The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Том 54A. Constable, 1831 |
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... labour had risen ; and those rising men of letters , with whom Johnson was henceforth to associate , were for the most part persons widely different from those who had walked about with him all night in the streets , for want of a ...
... labour had risen ; and those rising men of letters , with whom Johnson was henceforth to associate , were for the most part persons widely different from those who had walked about with him all night in the streets , for want of a ...
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... labour to prove that the treatise was as anonymous * as his own essay , and was intended by the Great Unknown , ' who com- posed it , for a mere confidential communication . ' Hence , it seems , it must follow that whatever is ex ...
... labour to prove that the treatise was as anonymous * as his own essay , and was intended by the Great Unknown , ' who com- posed it , for a mere confidential communication . ' Hence , it seems , it must follow that whatever is ex ...
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... labour as the lot of man , it endeavours to direct the labour of the poor into a channel where they may claim a recompense from the exigencies of others , and not from their compassion . It would endow them with a right to receive ...
... labour as the lot of man , it endeavours to direct the labour of the poor into a channel where they may claim a recompense from the exigencies of others , and not from their compassion . It would endow them with a right to receive ...
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... labour are unfavourable to poetry , or that a talent for it is less inborn than acquired , or that it is much affected by external circumstances , or that a considerable degree of education is essential to its full developement . To ...
... labour are unfavourable to poetry , or that a talent for it is less inborn than acquired , or that it is much affected by external circumstances , or that a considerable degree of education is essential to its full developement . To ...
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... labour and in- dustry of man ; while the latter arises from wholly distinct sources ; being derived from that which cost neither labour nor industry of any sort . It is of the last portion only that Mr Ricardo treats in his chapter on ...
... labour and in- dustry of man ; while the latter arises from wholly distinct sources ; being derived from that which cost neither labour nor industry of any sort . It is of the last portion only that Mr Ricardo treats in his chapter on ...
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Страница 4 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.
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Страница 20 - Sir Adam introduced the ancient Greeks and Romans. JOHNSON, " Sir, the mass of both of them were barbarians. The mass of every people must be barbarous where there is no printing, and consequently knowledge is not generally diffused. Knowledge is diffused among our people by the newspapers.
Страница 87 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Страница 24 - ... wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches; we see the heavy form rolling; we hear it puffing; and then comes the " Why, sir !
Страница 86 - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Страница 433 - The way, hardly discernible in gloom, runs close by the mouth of the burning pit, which sends forth its flames, its noisome smoke, and its hideous shapes, to terrify the adventurer. Thence he goes on, amidst the snares and pitfalls, with the mangled bodies of those who have perished lying in the ditch by his side. At the end...
Страница 15 - Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, stripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues. Alas ! sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.
Страница 2 - We arc not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived ; and he has beaten them all.
Страница 438 - I walked," says he, with his own peculiar eloquence, to a neighbouring town ; and sat down upon a settle in the street, and fell into a very deep pause about the most fearful state my sin had brought me to ; and after long musing, I lifted up my head ; but methought I saw as if the sun that shineth in the heavens did grudge to give me light; and as if the very stones in the street, and tiles upon the houses, did band themselves against me.