The Quarterly ReviewWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1846 - English literature |
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Page 99
... depredations to the night ; we have encountered him often in broad daylight ,
and through our deer - glass have watched his manner of hunting the ptarmigan ,
which is not so neat , but appears quite as successful , as the tactics of the cat .
... depredations to the night ; we have encountered him often in broad daylight ,
and through our deer - glass have watched his manner of hunting the ptarmigan ,
which is not so neat , but appears quite as successful , as the tactics of the cat .
Page 100
... describing a successful day with the foxhunter : The fox having been too free
with the lambs , the sheep - farmer of the glen has summoned the fox - hunter ' s
assistance , and I join him with my rifle . Before daylight the fox - hunter and
myself ...
... describing a successful day with the foxhunter : The fox having been too free
with the lambs , the sheep - farmer of the glen has summoned the fox - hunter ' s
assistance , and I join him with my rifle . Before daylight the fox - hunter and
myself ...
Page 113
In one department of his lectures he exceeded any I have ever known — the
neatness and unvarying success with which all the manipulations of his
experiments were performed . His correct eye and steady hand contributed to the
one ; his ...
In one department of his lectures he exceeded any I have ever known — the
neatness and unvarying success with which all the manipulations of his
experiments were performed . His correct eye and steady hand contributed to the
one ; his ...
Page 117
... he continued to prosecute his chemical researches with a success
proportionate to his great skill and accuracy in devising and executing
experiments and his cautious habits of reasoning upon the legitimate
conclusions to which they lead .
... he continued to prosecute his chemical researches with a success
proportionate to his great skill and accuracy in devising and executing
experiments and his cautious habits of reasoning upon the legitimate
conclusions to which they lead .
Page 118
His perfect command of this instrument ( for it required to be skilfully and
cautiously used ) contributed in no slight degree to the successful prosecution of
many of his most important subsequent researches . But Mr . Cavendish ' s
published ...
His perfect command of this instrument ( for it required to be skilfully and
cautiously used ) contributed in no slight degree to the successful prosecution of
many of his most important subsequent researches . But Mr . Cavendish ' s
published ...
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Page 386 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 248 - Wherefore, O LORD and heavenly FATHER, according to the institution of Thy dearly beloved SON, our SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, we Thy humble servants do celebrate and make here before Thy Divine Majesty, with these Thy holy gifts, which we now offer unto Thee, the memorial Thy SON hath commanded us to make; having in remembrance His blessed passion and precious death, His mighty resurrection and glorious ascension, rendering unto Thee most hearty thanks for the innumerable benefits procured unto us by...
Page 254 - Search then the ruling passion : there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest.
Page 327 - Tis, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise ; but, to converse with heaven, This is not easy : to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from this world, I deem not arduous ; but must needs confess That 'tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desires ; And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul...
Page 231 - tis the trading and inferior sort that are for Presbytery : wherefore he bids me tell you, that if you will undertake to serve him to the purpose that he is served here in England, he will take you by the hand, support the Church and Order, and throw off the Presbyterians.
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Page 35 - His friendship and conversation lay much among the good fellows and humourists ; and his delights were accordingly, drinking, laughing, singing, kissing, and all the extravagances of the bottle. He had a set of banterers for the most part, near him ; as in old time great men kept fools to make them merry. And these fellows abusing one another and their betters, were a regale to him.
Page 16 - Divers of them have said that of such as were in my house when I was chancellor, I used to examine them with torments, causing them to be bound to a tree in my garden, and there piteously beaten.
Page 450 - Who was that Wisdom, and what was her name, "the Mother of fair love, and fear, and holy hope," " exalted like a palm-tree in Engaddi, and a rose-plant in Jericho," "created from the beginning before the world " in God's counsels, and " in Jerusalem was her power" ? The vision is found in the Apocalypse, a Woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
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| Title | The Quarterly Review |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1846 |
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