The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 134A. Constable, 1871 |
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Pagina 8
... according to the information with which everyone was acquainted in the years immediately subsequent to the Crimean War , the loss of men by death and disease was alarming as a matter of humanity , whilst the waste in the country in ...
... according to the information with which everyone was acquainted in the years immediately subsequent to the Crimean War , the loss of men by death and disease was alarming as a matter of humanity , whilst the waste in the country in ...
Pagina 9
... according to such policy as it suits the Government of Russia to entertain . This view is held by all Russian politicians , generals , and engineers , in short , by everyone who is likely to be consulted with regard to the direction of ...
... according to such policy as it suits the Government of Russia to entertain . This view is held by all Russian politicians , generals , and engineers , in short , by everyone who is likely to be consulted with regard to the direction of ...
Pagina 13
... according to our Western views , lately conquered provinces might be held to be imbued with a strong anti - Russian spirit , and therefore to fail in military duty in the hour of trial , this does not seem to be true in practice . In ...
... according to our Western views , lately conquered provinces might be held to be imbued with a strong anti - Russian spirit , and therefore to fail in military duty in the hour of trial , this does not seem to be true in practice . In ...
Pagina 15
... according to such means as existed for the purpose . But how imperfect were those means of combination . How little could one part of the empire be brought into communion with the other parts . One section of this great country was left ...
... according to such means as existed for the purpose . But how imperfect were those means of combination . How little could one part of the empire be brought into communion with the other parts . One section of this great country was left ...
Pagina 17
... according to the traditions and precedents of the last seventy years . These traditions and precedents show very clearly that the bias of Russian policy is aggressive , that Russia has little to fear from the attack of any single Power ...
... according to the traditions and precedents of the last seventy years . These traditions and precedents show very clearly that the bias of Russian policy is aggressive , that Russia has little to fear from the attack of any single Power ...
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Pagina 216 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts,5 the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man.
Pagina 254 - And all is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear; Well roars the storm to those that hear A deeper voice across the storm, Proclaiming social truth shall spread, And justice, ev'n tho' thrice again The red fool-fury of the Seine Should pile her barricades with dead.
Pagina 228 - The most ancient progenitors in the kingdom of the Vertebrata, at which we are able to obtain an obscure glance, apparently consisted of a group of marine animals," resembling the larvae of existing Ascidians. These animals probably gave rise to a group of fishes, as lowly organized as the lancelet; and from these the Ganoids, and other fishes like the Lepidosiren, must have been developed. From such fish a very small advance would carry us on to the Amphibians.
Pagina 323 - For he makes me confess that I ought not to live as I do, neglecting the wants of my own soul, and busying myself with the concerns of the Athenians; therefore I hold my ears and tear myself away from him.
Pagina 216 - Secondly, as soon as the mental faculties had become highly developed, images of all past actions and motives would be incessantly passing through the brain...
Pagina 216 - Thirdly, after the power of language had been acquired, and the wishes of the community could be expressed, the common opinion how each member ought to act for the public good, would naturally become in a paramount degree the guide to action.
Pagina 74 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Pagina 306 - Plato exhibits the rare union of close and subtle logic with the Pythian enthusiasm of poetry, melted by the splendour and harmony of his periods into one irresistible stream of musical impressions, which hurry the persuasions onward, as in a breathless career.
Pagina 81 - Yea, I am found the woman in all tales, The face caught always in the story's face: I Helen, holding Paris by the lips, Smote Hector through the head; I Cressida So kissed men's mouths that they went sick or mad, Stung right at brain with me; I Guenevere...
Pagina 228 - The Simiadae then branched off into two great stems, the New World and Old World monkeys; and from the latter, at a remote period, Man, the wonder and glory of the Universe, proceeded.