Letters of William Von Humboldt to a Female Friend: A Complete Edition, Volume 2J. Chapman, 1849 |
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Page 15 - ... be pleased with the easy, perspicuous, idiomatic, and harmonious force of the English style. But he will be still more satisfied when, on turning to the original, he finds that the rendering is word for word, thought for thought, and sentence for sentence. In preparing so beautiful a rendering as the present, the difficulties can have been neither few nor small in the way of preserving, in various parts of the work, the exactness of the translation, combined with that uniform harmony and clearness...
Page 23 - A HISTORY OF THE HEBREW MONARCHY from the Administration of Samuel to the Babylonish Captivity. By FW Newman.
Page 25 - The Cotton and Commerce of India. Considered in Relation to the Interests of Great Britain; with Remarks on Railway Communication in the Bombay Presidency. By JOHN CHAPMAN, Founder and late Manager of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway Company.
Page 24 - A Report of the Proceedings of a Meeting (consisting chiefly of Authors) held May 4th, at the House of Mr. John Chapman, 142, Strand, for the purpose of hastening the removal of the Trade Restrictions on the Commerce of Literature.
Page 20 - ESSAYS, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL. By James Martineau. 2 vols. crown 8vo, pp. iv. and 414 — x. and 430, cloth. 1875. £1, 4s. MARTINEAU. — LETTERS FROM IRELAND. By Harriet Martineau. Reprinted from the Daily News.
Page 23 - This is a book which rivets the attention, and makes the heart bleed. It has, indeed, with regard to himself, in its substance, though not in its arrangement, an almost dramatic...
Page 28 - Outram, CB, from the Office of Resident at the Court of the Gaekwar. With Explanatory Notes, and Remarks on the Letter of LR Reid, Esq., to the Editor of the Daily News. By J. CHAPMAN, Author of "The Cotton and Commerce of India, considered, in Relation to Great Britain.
Page 25 - The Roman Church and Modern Society. By E. QUINET, of the College of France. Translated from the French Third Edition (with the Author's approbation), by C. COCKS, BL 8vo.
Page 6 - PHYSICS, and CHEMISTRY, or the sciences of Inorganic Bodies ; and PHYSIOLOGY, and SOCIAL PHYSICS, or the sciences of Organic Bodies. " Under the head of SOCIAL PHYSICS the author treats of the general structure of human societies, of the fundamental natural law of the development of the human species, and of the progress of civilization.
Page 2 - Review unites a spirit of reverential sympathy for the cherished associations of pure and elevated minds with an uncompromising pursuit of truth. The elements of ecclesiastical authority and of dogma are fearlessly examined, and the results of the most advanced Biblical criticism are discussed without reservation, under the conviction that religion has its foundation in man's nature, and will only discard an old form to assume and vitalize one more expressive of its essence.