The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 61A. Constable, 1835 |
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... tion prevents the factious and discontented spirit which the choice of an abler person would have occasioned and so a popu- lar minister of inferior talents may be far better to govern a country than one of greater genius whom his ...
... tion prevents the factious and discontented spirit which the choice of an abler person would have occasioned and so a popu- lar minister of inferior talents may be far better to govern a country than one of greater genius whom his ...
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... tion of Sir Francis Burdett - that , having the Bill , we need give ourselves no care who works it , who rules by it , nay , who repre- sents us under it . On this we will only say , that if such be a true account of the matter , or any ...
... tion of Sir Francis Burdett - that , having the Bill , we need give ourselves no care who works it , who rules by it , nay , who repre- sents us under it . On this we will only say , that if such be a true account of the matter , or any ...
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... tion of its efficacy for this purpose be not counterbalanced by any other evil which it may produce , or any other risk to which it may expose us . A single instance , we may therefore observe , of evil resulting from any system , nay ...
... tion of its efficacy for this purpose be not counterbalanced by any other evil which it may produce , or any other risk to which it may expose us . A single instance , we may therefore observe , of evil resulting from any system , nay ...
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... tion . Such is the following beautiful song of Pitcairn's Island , sung by some island Neuha to her English Torquil - to our minds the finest with , perhaps , the exception of the noble lines , ' The • Indian at the Burying - Place of ...
... tion . Such is the following beautiful song of Pitcairn's Island , sung by some island Neuha to her English Torquil - to our minds the finest with , perhaps , the exception of the noble lines , ' The • Indian at the Burying - Place of ...
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... in such vivid juxtaposi- tion the associations of childhood and age , could have written any thing so unfortunate , both in conception and execution , as ' Parrhasius ; ' and equally so that any one 1835 . 37 American Poetry .
... in such vivid juxtaposi- tion the associations of childhood and age , could have written any thing so unfortunate , both in conception and execution , as ' Parrhasius ; ' and equally so that any one 1835 . 37 American Poetry .
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