Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 35William Blackwood, 1834 - England |
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... British Constitution . " With this fine and unquestionably true statement of the general opera- tion of the monarchy on the public force , wealth , and activity of France , he contrasts the palpable evils brought upon her by the very ...
... British Constitution . " With this fine and unquestionably true statement of the general opera- tion of the monarchy on the public force , wealth , and activity of France , he contrasts the palpable evils brought upon her by the very ...
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... British Con- stitution . " At some distance , but connected with the argument , a passage of re- markable beauty , and of no less dig nity and wisdom , follows : - " All this violent cry against the nobility , I take to be a mere work ...
... British Con- stitution . " At some distance , but connected with the argument , a passage of re- markable beauty , and of no less dig nity and wisdom , follows : - " All this violent cry against the nobility , I take to be a mere work ...
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... British establishment . The fourteenth century sits for the picture of the nineteenth . The powers and assumptions of those , partly ecclesiastical barons , who rode at the head of armies of their own vassals , held high festivals in ...
... British establishment . The fourteenth century sits for the picture of the nineteenth . The powers and assumptions of those , partly ecclesiastical barons , who rode at the head of armies of their own vassals , held high festivals in ...
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... British monarch as a present to the Sublime Porte . Whilst engaged in conversation , one day , with Lord Byron , about Mr Hobhouse , with whom I had not then the honour of being personally acquainted , I remember his remark- ing , that ...
... British monarch as a present to the Sublime Porte . Whilst engaged in conversation , one day , with Lord Byron , about Mr Hobhouse , with whom I had not then the honour of being personally acquainted , I remember his remark- ing , that ...
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... British nation cordially and ge- nerally supported the principles of Mr Pitt's government ; the House of Commons , in general , divided 260 to 40 ; the House of Lords 80 to 7 , in his favour ; and even Mr Burke , whose prophetic eye and ...
... British nation cordially and ge- nerally supported the principles of Mr Pitt's government ; the House of Commons , in general , divided 260 to 40 ; the House of Lords 80 to 7 , in his favour ; and even Mr Burke , whose prophetic eye and ...
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Page 37 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 179 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Shar'on, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Page 513 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Page 22 - Not that Nepenthes which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly, or so cool to thirst.
Page 31 - Learning paid back what it received to nobility and to priesthood; and paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union and their proper place! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master! Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Page 36 - Every sort of moral, every sort of civil, every sort of politic institution, aiding the rational and natural ties that connect the human understanding and affections to the divine, are not more than necessary, in order to build up that wonderful structure, Man ; whose prerogative it is, to be in a great degree a creature of his own making ; and who when made as he ought to be made, is destined to hold no trivial place in the creation.
Page 184 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: 3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 525 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 36 - To avoid therefore the evils of inconstancy and versatility, ten thousand times worse than those of obstinacy and the blindest prejudice, we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution...
Page 35 - ... system to remove its corruptions, to supply its defects, or to perfect its construction. If our religious tenets should ever want a further elucidation, we shall not call on atheism to explain them. We shall not light up our temple from that unhallowed fire. It will be illuminated with other lights. It will be perfumed •with other incense than the infectious stuff which is imported by the smugglers of adulterated metaphysics.