The Foreign Quarterly Review, 18. köideTreuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1837 |
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Page 306 - 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 98 - ... that it was much better to fall into the hands of God, than into those of his enemies.
Page 10 - 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 201 - ... 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 432 - 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.
Page 203 - Mongst country farms he did resort and oft would folks annoy :] But if the maids doe call to him, he still away will goe In knavish sort, and to himselfe he'd laugh out hoe, hoe, hoe...
Page 234 - Yes." But if I now approach you with the request to explain to me the sense of the statement more precisely, you find after some consideration that the answer to this question is not so easy as it appears at first sight. After...
Page 202 - Whose sonne he was, and how hee'd grant whate'er he did demand : To any forme that he did please himselfe he would translate ; And how one day hee'd send for him to see his fairy State. Then Robin longs to know the truth of this mysterious skill, And turnes himselfe into what shape he thinks upon or will. Sometimes a neighing horse was he, sometimes a gruntling hog, Sometimes a bird, sometimes a crow, sometimes a snarling dog.
Page 200 - ... that the basket hung by, and downe fell priest and all into a great poole of water that was under the window : then went he into the stable for a horse and rode into the poole and tooke the rope that hung at the basket, and tying it to the horses tayle, rode through the poole three or four tymes.
Page 56 - Tultecans is, however, intelligible at a first glance. The sounds intended to be conveyed by the symbols are conveyed syllabically or heraldically. So far it resembles the Chinese. Indeed, the barbarous Mexicans adopted a mode of designating names, which may be also termed heraldic. The names common even up to this day among the North American savages and, therefore, in all probability, among their North American ancestors — such as " Wolf,"