The Quarterly Review, Volume 55John Murray, 1836 |
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... opinions of a man's legs . The head is the seat of thought . I am told that the French provin- cials are good Catholics : I can neither affirm this nor deny it . The men whom I have met in the provinces reminded me always of mile ...
... opinions of a man's legs . The head is the seat of thought . I am told that the French provin- cials are good Catholics : I can neither affirm this nor deny it . The men whom I have met in the provinces reminded me always of mile ...
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... opinion , is best entitled to issue his decrees from the Ferney of Germany . 6 But the Christianity of Germany was never , says Heine , the same thing with the Christianity of France - and he ascribes this to the essential difference ...
... opinion , is best entitled to issue his decrees from the Ferney of Germany . 6 But the Christianity of Germany was never , says Heine , the same thing with the Christianity of France - and he ascribes this to the essential difference ...
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... opinion a heretic . As to the evil principle , the empire of Satan , views varied according to climates ; and this happened because the Christian priesthood did not reject the old national divinities anywhere as empty dreams , but ...
... opinion a heretic . As to the evil principle , the empire of Satan , views varied according to climates ; and this happened because the Christian priesthood did not reject the old national divinities anywhere as empty dreams , but ...
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... opinion , any evidence whatever that Kant at any period of his life disbelieved the existence of the Deity . We next arrive at the second great name in this illustrious procession arrive 1835. ] 15 Heine on Germany .
... opinion , any evidence whatever that Kant at any period of his life disbelieved the existence of the Deity . We next arrive at the second great name in this illustrious procession arrive 1835. ] 15 Heine on Germany .
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... opinion on any subject whatever - and , lastly , in the sensual drift percep- tible and progressive in all that he did as a poet . ' Goethe's indifference was the result of his pantheistic contemplation of the universe . If God be in ...
... opinion on any subject whatever - and , lastly , in the sensual drift percep- tible and progressive in all that he did as a poet . ' Goethe's indifference was the result of his pantheistic contemplation of the universe . If God be in ...
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Page 472 - doing " — it seemeth rather a refreshing warmth, than a scorching heat, that he is so passive to. How equably he twirleth round the string ! Now he is just done. To see the extreme sensibility of that tender age ! he hath wept out his pretty eyes — radiant jellies — shooting stars.
Page 77 - O GOD of Bethel ! by whose hand Thy people still are fed ; Who through this weary pilgrimage Hast all our fathers led ! 2 Our vows, our prayers we now present Before thy throne of grace : God of our fathers ! be the God Of their succeeding race. 3 Through each perplexing path of life Our wandering footsteps guide : Give us each day our daily bread. And raiment fit provide. 4 O spread thy covering wings around, Till all our wanderings cease, And, at our Father's loved abode, Our souls arrive in peace.
Page 472 - We read of pigs whipt to death with something of a shock, as we hear of any other obsolete custom. The age of discipline is gone by, or it would be curious to inquire (in a philosophical light merely) what effect this process might have toward intenerating and dulcifying a substance, naturally so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs.
Page 471 - I speak not of your grown porkers — things between pig and pork — those hobbydehoys — but a young and tender suckling— under a moon old — guiltless as yet of the sty — with no original speck of the amor...
Page 115 - I do not love to be printed upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things, or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them, when I should be about the King's business.
Page 453 - Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it, and commit his poem to the flames — nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours: he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.'f Mr.
Page 453 - I wish popularity : but it is that popularity, which follows, not that which is run after; it is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.
Page 472 - Whether, supposing that the flavour of a pig who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremam) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting the animal to death ?
Page 482 - ... comfort as a private dwelling. Every member is a master without any of the trouble of a master. He can come when he pleases, and stay away as long as he pleases, without anything going wrong. He has the command of regular servants without having to pay or to manage them. He can have whatever meal or refreshment he wants, at all hours, and served up with the cleanliness and comfort of his own house. He orders just what he pleases, having no interest to think of but his own. In short, it is impossible...
Page 470 - THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE. THANKS, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter Never rang'd in a forest, or smok'd in a platter ; The haunch was a picture for painters to study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy...