The Quarterly Review, 188. köide

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John Murray, 1898

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Page 394 - My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man ?" JOHNSON. " Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men ; a rascal, who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been. Three or four nations have expelled him: and it is a shame that he is protected in this country.
Page 230 - Doctrines') a complete account of the leading Personages, the Institutions, Art, Social Life, Writings and Controversies of the Christian Church from the time of the Apostles to the age of Charlemagne. It commences at the period at which the ' Dictionary of the Bible
Page 8 - The objects of this Society are : — • TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE to Governesses in Distress, afforded privately and delicately, through the Ladies' Committee. ANNUITY FUND. — Elective Annuities to Aged Governesses, secured on invested capital, and thus independent of the prosperity of the Institution. PROVIDENT FUND. — Provident Annuities purchased by Ladies in any way connected with Education, upon Government security, agreeably to Act of Parliament.
Page 333 - Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women.
Page 467 - HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider.
Page 220 - EDITION OF THE WORKS OF LORD BYRON. A New Text, collated with the Original MSS. and Revised Proofs, which are still in existence, with many hitherto Unpublished Additions.
Page 437 - University, points out that these people comprised "in general a clear majority of those who, of whatever grade of culture or of wealth, would now be described as conservative people." A clear majority of the official class, of men representing large commercial interests and' capital, of professional training and occupation, clergymen, physicians, lawyers and teachers, "seem to have been set against the ultimate measures of the revolution.
Page 230 - British Quarterly Review. The two following Works are intended to furnish a complete account of the leading personages, the Institutions, Art, Social Life, Writings, and Controversies of the Christian Church from the time of the Apostles to the Age of Charlemagne. They commence at the period at which the ' ' Dictionary of the Bible " leaves off, and form a continuation of it.
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