The Edinburgh Review, Volume 59A. and C. Black, 1834 |
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... doubt ; if we had been aided instead of being op- posed by the enemy , we should have been successful . But let us hear Mr Moore again . The Dutch troops , which formed the ❝ most numerous part of the enemy's army , served slavishly ...
... doubt ; if we had been aided instead of being op- posed by the enemy , we should have been successful . But let us hear Mr Moore again . The Dutch troops , which formed the ❝ most numerous part of the enemy's army , served slavishly ...
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... doubt ; yet , we feel quite sure , that they are the least interesting that could possibly be selected from his papers . We have not indeed seen any thing to be able to assert this positively ; but from the general turn of Sir John ...
... doubt ; yet , we feel quite sure , that they are the least interesting that could possibly be selected from his papers . We have not indeed seen any thing to be able to assert this positively ; but from the general turn of Sir John ...
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... doubt aside . But how can any impartial person entertain a doubt , that both folly and faction were at work , when it is considered , that had the King of Sweden been only one degree less insane 1834 . 25 Moore's Life of Sir John Moore .
... doubt aside . But how can any impartial person entertain a doubt , that both folly and faction were at work , when it is considered , that had the King of Sweden been only one degree less insane 1834 . 25 Moore's Life of Sir John Moore .
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... Doubt is a situation of discontent , uneasiness , privation , if not of actual pain . Belief appears the more natural state of the mental system ; —the fulfilment and satis- faction of a physical want . There is consequently a secret ...
... Doubt is a situation of discontent , uneasiness , privation , if not of actual pain . Belief appears the more natural state of the mental system ; —the fulfilment and satis- faction of a physical want . There is consequently a secret ...
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... doubt , influenced , in the outset of their career , a far greater proportion of those who have become famous for their austerities , than either despair or fanaticism . Nowhere do these impulses find easier gratification than in the ...
... doubt , influenced , in the outset of their career , a far greater proportion of those who have become famous for their austerities , than either despair or fanaticism . Nowhere do these impulses find easier gratification than in the ...
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Page 129 - Moved with the heaven's majestic pace ; Or, call'd to more superior bliss, Thou tread'st, with seraphims, the vast abyss : Whatever happy region is thy place, Cease thy celestial song a little space ; Thou wilt have time enough for hymns divine, Since Heaven's eternal year is thine. Hear, then, a mortal muse thy praise rehearse In no ignoble verse...
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Page 177 - ... to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and send out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
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Page 174 - There while they acted and overacted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator ; they thought themselves gallant men, and I thought them • fools ; they made sport, and I laughed ; they mispronounced, and I misliked ; and to make up the atticism, they were out, and I hissed.
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