The Edinburgh Review, Volume 75A. and C. Black, 1842 - English literature |
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... Nations considered as Individuals , ) II.1 . Mémoire sur la Variation de la Temperature dans les Alpes de la Suisse . Par M. Venetz , ( Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweitzerischen Gesellschaft . Band I. 2te Abtheilung . ) 2 ...
... Nations considered as Individuals , ) II.1 . Mémoire sur la Variation de la Temperature dans les Alpes de la Suisse . Par M. Venetz , ( Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweitzerischen Gesellschaft . Band I. 2te Abtheilung . ) 2 ...
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... Nations considered as Individuals . 2 vols . 8vo . Tubingen : 1841 . THE HE local nature of the work which we have prefixed to this article , has led the writer into details comparatively uninteresting to a British public ; but the ...
... Nations considered as Individuals . 2 vols . 8vo . Tubingen : 1841 . THE HE local nature of the work which we have prefixed to this article , has led the writer into details comparatively uninteresting to a British public ; but the ...
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... nation must always be affected , and often is governed , by the general disposition of the millions who constitute it : it becomes a permanent reflection of the national character , and is tinged with all the peculiarities with which ...
... nation must always be affected , and often is governed , by the general disposition of the millions who constitute it : it becomes a permanent reflection of the national character , and is tinged with all the peculiarities with which ...
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... nations can be treated as persons . The enterprises of individuals , unsanctioned by their government , do not commit the nation . It is the duty , of course , of every government to do all that it can to prevent any of its subjects ...
... nations can be treated as persons . The enterprises of individuals , unsanctioned by their government , do not commit the nation . It is the duty , of course , of every government to do all that it can to prevent any of its subjects ...
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... nations may be equally vain , but one may desire to be admired for her power , another for her civilization , and a third for her integrity ; and others are to be found who , like Austria , seem utterly careless as to the opinions of ...
... nations may be equally vain , but one may desire to be admired for her power , another for her civilization , and a third for her integrity ; and others are to be found who , like Austria , seem utterly careless as to the opinions of ...
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Page 462 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 172 - But, gracious God, how well dost Thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness in the abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. O teach me to believe Thee thus concealed, And search no farther than Thyself revealed ; But her alone for my director take, Whom Thou hast promised never to forsake...
Page 169 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart ; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.
Page 232 - The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.
Page 169 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 254 - Yitruvius of ruin. He has bequeathed to us not a single doctrine to be called by his name — not a single addition to the stock of our positive knowledge. But no human teacher ever left behind him so vast and terrible a wreck of truths and falsehoods — of things noble and things base — of things useful and things pernicious.
Page 172 - Above it stood the Seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
Page 179 - Oh ! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...
Page 178 - For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as the snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly ! And the passionate strain that, deeply going. Refines the bosom it trembles through, As the musk-wind, over the water blowing, Ruffles the wave but sweetens it too...
Page 242 - One bookseller sent to the palace a copy of the most stinging lampoon that perhaps was ever written in the world, the Memoirs of Voltaire, published by Beaumarchais, and asked for his majesty's orders. " Do not advertise it in an offensive manner," said the King, " but sell it by all means. I hope it will pay you well.