The National Quarterly Review, Volume 16Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman Pudney & Russell, 1868 |
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Pagina 236 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Pagina 306 - History of the Venetian Republic : Her Rise, her Greatness, and her Civilization.
Pagina 98 - ... ten or twenty thousand stars, compacted and wedged together in a round space, whose angular diameter does not exceed eight or ten minutes ; that is to say, in an area not more than a tenth part of that covered by the moon.
Pagina 101 - ... the firmament of large stars, into which the central cluster would be seen projected, and (owing to its greater distance) appearing like it to consist of stars much smaller than those in other parts of the heavens. "Can it be,'' asks Sir J. Herschel, " that we have here a brother system, bearing a real physical resemblance and strong analogy of structure to our own ?
Pagina 403 - ... school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear.
Pagina 244 - Majesty sitting under his state in the Banqueting house, the chirurgeons cause the sick to be brought or led up to the throne, where they kneeling...
Pagina 240 - Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England.
Pagina 161 - There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Pagina 244 - Banqueting-house, the chirurgeons cause the sick to be brought, or led, up to the throne, where they kneeling, the king strokes their faces, or cheeks with both his hands at once, at which instant a chaplain in his formalities says, " He put his hands upon them, and he healed them.
Pagina 340 - ... dissociation of elements by intense heat, is a principle of universal application ; so that we may suppose that all the elements which make up the sun or our planet, would, when so intensely heated as to be in...