The Quarterly Review, Volume 86William 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 4
... soil , and other circumstances , though capable of vast changes by culture - all this , while furnishing much of curious illustration and analogy , can only slightly represent to us what pertains to the physical history of the human ...
... soil , and other circumstances , though capable of vast changes by culture - all this , while furnishing much of curious illustration and analogy , can only slightly represent to us what pertains to the physical history of the human ...
Pagina 11
... soil ; but when all is done , there will yet remain the void of time beyond , in which genius and diligence are alike lost and fruitless . The vast empires of China and India offer yet more striking examples of this imperfection of ...
... soil ; but when all is done , there will yet remain the void of time beyond , in which genius and diligence are alike lost and fruitless . The vast empires of China and India offer yet more striking examples of this imperfection of ...
Pagina 94
... soil , composing the meadows , can be made without forming embankments , or by pumping , or by resort to other expensive means . The greater num- ber of corn and other water - mills throughout England ought to be demolished for the ...
... soil , composing the meadows , can be made without forming embankments , or by pumping , or by resort to other expensive means . The greater num- ber of corn and other water - mills throughout England ought to be demolished for the ...
Pagina 99
... soil , we include , for our present purpose , the whole depth to which land is treated in our operations . All our readers will have heard of soils open and stiff - pervious or permeable , and impervious - porous and retentive . We mean ...
... soil , we include , for our present purpose , the whole depth to which land is treated in our operations . All our readers will have heard of soils open and stiff - pervious or permeable , and impervious - porous and retentive . We mean ...
Pagina 100
... soil beyond that which they are able to retain by attraction . The water of drainage in any soil will stand at a level like any other dammed up water . In order to avoid circumlocution , we shall ask leave to call this level the water ...
... soil beyond that which they are able to retain by attraction . The water of drainage in any soil will stand at a level like any other dammed up water . In order to avoid circumlocution , we shall ask leave to call this level the water ...
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Pagina 79 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : but the land whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Pagina 43 - That no person dissenting from the church of England in holy orders, or pretended holy orders, or pretending to holy orders, nor any preacher or teacher of any congregation of dissenting protestants...
Pagina 313 - Sì che sparte le chiome e senza velo Siede in terra negletta e sconsolata, Nascondendo la faccia Tra le ginocchia, e piange. Piangi, che ben hai donde, Italia mia, Le genti a vincer nata E nella fausta sorte e nella ria.
Pagina 479 - Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists."— I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people.
Pagina 479 - I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people. They whose narrow minds are contracted to the consideration of some one particular pursuit, view it only through that medium. A politician thinks of it merely as the seat of Government in its different departments ; a grazier as a vast market for cattle ; a mercantile man as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change ; a dramatic enthusiast as the grand scene of theatrical entertainments...
Pagina 313 - L'itala gioventude? O numi, o numi: Pugnan per altra terra itali acciari. Oh misero colui che in guerra è spento, Non per li patrii lidi e per la pia Consorte ei figli cari, Ma da nemici altrui Per altra gente, e non può dir morendo: Alma terra uatia, La vita che mi desti ecco ti rendo.
Pagina 478 - Year. When I considered the Fragrancy of the Walks and Bowers, with the Choirs of Birds that sung upon the Trees, and the loose Tribe of People that walked under their Shades, I could not but look upon the Place as a kind of Mahometan Paradise.
Pagina 479 - WHEN I consider this great city in its several quarters and divisions, I look upon it as an aggregate of various nations, distinguished from each other by their respective customs, manners, and interests.
Pagina 400 - Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Pagina 313 - O patria mia, vedo le mura e gli archi E le colonne ei simulacri e l'erme Torri degli avi nostri, Ma la gloria non vedo, Non vedo il lauro e il ferro ond'eran carchi I nostri padri antichi.