The Quarterly Review, Volume 39William 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, 1829 - English literature |
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Page 104
... boys : If they offend , if they are detected in falsehood , if they slip from the yoke , if they murmur against it , or complain in ever so little a degree , let them be most severely whipt ; and spare neither the scourge , nor mitigate ...
... boys : If they offend , if they are detected in falsehood , if they slip from the yoke , if they murmur against it , or complain in ever so little a degree , let them be most severely whipt ; and spare neither the scourge , nor mitigate ...
Page 106
... boy who , whether slow of com- prehension , or stupified by terror , has stood untrussed and trem- bling before him . But ... Boys were flogged , not for any offence which they had committed , not for anything which they had done or left ...
... boy who , whether slow of com- prehension , or stupified by terror , has stood untrussed and trem- bling before him . But ... Boys were flogged , not for any offence which they had committed , not for anything which they had done or left ...
Page 107
... boys were served up to be flogged for the dessert . * On one such occasion , when Erasmus was present , he called up a meek , gentle boy of ten years old , who had lately been earnestly commended to his care by a tender mother , ordered ...
... boys were served up to be flogged for the dessert . * On one such occasion , when Erasmus was present , he called up a meek , gentle boy of ten years old , who had lately been earnestly commended to his care by a tender mother , ordered ...
Page 108
... boys were treated with such unnatural severity in the monastic schools , and those which growing out of those old establishments were conducted upon the old principles , the system of education pursued in nunneries seems , on the whole ...
... boys were treated with such unnatural severity in the monastic schools , and those which growing out of those old establishments were conducted upon the old principles , the system of education pursued in nunneries seems , on the whole ...
Page 109
... boys under him that the strong and ap- parently impatient feelings of this preceptor expended themselves upon the ... boy be made perfect in the nouns and verbs , not by rote but by reason , ' before he proceeds further ; and he is ...
... boys under him that the strong and ap- parently impatient feelings of this preceptor expended themselves upon the ... boy be made perfect in the nouns and verbs , not by rote but by reason , ' before he proceeds further ; and he is ...
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Page 431 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 6 - O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Page 112 - First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.
Page 286 - In perusing a corrupted piece, he must have before him all possibilities of meaning, with all possibilities of expression. Such must be his comprehension of thought, and such his copiousness of language. Out of many readings possible, he must be able to select that which best suits with the state, opinions, and modes of language prevailing in every age, and with his authour's particular cast of thought, and turn of expression. Such must be his knowledge, and such his taste.
Page 192 - He had not been long in confinement when he applied to the Court of King's Bench for a writ of habeas corpus...
Page 218 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Page 477 - They have invented a new language, which they call Greek : you must be carefully on your guard against it ; it is the mother of all heresy. I observe in the hands of many persons a book written in that language, and which they call the New Testament : it is a book full of daggers and poison. As to the Hebrew, my brethren, it is certain that whoever learns it becomes immediately a Jew.
Page 347 - Took up the lady's voice, and laughed again ; That ancient woman seated on Helm-crag Was ready with her cavern ; Hammar-scar, And the tall steep of Silver-how, sent forth A noise of laughter ; southern Loughrigg heard, And Fairfield answered with a mountain tone ; Helvellyn far into the clear blue sky Carried the lady's voice ; old Skiddaw blew His speaking-trumpet ; back out of the clouds Of Glaramara southward came the voice ; And Kirkstone tossed it from his misty head.
Page 522 - Synopsis of the British Flora arranged according to the Natural Orders; containing Vasculares or Flowering Plants.
Page 357 - ... part of our own force, offered to assist them in getting over, which was no sooner accomplished than the 85th found itself in the midst of very superior numbers, who, discovering themselves, called on the regiment immediately to surrender — the answer was an instantaneous attack ; a more extraordinary conflict has perhaps never occurred, absolutely hand to hand both officers and men.