The Quarterly Review, 163. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1886 |
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... attempt to develop the resources of his province , to remove abuses , or to introduce reforms . The provinces were the farm of the Roman people , and the provincials were the live- stock . Montesquieu sums up the condition of Rome and ...
... attempt to develop the resources of his province , to remove abuses , or to introduce reforms . The provinces were the farm of the Roman people , and the provincials were the live- stock . Montesquieu sums up the condition of Rome and ...
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... attempt at revolution should stand aloof and take part with neither side . Aristotle records the terms of an outspoken oligarchical oath taken on assuming office , ' And I will be malignant against the People , and will devise against ...
... attempt at revolution should stand aloof and take part with neither side . Aristotle records the terms of an outspoken oligarchical oath taken on assuming office , ' And I will be malignant against the People , and will devise against ...
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... attempt to pervert the ends of justice by corruption ? The litigant , no doubt , under- stood this threat , and said no more about the matter . A very curious form of corruption is mentioned by Sir W. Sleeman as prevailing in Oude at ...
... attempt to pervert the ends of justice by corruption ? The litigant , no doubt , under- stood this threat , and said no more about the matter . A very curious form of corruption is mentioned by Sir W. Sleeman as prevailing in Oude at ...
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... attempt to paint mankind or re- produce the actual conditions of existence . But at the close of the seventeenth century arose a new form of fiction dealing with real life , with man and his ordinary emotions . Heroic and medieval ...
... attempt to paint mankind or re- produce the actual conditions of existence . But at the close of the seventeenth century arose a new form of fiction dealing with real life , with man and his ordinary emotions . Heroic and medieval ...
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... attempt pathos ; he is dull to the more enthusiastic side of human nature ; scenery exercised no spell over his feelings . But his views of life are healthy and vigorous ; his morality sturdy and unaffected . Tom Jones could never have ...
... attempt pathos ; he is dull to the more enthusiastic side of human nature ; scenery exercised no spell over his feelings . But his views of life are healthy and vigorous ; his morality sturdy and unaffected . Tom Jones could never have ...
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Page 314 - The critic eye, that microscope of wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit : How parts relate to parts or they to whole ; The body's harmony, the beaming soul, Are things which Kuster, Burman, Wasse shall see, When man's whole frame is obvious to a flea.