The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 114 |
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... independent men , have on many occasions rendered great service to the work
of legislative improvement and social reform in this country . These bodies ,
selected for a temporary and defined purpose , partake at once of the character of
...
... independent men , have on many occasions rendered great service to the work
of legislative improvement and social reform in this country . These bodies ,
selected for a temporary and defined purpose , partake at once of the character of
...
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... many arrangements in every school to the central office embarrasses the
Committee of Council with a mass of detail , the difficulty of investigating minute
and distant claims threatens to become an element at once of expense and of
dispute .
... many arrangements in every school to the central office embarrasses the
Committee of Council with a mass of detail , the difficulty of investigating minute
and distant claims threatens to become an element at once of expense and of
dispute .
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... once built is a permanent institution : we conceive therefore that this portion of
the grant may be so far reduced as to keep pace only with the growth of the
population . In 1861 . 11 Popular Education in England .
... once built is a permanent institution : we conceive therefore that this portion of
the grant may be so far reduced as to keep pace only with the growth of the
population . In 1861 . 11 Popular Education in England .
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But as a set - off against this expenditure must be taken the work done by them in
the schools , and the engagement to work as a teacher for an indefinite period .
To dispose at once of this last condition , we must observe that very little reliance
...
But as a set - off against this expenditure must be taken the work done by them in
the schools , and the engagement to work as a teacher for an indefinite period .
To dispose at once of this last condition , we must observe that very little reliance
...
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At every advance , he says , into the poorer districts you have to make a
relaxation of the conditions , which relaxation , when it has once been applied to
the poorer districts , must also be applied to the richer ; and he adduces the
example of ...
At every advance , he says , into the poorer districts you have to make a
relaxation of the conditions , which relaxation , when it has once been applied to
the poorer districts , must also be applied to the richer ; and he adduces the
example of ...
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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.