The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 118. köideA. Constable, 1863 |
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... difficulties of this kind in regard to events which happened nearly two centuries ago . It is absurd to suppose that every- thing should be easily explicable . Edinburgh may be a clerical error for Wigton . Or , it is quite possible ...
... difficulties of this kind in regard to events which happened nearly two centuries ago . It is absurd to suppose that every- thing should be easily explicable . Edinburgh may be a clerical error for Wigton . Or , it is quite possible ...
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... difficulties now raised up by legal subtlety . The executive of that day - of which almost every soldier in the service was an arm - did not stick at trifles . Why should they strain at a gnat while they swallowed a camel ? But Mr ...
... difficulties now raised up by legal subtlety . The executive of that day - of which almost every soldier in the service was an arm - did not stick at trifles . Why should they strain at a gnat while they swallowed a camel ? But Mr ...
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... sentence ? 6 This closes Mr. Napier's proof . We acknowledge he has raised difficulties which we have not been able entirely to lay ; but as it often happens that we cannot explain every 1863 . 25 Napier's Memorials of Claverhouse .
... sentence ? 6 This closes Mr. Napier's proof . We acknowledge he has raised difficulties which we have not been able entirely to lay ; but as it often happens that we cannot explain every 1863 . 25 Napier's Memorials of Claverhouse .
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... difficulties weigh a feather against the immense amount of positive evidence which we shall now produce to show that the two women were really drowned in the Bay of Wigton . We know no historical fact better established — not excepting ...
... difficulties weigh a feather against the immense amount of positive evidence which we shall now produce to show that the two women were really drowned in the Bay of Wigton . We know no historical fact better established — not excepting ...
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... difficulties experienced in the first contest with it , he will perhaps be astonished at the brevity of the passage which has given matter for so many enormous volumes occupies about a page of the Delphin octavo . The Druids , as we are ...
... difficulties experienced in the first contest with it , he will perhaps be astonished at the brevity of the passage which has given matter for so many enormous volumes occupies about a page of the Delphin octavo . The Druids , as we are ...
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Page 418 - The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the tories ; and the tories echoed every clap, to shew that the satire was unfelt.
Page 413 - I think Mr. St. John the greatest - -young man I ever knew; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners; generous, and a despiser of money.
Page 430 - Let us suppose in this, or in some other unfortunate country, an anti-minister, who thinks himself a person of so great and extensive parts, and of so many eminent qualifications, that he looks upon himself as the only person in the kingdom capable to conduct the public affairs of the nation...
Page 429 - I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower.
Page 342 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 406 - But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.
Page 432 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Page 400 - The Life of Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Secretary of State in the reign of Queen Anne. By Thomas Macknight, author of the " History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke.
Page 413 - I am thinking what a veneration we used to have for Sir William Temple because he might have been Secretary of State at fifty ; and here is a young fellow hardly thirty in that employment.
Page 31 - I will not; I am one of Christ's children; let me go :' And then they returned her into the water, where she finished her warfare ; being a virgin martyr of eighteen years of age, suffering death for her refusing to swear the oath of abjuration, and hear the curats.