The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 143A. Constable, 1876 |
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... means so obscure as his enemies in after days were prone to allege . He was educated at the University of Glasgow , where he graduated in 1637 ; and four years later was appointed , after a competitive examination- was the wont then - a ...
... means so obscure as his enemies in after days were prone to allege . He was educated at the University of Glasgow , where he graduated in 1637 ; and four years later was appointed , after a competitive examination- was the wont then - a ...
Pagina 13
... means , fair or foul . Both were at their disposal . Dalrymple had , indeed , committed no legal offence ; but he had done worse - he had endeavoured to uphold the law against a prince determined to govern in defiance of all law . For ...
... means , fair or foul . Both were at their disposal . Dalrymple had , indeed , committed no legal offence ; but he had done worse - he had endeavoured to uphold the law against a prince determined to govern in defiance of all law . For ...
Pagina 22
... means for ; or , whilk is the same thing , as mony as can , in any fashion , fair or foul , maintain themsells ; and there they are wi ' gun and pistol , dirk and dourlach , ready to disturb the peace o ' the country whenever the laird ...
... means for ; or , whilk is the same thing , as mony as can , in any fashion , fair or foul , maintain themsells ; and there they are wi ' gun and pistol , dirk and dourlach , ready to disturb the peace o ' the country whenever the laird ...
Pagina 23
... means been at his disposal , would have pacified the Highlands with all the vigour of Cumber- land is certain , and that he would not have shrunk from any of the severities of Cumberland is more than probable . And if in 1692 the ...
... means been at his disposal , would have pacified the Highlands with all the vigour of Cumber- land is certain , and that he would not have shrunk from any of the severities of Cumberland is more than probable . And if in 1692 the ...
Pagina 25
... means towards the attain- ment of important and beneficial ends , have a claim to be judged on broader principles . The great historian , on this occasion , allows no place to the doctrine of ' set - off , ' the appli- cation of which ...
... means towards the attain- ment of important and beneficial ends , have a claim to be judged on broader principles . The great historian , on this occasion , allows no place to the doctrine of ' set - off , ' the appli- cation of which ...
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Pagina 172 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them, and lo, they are ! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a
Pagina 172 - Consider it well ; each tone of our scale in itself is nought ; It is everywhere in the world—loud, soft, and all is said : Give it to me to use ! I mix it with two in my thought, And there ! ye have seen and heard ; consider and bow the
Pagina 581 - who are the same in wealth and in " poverty, in glory and in obscurity." Great as were the honours and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were well aware that the titles and rewards, which he gained by his own works, were as nothing in the
Pagina 127 - that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament.
Pagina 581 - except himself to speak. He has told us how his debt to them was incalculable ; how they guided him to truth; how they filled his mind with noble and graceful images; how they stood by him in all vicissitudes,—comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, " the old friends who are
Pagina 438 - no goods or commodities whatever, of the growth, production, or manufacture of Asia, Africa, or America, should be imported either into England or Ireland or any of the plantations of Great Britain, except in Britishbuilt ships, owned by British subjects, and of which the master and three-fourths of the crew belonged to that country
Pagina 568 - But he saw on Palatinus The white porch of his home, And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of
Pagina 569 - materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted." ' How much this letter pleased Macaulay is indicated by the fact of his having kept it unburned : a compliment which, except in this single instance, he never paid to any of his correspondents.
Pagina 580 - History will have been printed and sold in the United Kingdom alone.' Caring little for money, except in so far as he was able to make a liberal and generous use of it, Macaulay enjoyed the power his new opulence had conferred on him. Until he was fifty-two years of age, he had never had a
Pagina 497 - was thrown out of gear. The scarcity of hands made it difficult for the minor tenants to perform the services due for their lands, and only a temporary abandonment of half the rent by the landowners induced the farmers to refrain from the abandonment of their farms.