces on a permanent footing equivalent to what may be arrayed against her by an ...
... true , notwithstanding the attention paid to the latter , and the determination to adopt the policy of the nations of Western Europe , and so to place her forces on a permanent footing equivalent to what may be arrayed against her by an ...
Pagina 18
... true that under present circumstances , where 400,000 men might have been formerly enough , 650,000 men now disposable for this particular purpose would not more than suffice . Such speculations , which were perhaps matter of political ...
... true that under present circumstances , where 400,000 men might have been formerly enough , 650,000 men now disposable for this particular purpose would not more than suffice . Such speculations , which were perhaps matter of political ...
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Pagina 216 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts,5 the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man.
Pagina 254 - And all is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear; Well roars the storm to those that hear A deeper voice across the storm, Proclaiming social truth shall spread, And justice, ev'n tho' thrice again The red fool-fury of the Seine Should pile her barricades with dead.
Pagina 228 - The most ancient progenitors in the kingdom of the Vertebrata, at which we are able to obtain an obscure glance, apparently consisted of a group of marine animals," resembling the larvae of existing Ascidians. These animals probably gave rise to a group of fishes, as lowly organized as the lancelet; and from these the Ganoids, and other fishes like the Lepidosiren, must have been developed. From such fish a very small advance would carry us on to the Amphibians.
Pagina 323 - For he makes me confess that I ought not to live as I do, neglecting the wants of my own soul, and busying myself with the concerns of the Athenians; therefore I hold my ears and tear myself away from him.
Pagina 216 - Secondly, as soon as the mental faculties had become highly developed, images of all past actions and motives would be incessantly passing through the brain...
Pagina 216 - Thirdly, after the power of language had been acquired, and the wishes of the community could be expressed, the common opinion how each member ought to act for the public good, would naturally become in a paramount degree the guide to action.
Pagina 74 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Pagina 306 - Plato exhibits the rare union of close and subtle logic with the Pythian enthusiasm of poetry, melted by the splendour and harmony of his periods into one irresistible stream of musical impressions, which hurry the persuasions onward, as in a breathless career.
Pagina 81 - Yea, I am found the woman in all tales, The face caught always in the story's face: I Helen, holding Paris by the lips, Smote Hector through the head; I Cressida So kissed men's mouths that they went sick or mad, Stung right at brain with me; I Guenevere...
Pagina 228 - The Simiadae then branched off into two great stems, the New World and Old World monkeys; and from the latter, at a remote period, Man, the wonder and glory of the Universe, proceeded.