The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 52A. Constable, 1831 |
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... trade to be carried on with as much profit and as little risk as possible . He understood it to be quite otherwise in wars waged for the glory and independence of a tribe , which are often marked by the most signal displays of valour ...
... trade to be carried on with as much profit and as little risk as possible . He understood it to be quite otherwise in wars waged for the glory and independence of a tribe , which are often marked by the most signal displays of valour ...
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... trade , thirty years were spent in discussion , before a senate of enlightened Christians could be in- duced to act on the conviction , that man - stealing , torture , and murder , could never be lawful or expedient . They ought , there ...
... trade , thirty years were spent in discussion , before a senate of enlightened Christians could be in- duced to act on the conviction , that man - stealing , torture , and murder , could never be lawful or expedient . They ought , there ...
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... trade , it is melancholy to think on the necessary consequences of this supposed caprice of fashion . What a loss to unlucky publishers , whose floors are creaking under waste editions of condemned authors ! -what a mournful prospect to ...
... trade , it is melancholy to think on the necessary consequences of this supposed caprice of fashion . What a loss to unlucky publishers , whose floors are creaking under waste editions of condemned authors ! -what a mournful prospect to ...
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... trade of statesmen . Though many disadvantages attend the fact of parliament being the fashion , yet the general system must be singularly abused , either to vanity , interest , or spleen , before the public observation is roused , or ...
... trade of statesmen . Though many disadvantages attend the fact of parliament being the fashion , yet the general system must be singularly abused , either to vanity , interest , or spleen , before the public observation is roused , or ...
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... trade as to have made a calculation that he should really gain in numbers . But did he could he know so very little of his position , as to deem that any gain of mere numbers would cover its weakness ? Did he indeed fancy that so ...
... trade as to have made a calculation that he should really gain in numbers . But did he could he know so very little of his position , as to deem that any gain of mere numbers would cover its weakness ? Did he indeed fancy that so ...
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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.