The Quarterly Review, Том 74J. Murray, 1844 |
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Страница 251 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Страница 159 - Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap ; which neither have storehouse nor barn ; and God feedeth them : how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Страница 180 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Страница 371 - and there grew up in consequence a general feeling that " it was a shame to tell Arnold a lie — he always believes one.
Страница 181 - It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculatist, will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do 'more harm towards their general adoption and improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense...
Страница 286 - Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Страница 16 - A GLACIER is AN IMPERFECT FLUID, OR A VISCOUS BODY. WHICH IS URGED DOWN SLOPES OF A CERTAIN INCLINATION BY THE MUTUAL PRESSURE OF ITS PARTS.
Страница 323 - In the course of a few days Pinel released fifty-three maniacs from their chains; among them were men of all conditions and countries, — workmen, merchants, soldiers, lawyers, &c. The result was beyond his hopes ; tranquillity and harmony succeeded to tumult and disorder, and the whole discipline was marked with a regularity and kindness which had the most favourable effect on the insane themselves, rendering even the most furious more tractable.
Страница 165 - Neither I should," answered the rittmaster ; " but that great leader, captain, and king, the Lion of the North, and the bulwark of the Protestant faith...
Страница 43 - I have always felt the effect of this early admonition, on the panels of the vehicle which conveyed me from school, 'Sat cito, si sat bene.' It was the impression of this which made me that deliberative judge— as some have said, too deliberative ; — and reflection upon all that is past will not authorise me to deny that whilst I have been thinking ' sat cito, si sat bene,' I may not have sufficiently recollected whether ' sat bene, si sat cito