The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 18John George Cochrane 1837 |
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Page 412 - And it ought to be remembered ' that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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Page 286 - Whereas the main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these and such like Questions.
Page 6 - The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise, In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to higher height ; Magnific limbs of withered state, — A face to fear and venerate...
Page 177 - ... and the story ends with the pious exclamation, " from which devill and all other devills defend us, good Lord! Amen." We have spoken of the collections of tales, which, at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries...
Page 380 - I show that revolutions have approximated Milton to us; that he is become a man of our times ; that he was as great a writer in prose as in verse ; prose conferred celebrity on him during his life, poetry after his death. But the renown of the prose writer is lost in the glory of the poet.
Page 175 - Rush demanded of his master what he should doe the next day ? his master answered, thou must rise early and goe to the field, and make an end of that which I was about this day ; (which was a great dayes worke) so when they had supt they went to bed.
Page 162 - Jews' harps, and ring bells and make answer to those that call them, and speake with certain signes, laughters and merry gestures, so that those of the house come at last to be so familiar and well acquainted with them that they fear them not at all. But in truth, if they had free power to put in execution their...
Page 175 - And with that she thrust the meate into the oven, and all that was upon the table. Where shall I hyde me, said the priest ? Goe into the chamber, and creepe under the great chest, among the olde shoone, and I shall cover you, and so he did.
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