The Quarterly Review, Volume 253William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1929 |
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... Government . ' I have a particular reason for asking half - an - hour's private conversation with you on a subject of some interest in the present state of publick affairs , I mean the " Quarterly Review . " The number of copies sold ...
... Government . ' I have a particular reason for asking half - an - hour's private conversation with you on a subject of some interest in the present state of publick affairs , I mean the " Quarterly Review . " The number of copies sold ...
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... Government holding situacons of consequence propose to him articles of the most opposite tendency without his having the means of knowing which with a view to His Majesty's service he ought to prefer . Now if every confidential quarter ...
... Government holding situacons of consequence propose to him articles of the most opposite tendency without his having the means of knowing which with a view to His Majesty's service he ought to prefer . Now if every confidential quarter ...
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... Government . Much of the trouble of those times was due to the heavy exactions of the Corn Laws ; and we must confess that , after an early and hesitating attempt on the part of a clergyman named Edwards to suggest that their repeal ...
... Government . Much of the trouble of those times was due to the heavy exactions of the Corn Laws ; and we must confess that , after an early and hesitating attempt on the part of a clergyman named Edwards to suggest that their repeal ...
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... Government of the people means public order and public order is morality . ' My Lord Chief Justice Hale used to say Christianity is part of the law , and why not Morality too ? ' The Court agreed with the Attorney - General's con ...
... Government of the people means public order and public order is morality . ' My Lord Chief Justice Hale used to say Christianity is part of the law , and why not Morality too ? ' The Court agreed with the Attorney - General's con ...
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... Government and to provide new Guards for their future security . ' Hence America's traditional sympathy with the Irish , the Egyptians , the Boers , and all that welter of races , creeds , and castes in the sub- continent of India ...
... Government and to provide new Guards for their future security . ' Hence America's traditional sympathy with the Irish , the Egyptians , the Boers , and all that welter of races , creeds , and castes in the sub- continent of India ...
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Page 367 - She dwells with Beauty — Beauty that must die; And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu...
Page 370 - All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth ; The grass is bright with rain-drops; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth ; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun, Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Page 339 - DELIVERANCE is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. Thou ever pourest for me the fresh draught of thy wine of various colours and fragrance, filling this earthen vessel to the brim. My world will light its hundred different lamps with thy flame and place them before the altar of thy temple. No, I will never shut the doors of my senses. The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight. Yes, all my illusions will...
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Page 363 - Arvi there are two rivers, Atoica and Caora, and on that branch which is called Caora are a nation of people, whose heads appear not above their shoulders ; which, though it may be thought a mere fable, yet for mine own part I am resolved it is true, because every child in the provinces of Arromaia and Canuri affirm the same : they are called Ewaipanoma : they are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts...
Page 342 - Such an emotional outbreak should have been taken advantage of in starting independent organizations all over India for serving our country. Let Mahatma Gandhi be the true leader in this; let him send his call for positive service, ask for homage in sacrifice, which has its end in love and creation.
Page 339 - ... of delight. Thou ever pourest for me the fresh draught of thy wine of various colours and fragrance, filling this earthen vessel to the brim. My world will light its hundred different lamps with thy flame and place them before the altar of thy temple. No, I will never shut the doors of my senses. The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight. Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.
Page 363 - They are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts, and that a long train of hair groweth backward between their shoulders.
Page 361 - ... of his feete, but rather sliding upon the water with his whole body (excepting the legs) in sight, neither yet diving under, and...
Page 372 - In Miss Brill I choose not only the length of every sentence, but even the sound of every sentence. I choose the rise and fall of every paragraph to fit her, and to fit her on that day at that very moment. After I'd written it I read it aloud — numbers of times — just as one would play...