The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 52A. Constable, 1831 |
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... tion de l'Editeur , • X. 1. Memoir concerning the Origin and Progress of the Reform proposed in the Internal Government of the Royal Burghs of Scotland . By Archibald Fletcher , Esq . Advocate . 2. Considerations submitted to the ...
... tion de l'Editeur , • X. 1. Memoir concerning the Origin and Progress of the Reform proposed in the Internal Government of the Royal Burghs of Scotland . By Archibald Fletcher , Esq . Advocate . 2. Considerations submitted to the ...
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... tion : Such was the language of the ministerial advocates in both courts , for in both they made common cause . Never did they consider the second dissolution as any thing other than as a mark of transcendent genius , and an augury most ...
... tion : Such was the language of the ministerial advocates in both courts , for in both they made common cause . Never did they consider the second dissolution as any thing other than as a mark of transcendent genius , and an augury most ...
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... tion that awaits troops acting in a town thickly peopled by men determined to be free . The awful lesson now taught to all soldiers -the bright example now held up to all freemen - is the more worthy of being had in perpetual ...
... tion that awaits troops acting in a town thickly peopled by men determined to be free . The awful lesson now taught to all soldiers -the bright example now held up to all freemen - is the more worthy of being had in perpetual ...
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... tion upon our own concerns , relates to the kind of part which the English government has sustained throughout those events of which we have been sketching the history . That it labours under very grievous suspicions of having ...
... tion upon our own concerns , relates to the kind of part which the English government has sustained throughout those events of which we have been sketching the history . That it labours under very grievous suspicions of having ...
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... tion of all France , as well as her representatives , to reject the ministers , was stigmatized as unreasonable and factious ; the necessity of the Polignac ministry to internal peace , and the security of the throne , was plainly ...
... tion of all France , as well as her representatives , to reject the ministers , was stigmatized as unreasonable and factious ; the necessity of the Polignac ministry to internal peace , and the security of the throne , was plainly ...
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Page 373 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Page 231 - How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too ! Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry...
Page 237 - We conquer'd France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms; Britain to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow. Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine: Tho...
Page 307 - ... the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive : their work is more costly and less productive than that of independent artists ; and the new improvements so eagerly grasped by the competition of freedom, are admitted with slow and sullen reluctance in those proud corporations, above the fear of a rival, and below the confession of an error.
Page 204 - Do you disclaim this principle, in order to embrace a more rational opinion, that the perceptions are only representations of something external? You here depart from your natural propensities and more obvious sentiments ; and yet are not able to satisfy your reason, which can never find any convincing argument from experience to prove, that the perceptions are connected with any external objects.
Page 389 - It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature.
Page 511 - Of the origin of evil no universal solution has been discovered. I mean no solution which reaches to all cases of complaint. — The consideration of general laws, although it may concern the question of the origin of evil very nearly, which I think it does, rests in views disproportionate to our faculties, and in a knowledge which we do not possess. It serves rather to account for the obscurity of the subject, than to supply us with distinct answers to our difficulties.
Page 189 - ... the brain ; but, that he never supposed it to have an existence apart from the mental energy of which it is the object. Locke, he asserts, like Arnauld, considered the idea perceived and the percipient act, to constitute the same indivisible modification of the conscious mind. We shall see. In his language, Locke is, of all philosophers, the most figurative, ambiguous, vacillating, various, and even contradictory...
Page 235 - I pity, from my soul, unhappy men, Compelled by want to prostitute their pen; Who must, like lawyers, either starve or plead, And follow, right or wrong, where guineas lead!
Page 170 - Brown's transmutation of Reid from a natural to a hypothetical realist, as a misconception of the grand and distinctive tenet of a school, by one even of its disciples, is without a parallel in the whole history of philosophy : and this portentous error is prolific; chimeera chimceram par it.