The Quarterly Review, Volume 77William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1846 - English literature |
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... Parliament of 1688-9 to the passing of the Reform Bill in 1832. By W. Charles Townsend , Esq . - VIII . An Act for the better Securing the Payment of Small Debts . 9th August , 1845 IX . - 1 . History of the Church in Scotland . By the ...
... Parliament of 1688-9 to the passing of the Reform Bill in 1832. By W. Charles Townsend , Esq . - VIII . An Act for the better Securing the Payment of Small Debts . 9th August , 1845 IX . - 1 . History of the Church in Scotland . By the ...
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... parliament held while Parnynge was Chancellor , in which he presided with dignity , although the inconvenience was felt of the Speaker not being a member of the House of Peers . The commons , not from any dissatisfaction with him , but ...
... parliament held while Parnynge was Chancellor , in which he presided with dignity , although the inconvenience was felt of the Speaker not being a member of the House of Peers . The commons , not from any dissatisfaction with him , but ...
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... parliament throughout all the stages of the usurpa- tion of Richard III . It is true that after Richard was seated on the throne he endeavoured to conciliate popular favour by some excellent legislative measures ; and it is probable ...
... parliament throughout all the stages of the usurpa- tion of Richard III . It is true that after Richard was seated on the throne he endeavoured to conciliate popular favour by some excellent legislative measures ; and it is probable ...
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... parliament . The language employed would not be unworthy of that great statesman bearing the same name , who in our own time framed and introduced Bills to abolish the Test Act , " and " to reform the representation of the people in ...
... parliament . The language employed would not be unworthy of that great statesman bearing the same name , who in our own time framed and introduced Bills to abolish the Test Act , " and " to reform the representation of the people in ...
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... Parliament , we have seen , continued to be framed in French until Richard III . - in whose time also they were first printed . But even to this day French is employed by the branches of the Legislature in their intercourse with each ...
... Parliament , we have seen , continued to be framed in French until Richard III . - in whose time also they were first printed . But even to this day French is employed by the branches of the Legislature in their intercourse with each ...
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Page 386 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 411 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Page 249 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him ? But ye have despised the poor.
Page 254 - Search then the ruling passion : there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest.
Page 412 - ... from the nature of the human mind, time is necessary for the full comprehension and perfection of great ideas ; and that the highest and most wonderful truths, though communicated to the world once for all by inspired teachers could not be comprehended all at once by the recipients, but, as...
Page 37 - His friendship and conversation lay much among the good fellows and humourists ; and his delights were accordingly, drinking, laughing, singing, kissing, and all the extravagances of the bottle. He had a set of banterers for the most part, near him ; as in old time great men kept fools to make them merry. And these fellows abusing one another and their betters, were a regale to him.
Page 19 - I must put your Highness in remembrance of one thing; and that is this: The Pope, as your Grace knoweth, is a prince as you are, and in league with all other Christian princes. It may hereafter so fall out that your Grace and he may vary upon some points of the league; whereupon may grow breach of amity and war between you both. I think it best therefore that that place be amended, and his authority more slenderly touched.
Page 1 - ... the lives and characters of a long succession of influential magistrates and ministers, and the manly style of his narrative. We need hardly say that we shall expect with great interest the continuation of this performance.
Page 563 - THE possible destiny of the United States of America, — as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen, — stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception.
Page 9 - And it came to pass when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished ; that Moses commanded the Levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your GOD, that it may be there for a witness against thee.