The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 101A. Constable, 1855 |
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... least they must suppress dis- approbation — though they may be in fact discontented , they must appear to be contented ; though there may be a difference of opinions , they must make it seem as if there was perfect unanimity . The ...
... least they must suppress dis- approbation — though they may be in fact discontented , they must appear to be contented ; though there may be a difference of opinions , they must make it seem as if there was perfect unanimity . The ...
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... least with a strict prohibition of reporting , there would be a much stronger tendency to degenerate into a factious struggle for power between the leaders of opposite parties , with only a partial reference to the public interest . In ...
... least with a strict prohibition of reporting , there would be a much stronger tendency to degenerate into a factious struggle for power between the leaders of opposite parties , with only a partial reference to the public interest . In ...
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... least to mitigate the strength of their opposition . A Government . which is so weak as to form any such expectation will , however , in general find itself wofully disappointed . It will be told that the concession comes too late ...
... least to mitigate the strength of their opposition . A Government . which is so weak as to form any such expectation will , however , in general find itself wofully disappointed . It will be told that the concession comes too late ...
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... least , it might be so ; I can ' understand absolute monarchy , for I am myself the head of such an order of things ; but I cannot understand a represent- ' ative monarchy ; it is the government of lies , fraud , and cor- ' ruption ...
... least , it might be so ; I can ' understand absolute monarchy , for I am myself the head of such an order of things ; but I cannot understand a represent- ' ative monarchy ; it is the government of lies , fraud , and cor- ' ruption ...
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... least as far as it goes , perfectly trustworthy and reliable . There is no branch of scholarship which has left fewer traces in literature , or has received a more scanty measure of justice from history , than the faculty of language ...
... least as far as it goes , perfectly trustworthy and reliable . There is no branch of scholarship which has left fewer traces in literature , or has received a more scanty measure of justice from history , than the faculty of language ...
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Page 232 - I am forced, with all humility, and yet plainly, to profess, that I cannot with safe conscience, and without the offence of the majesty of God, give my assent to the suppressing of the said exercises: much less can I send out any injunction for the utter and universal subversion of the same.
Page 349 - I know a citizen who adds or alters a letter in his name, with every plum he acquires; he now wants only the change of a vowel* to be allied to a sovereign prince in Italy ;f and that perhaps he may contrive to be done by a mistake of the graver upon his tomb-stone.
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Page 313 - Such services can only be expected from one who has no will of his own, who surrenders his will in implicit obedience to that of another. Such obedience is the consequence only of uncontrolled authority over the body. There is nothing else which can operate to produce the effect. The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.