The Edinburgh Review, Volume 64A. and C. Black, 1837 |
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Page 214
... society of a man of talents occupying an eminent position ; but if knowledge be argumentative and wit agonistic , the society becomes an arena , and loses all merit as a mode of relaxa- tion . An adequate proportion of women will ...
... society of a man of talents occupying an eminent position ; but if knowledge be argumentative and wit agonistic , the society becomes an arena , and loses all merit as a mode of relaxa- tion . An adequate proportion of women will ...
Page 339
... society when he is restored to it . What society has to look to , is to secure his future obedience to the law ; and this , which in a repressive prison is effected by striking terror into both the offender and the public , is , in a ...
... society when he is restored to it . What society has to look to , is to secure his future obedience to the law ; and this , which in a repressive prison is effected by striking terror into both the offender and the public , is , in a ...
Page 493
... society ; the only difference between an unimproved and an improved state of society will be the nature of the check employed - in the one case misery and vices of an atrocious kind ; in the other , moral restraint , toge- ther with ...
... society ; the only difference between an unimproved and an improved state of society will be the nature of the check employed - in the one case misery and vices of an atrocious kind ; in the other , moral restraint , toge- ther with ...
Contents
Sir Thomas Brownes Works including his Life | 1 |
Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan and on the site | 35 |
Poggii Epistolæ Editas collegit et emendavit pleras | 60 |
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