The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 132A. Constable, 1870 |
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... Remains and Manners and Customs of Modern Savages . By Sir John Lubbock , Bart . , F.R.S. 8vo . 2nd edition . 1869 . 2. Précis de Paléontologie humaine . Par le Docteur E. T. Hamy . 8vo . Paris : 1870 . 3. Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ . By MM ...
... Remains and Manners and Customs of Modern Savages . By Sir John Lubbock , Bart . , F.R.S. 8vo . 2nd edition . 1869 . 2. Précis de Paléontologie humaine . Par le Docteur E. T. Hamy . 8vo . Paris : 1870 . 3. Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ . By MM ...
Pagina 5
... remains to be done for the text of Chaucer's greatest work ; and still more , perhaps , for the adequate explanation of its language and allusions . We have as yet no satisfactory and authoritative text even of the Canterbury Tales ...
... remains to be done for the text of Chaucer's greatest work ; and still more , perhaps , for the adequate explanation of its language and allusions . We have as yet no satisfactory and authoritative text even of the Canterbury Tales ...
Pagina 33
... remains to be done for the illustration as for the text of Chaucer's poetical works . There are in his writings almost innumerable points of philological , literary , or historical interest that require to be elucidated . Chaucer was ...
... remains to be done for the illustration as for the text of Chaucer's poetical works . There are in his writings almost innumerable points of philological , literary , or historical interest that require to be elucidated . Chaucer was ...
Pagina 59
... remains un- decided . The Polish revolt is noticed in this place , as an essential element in the question before us , simply because the national excitement which it provoked was soon directed against the institutions of the Baltic ...
... remains un- decided . The Polish revolt is noticed in this place , as an essential element in the question before us , simply because the national excitement which it provoked was soon directed against the institutions of the Baltic ...
Pagina 83
... remains of the army of Bour- bon until the spring of 1528 , the occupation having lasted ten months . Nor was it till the 6th of October in that year that Clement , pale , sick , and dejected , returned to his ruined and desecrated ...
... remains of the army of Bour- bon until the spring of 1528 , the occupation having lasted ten months . Nor was it till the 6th of October in that year that Clement , pale , sick , and dejected , returned to his ruined and desecrated ...
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Pagina 435 - Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
Pagina 27 - Give me my robe, put on my crown ; I have Immortal longings in me : Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip: — Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. — Methinks, I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of...
Pagina 105 - I propose to show in this book that a man's natural abilities are derived by inheritance, under exactly the same limitations as are the form and physical features of the whole organic world.
Pagina 395 - I think there is this one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it ; loves not truth for truth's sake, but for some other by-end.
Pagina 395 - He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it; for he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it, nor be much concerned when he misses it.
Pagina 100 - ... illogical; the usual course being for writers to collect instances of some mental peculiarity found in a parent and in his child, and then to infer that the peculiarity was bequeathed. By this mode of reasoning we might demonstrate any proposition ; since in all large fields of inquiry there are a sufficient number of empirical coincidences to make a plausible case in favour of whatever view a man chooses to advocate.
Pagina 256 - ... when I saw this incarnate fiend take a large carving-knife, and go to the grindstone to whet its edge ; I saw her pour the water on the turning machine, and watched her working away with the dangerous instrument, until the cold sweat covered every part of my body, in despite of my determination to defend myself to the last.
Pagina 186 - ... knowledge by any exertion of his mental powers, however exalted they may be; that it is made known to him by other teaching than his own, and is received through simple belief of the testimony given.
Pagina 253 - Whether Mr. Wilson understood French or not, or if the suddenness with which I paused disappointed him, I cannot tell; but I clearly perceived that he was not pleased. Vanity and the encomiums of my friend prevented me from subscribing. Mr. Wilson asked me if I had many drawings of birds. I rose, took down a large portfolio, laid it on the table, and showed him...
Pagina 4 - Chaucer, a new edition of him, from manuscripts and old editions, with various readings, conjectures, remarks on his language, and the changes it had undergone from the earliest times to his age, and from his to the present : with notes explanatory of customs, &c., and references to Boccace, and other authours from whom he has borrowed, with an account of the liberties he has taken in telling the stories ; his life, and an exact etymological glossary.