The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal ..., 10. köideJ. Ridgeway and sons, 1840 |
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... question whether the few or the many shall be the ultimate controlling power . That seems to be decided in favour of the latter in the minds of all observant and thinking men ; and the only problem with which the wise politician thinks ...
... question whether the few or the many shall be the ultimate controlling power . That seems to be decided in favour of the latter in the minds of all observant and thinking men ; and the only problem with which the wise politician thinks ...
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... question between king Ernest and his sub- jects that has as yet appeared ; but it does not give the rea- son of that prince's over - hasty and inconsiderate violence . The constitution of 1833 , although containing many improve- ments ...
... question between king Ernest and his sub- jects that has as yet appeared ; but it does not give the rea- son of that prince's over - hasty and inconsiderate violence . The constitution of 1833 , although containing many improve- ments ...
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... question , and shows that the pecuniary interests of the reigning house were more libe- rally provided for , and more surely established , than had ever been the case before ; the king's civil list having been esti- mated at a sum ...
... question , and shows that the pecuniary interests of the reigning house were more libe- rally provided for , and more surely established , than had ever been the case before ; the king's civil list having been esti- mated at a sum ...
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... question between king Ernest and his sub- jects that has as yet appeared ; but it does not give the rea- son of that prince's over - hasty and inconsiderate violence . The constitution of 1833 , although containing many improve- ments ...
... question between king Ernest and his sub- jects that has as yet appeared ; but it does not give the rea- son of that prince's over - hasty and inconsiderate violence . The constitution of 1833 , although containing many improve- ments ...
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... question by the avowed interest which the Prussian monarch has taken in the question , by the public expression of the opinion entertained by his ministers , and by the orders of knighthood with which that sovereign has decorated the ...
... question by the avowed interest which the Prussian monarch has taken in the question , by the public expression of the opinion entertained by his ministers , and by the orders of knighthood with which that sovereign has decorated the ...
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Page 99 - mid the steep sky's commotion, Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed, Shook from the tangled boughs of heaven and ocean, Angels of rain and lightning! there are spread On the blue surface of thine airy surge, Like the bright hair uplifted from the head Of some fierce Maenad, ev'n from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height — The locks of the approaching storm.
Page 103 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we, who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Page 105 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there All new successions to the forms they wear ; Torturing th...
Page 105 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown gray in vain; Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.
Page 291 - The RIGHT OF NATURE, which writers commonly call jus naturale, is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life; and consequently, of doing any thing, which in his own judgment, and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto.
Page 100 - The sunbeams are my shafts, with which I kill Deceit, that loves the night and fears the day; All men who do or even imagine ill Fly me, and from the glory of my ray Good minds and open actions take new might. Until diminished by the reign of night.
Page 98 - I stood within the city disinterred ; And heard the autumnal leaves, like light footfalls Of spirits passing through the streets ; and heard The mountain's slumberous voice at intervals Thrill through those roofless halls...
Page 447 - I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support and ornament of virtue's cause.
Page 464 - Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die : Remove far from me vanity and lies : give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord 1 or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 137 - I have had the honour of receiving your letter of the 8th inst.