The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 176A. Constable, 1892 |
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... carried off a quantity of specie . Two of the gang threatened to shoot the engine - driver and fireman , and then burst open the door of the car with dynamite bombs . † So late as the middle of January these robbers had not , according ...
... carried off a quantity of specie . Two of the gang threatened to shoot the engine - driver and fireman , and then burst open the door of the car with dynamite bombs . † So late as the middle of January these robbers had not , according ...
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... carried further . The important fact , however , for notice is the extraordinary delay caused by technical methods of defence , and the general laxity of the entire proceedings , which had little of the dignity of justice . This will be ...
... carried further . The important fact , however , for notice is the extraordinary delay caused by technical methods of defence , and the general laxity of the entire proceedings , which had little of the dignity of justice . This will be ...
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... carried to such an extreme that it is rather a desirable event for a man to be sent to a re- formatory : the sole objection to it from the prisoner's point of view is that he loses some freedom . It matters not for how long a period a ...
... carried to such an extreme that it is rather a desirable event for a man to be sent to a re- formatory : the sole objection to it from the prisoner's point of view is that he loses some freedom . It matters not for how long a period a ...
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... carried out at Elmira will clearly show this . Take , for instance , the account of part of the occupation of the day : - ' At 1 o'clock work is again begun , and at 4.30 ceases for the day . From 5 o'clock the General Superintendent is ...
... carried out at Elmira will clearly show this . Take , for instance , the account of part of the occupation of the day : - ' At 1 o'clock work is again begun , and at 4.30 ceases for the day . From 5 o'clock the General Superintendent is ...
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... carried out these well - written and finely illustrated volumes will explain . For a strong man , an experienced mountaineer , with skilled assistants such as the two Carrels , with ample stores , with letters of introduc- tion to ...
... carried out these well - written and finely illustrated volumes will explain . For a strong man , an experienced mountaineer , with skilled assistants such as the two Carrels , with ample stores , with letters of introduc- tion to ...
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Page 277 - It is not in parliament alone that the remedy for parliamentary disorders can be completed ; hardly indeed can it begin there. Until a confidence in government is re-established, the people ought to be excited to a more strict and detailed attention to the conduct of their representatives. Standards for judging more systematically upon their conduct ought to be settled in the meetings of counties and corporations. Frequent and correct lists of the voters in all important questions ought to be procured.
Page 187 - As for the making of knots, or figures, with divers coloured earths, that they may lie under the windows of the house on that side which the garden stands, they be but toys ; you may see as good sights many times in tarts.
Page 175 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Page 273 - Thrumming on an empty can Some old hunting ditty, while He doth his green way beguile To fair hostess Merriment, Down beside the pasture Trent; For he left the merry tale Messenger for spicy ale. Gone, the merry morris din; Gone, the song of Gamelyn; Gone, the tough-belted outlaw Idling in the "grene shawe...
Page 277 - I see no other way for the preservation of a decent attention to public interest in the representatives, but the interposition of the body of the people itself...
Page 41 - And yet is most pretended. In a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be, that I should fear to change it. Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportioned strength.
Page 418 - ... as sweet ; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of...
Page 88 - Poor in every thing but genius and philosophy, he had no property at stake, no family to fear for; but descending from the contemplation of wisdom, and abandoning the ornaments of fancy, he humanely undertook the task of conveying duty and instruction to the lowest class of the people. If I did not know him to be a Christian clergyman, I should suppose him, by his works, to be a philosopher of the Augustan age.
Page 416 - I have eaten his bread and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him...
Page 191 - The ingenious author of the Observations on Modern Gardening is, I think, too rigid when he condemns some deceptions because they have been often used. If those deceptions, as a feigned steeple of a distant church, or an unreal bridge to disguise the termination of water, were intended only to surprise, they were indeed tricks that would not bear repetition ; but being intended to improve the landscape...