The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 65A. Constable, 1837 |
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Page 50
... effect on the minds of the neighbouring people : and the Swedes seem to be fast hastening to the opinion , that the predominating power of their aristocracy is not the readiest way of obtaining the ordinary results of good government ...
... effect on the minds of the neighbouring people : and the Swedes seem to be fast hastening to the opinion , that the predominating power of their aristocracy is not the readiest way of obtaining the ordinary results of good government ...
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... effect ; every thing is clean and shining ; an eight - day clock stands in one corner , a cupboard in another ; benches and straight - backed wooden chairs ranged around the room ; and all the family occupations are going on , and ...
... effect ; every thing is clean and shining ; an eight - day clock stands in one corner , a cupboard in another ; benches and straight - backed wooden chairs ranged around the room ; and all the family occupations are going on , and ...
Page 66
... effect of this sudden and unprecedented multiplication of banks , if we estimated their in- fluence on the currency , by the mere addition they made to the issue of notes . This , in truth , was the least part of their ef- fect . The ...
... effect of this sudden and unprecedented multiplication of banks , if we estimated their in- fluence on the currency , by the mere addition they made to the issue of notes . This , in truth , was the least part of their ef- fect . The ...
Page 69
... effect this necessary contraction of discounts . She must either reject great numbers of the bills sent in to be negotiat- ed ; or she must raise the rate of interest so as to make fewer be sent in . The latter is uniformly almost the ...
... effect this necessary contraction of discounts . She must either reject great numbers of the bills sent in to be negotiat- ed ; or she must raise the rate of interest so as to make fewer be sent in . The latter is uniformly almost the ...
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... effect of this rise in the rate of interest on the part of the Bank , intended as it was known to be to assist her efforts to narrow the currency , so as to meet the drain for bullion , had a powerful influence . The market rate of ...
... effect of this rise in the rate of interest on the part of the Bank , intended as it was known to be to assist her efforts to narrow the currency , so as to meet the drain for bullion , had a powerful influence . The market rate of ...
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Page 363 - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 363 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 344 - It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth...
Page 363 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Page 278 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Page 363 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 466 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 325 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Page 343 - But it is possible to make laws which shall, to a very great extent, secure property. And we do not understand how any motives which the ancient philosophy furnished could extinguish cupidity. We know indeed that the philosophers were no better than other men. From the testimony of friends as well as of foes, from the confessions of Epictetus and Seneca, as well as from the sneers of Lucian and the fierce invectives of Juvenal, it is plain that these teachers of virtue had all the vices of their...
Page 343 - An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities. The wise man of the Stoics would, no doubt, be a grander object than a steam-engine. But there are steamengines. And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born.