Bombay Quarterly Review, Volumen1,Tema 1Smith, Taylor & Company, 1855 |
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... hundred miles . " The whole of my time whether in the bungalow or on the road was de- voted to the enquiry , and what I now proceed to lay before you is a faithful account of what I have actually seen and heard . " There is a tone of ...
... hundred miles . " The whole of my time whether in the bungalow or on the road was de- voted to the enquiry , and what I now proceed to lay before you is a faithful account of what I have actually seen and heard . " There is a tone of ...
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... hundred and five thousand ? " We answer without hesitation , that if that sole landlord were the State , their condition would be at least as favorable as it now is , for the State could afford to be more liberal in its dealings with ...
... hundred and five thousand ? " We answer without hesitation , that if that sole landlord were the State , their condition would be at least as favorable as it now is , for the State could afford to be more liberal in its dealings with ...
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... hundred powers balance each other . Admira- ble as he was in all parts of his art , we most admire him for this , that while he has left us a greater number of striking portraits than all other dramatists put together , he has scarcely ...
... hundred powers balance each other . Admira- ble as he was in all parts of his art , we most admire him for this , that while he has left us a greater number of striking portraits than all other dramatists put together , he has scarcely ...
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... hundred fresh children's voices rose up there and sang a hymn to the Father Beneficent , and little George's soul thrilled with delight at the burst of glorious psalmody . His mother could not see him for a while through the mist that ...
... hundred fresh children's voices rose up there and sang a hymn to the Father Beneficent , and little George's soul thrilled with delight at the burst of glorious psalmody . His mother could not see him for a while through the mist that ...
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... hundred good qualities of the child . " ( page 465. ) Poor Rawdon even rises into dignity when he discovers that his wife has been trading on his honor ; misfortune seems to purge his past life , and a reader must be very hard - hearted ...
... hundred good qualities of the child . " ( page 465. ) Poor Rawdon even rises into dignity when he discovers that his wife has been trading on his honor ; misfortune seems to purge his past life , and a reader must be very hard - hearted ...
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Página 360 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Página 134 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Página 401 - It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical, and to discard what is irrelevant.
Página 401 - He is at home in any society, he has common ground with every class; he knows when to speak and when to be silent; he is able to converse, he is able to listen; he can ask a question pertinently, and gain a lesson seasonably...
Página 401 - ... every class ; he knows when to speak and when to be silent ; he is able to converse, he is able to listen ; he can ask a question pertinently and gain a lesson seasonably when he has nothing to impart himself ; he is ever ready, yet never in the way ; he is a pleasant companion and a comrade you can depend upon ; he knows when to be serious and when to trifle, and he has a sure tact which enables him to trifle with gracefulness and to be serious with effect.
Página 237 - ... and perfect precision; and you find his work perfect of its kind: but if you ask him to think about any of those forms, to consider if he cannot find any better in his own head, he stops; his execution becomes hesitating; he thinks, and ten to one he thinks wrong; ten to one he makes a mistake in the first touch he gives to his work as a thinking being. But you have made a man of him for all that.
Página 384 - ... and pursuing the trains of thought which his mother wit suggests! How much healthier to wander into the fields, and there with the exiled Prince to find "tongues in the trees, books in the running brooks!
Página 238 - ... those ugly goblins, and formless monsters, and stern statues, anatomiless and rigid; but do not mock at them, for they are signs of the life and liberty of every workman who struck the stone; a freedom of thought, and rank in scale of being, such as no laws, no charters, no charities can secure; but which it must be the first aim of all Europe at this day to regain for her children.
Página 386 - If he engages in controversy of any kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, though less educated minds ; who, like blunt weapons, tear and hack instead of cutting clean, who mistake the point in argument, waste their strength on trifles, misconceive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than they find it.
Página 62 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank, and fiery Hun, Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave ! And charge with all thy chivalry ! Few, few, shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.