The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 114A. Constable, 1861 |
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... appears to us to be open to grave doubts and objections . No attempt has , however , been made to conceal these differences of opinion ; for Mr. Senior , himself one of the Commissioners , has published in an octavo volume the papers ...
... appears to us to be open to grave doubts and objections . No attempt has , however , been made to conceal these differences of opinion ; for Mr. Senior , himself one of the Commissioners , has published in an octavo volume the papers ...
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... appear to us to have gone to the root of the matter ; and the recommendations made by them for the purpose of removing these defects would rather , we think , tend to augment them . We attempted in our April number of last year , when ...
... appear to us to have gone to the root of the matter ; and the recommendations made by them for the purpose of removing these defects would rather , we think , tend to augment them . We attempted in our April number of last year , when ...
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... appears to think they are beginning to be ) , that we should consign our first social concerns to the paid officials of the State , and make State administration the panacea of social evils ! It is a lamentable proof of the effect of ...
... appears to think they are beginning to be ) , that we should consign our first social concerns to the paid officials of the State , and make State administration the panacea of social evils ! It is a lamentable proof of the effect of ...
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... appears brilliant enough . A lad , the son of a day labourer earning 10s . a week , finds himself at the age of twenty in the receipt of 801. or 90l . a year . At twenty - two he may be earning 100 % . or 1207. a year - considerably ...
... appears brilliant enough . A lad , the son of a day labourer earning 10s . a week , finds himself at the age of twenty in the receipt of 801. or 90l . a year . At twenty - two he may be earning 100 % . or 1207. a year - considerably ...
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... appears to us to convey the severest animadversion on the whole plan . They are satisfied ( as we may well believe ) that the trained teachers not only are comparatively far superior to the untrained , but are , in every respect but ONE ...
... appears to us to convey the severest animadversion on the whole plan . They are satisfied ( as we may well believe ) that the trained teachers not only are comparatively far superior to the untrained , but are , in every respect but ONE ...
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Page 167 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 274 - I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.
Page 550 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 511 - WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right That music of my nature, day and night With dream and thought and feeling interwound, And inly answering all the senses round With octaves of a mystic depth and height Which step out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground...
Page 543 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Page 552 - But if the Government be National with regard to the operation of its powers, it changes its aspect again when we contemplate it in relation to the extent of its powers. The idea of a National Government involves in it, not only an authority over the individual citizens, but an indefinite supremacy over all persons and things, so far as they are objects of lawful Government.
Page 407 - That prelacy and the superiority of any office in the Church above presbyters is and hath been a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people ever since the Reformation (they having reformed from popery by presbyters), and therefore ought to be abolished...
Page 543 - One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Page 415 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.