The Quarterly Review, Volume 87William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1850 |
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Pagina 373 - TRAVEL in the younger sort is a part of education ; in the elder a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Pagina 329 - Newton teaches nothing that would make a good logician or metaphysician, and Gassendi and Descartes do not agree so well with revealed truth as Aristotle does.
Pagina 82 - ... nevertheless, in attentively watching the blind man's back, it is astonishing to observe how easily and fluently he does his work. For a considerable time he is to be seen, evidently from memory, writing post-haste the omitted post towns on each letter, as rapidly as he can handle them. Now and then, as if his gas-lamp had, without any apparent reason, half fainted away, he holds a letter before him for a few moments, turning it a little on this side, and then on that, until he suddenly deciphers...
Pagina 40 - Mon enfant, un des plus sûrs moyens de bonheur est d'avoir su conserver l'estime de soi-même, de pouvoir regarder sa vie entière sans honte et sans remords, sans y voir une action vile, ni un tort ou un mal fait à autrui, et qu'on n'ait pas réparé.
Pagina 82 - ... vicarages,' &c.), the post towns are omitted, the difficulty is not only clearly evident, but it at first appears to be insuperable ; nevertheless, in attentively watching the blind man's back, it is astonishing to observe how easily and fluently he does his work. For a considerable time he is to be seen, evidently from memory, writing post-haste the omitted post towns on each letter, as rapidly as he can handle them. Now and then, as if his gas-lamp had, without any apparent reason, half fainted...
Pagina 212 - The loose elements of the revolution, encouraged by this absolute and easy triumph, were now consolidated into a ' Committee of citizens, National Guards, and students of Vienna, for the maintenance of peace and order, and for the defence of the rights of the people,' and in Vienna from that moment the whole power was in the hands of this pure ochlocracy.
Pagina 266 - England and served in the campaigns of the Duke of York in Flanders, and...
Pagina 92 - ... a-year has been effected, although the Government is supplied with paper at a notoriously cheap rate. By another alteration, which his Lordship has lately effected in the form of the correspondence of the money-order department, the number of packets transmitted on that service to the inland London office has been reduced about 46,000 a-week, and of course the expense and trouble of receiving, of conveying, and of sorting these letters on their arrrival at the London inland office, have also...
Pagina 121 - ... alarmed Government the demand of a Ministry of Progress ! Organization of Labour ! This only confirmed Louis Blanc's colleagues in their apprehensions that, if they yielded this point, the new department would absorb all the confidence and power of the populace — the only power in the new State. Equally afraid to resist or to comply, they offered a compromise, and, with an insidious deference to his special studies and supposed attainments in political economy, they proposed to place Louis...