The Edinburgh Review, Volume 62

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A. and C. Black, 1836 - English literature

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Page 474 - ... the fruits of their industry, and driven in the midst of an inclement season to seek a shelter for themselves and their helpless families where chance may guide them?
Page 45 - Travels in Ethiopia above the Second Cataract of the Nile ; exhibiting the state of that country and its various inhabitants under the dominion of Mohammed Ali, and illustrating the antiquities, arts, and history of the ancient kingdom of Meroe.
Page 448 - The former view of a countless multitude of worlds annihilates as it were my importance as an animal creature...
Page 451 - ... shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find dif-ferences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores: if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases:...
Page 440 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
Page 474 - A lawless banditti have constituted themselves judges of this new species of delinquency ; and the sentence they have denounced is equally concise and terrible. It is nothing less than a confiscation of all property and an immediate banishment.
Page 419 - If we consult reason, experience, and the common testimony of ancient and modern times, none of our intellectual studies tend to cultivate a smaller number of the faculties, in a more partial or feeble manner, than mathematics.
Page 303 - RISE, said the Master, come unto the feast : — She heard the call, and rose with willing feet ; But thinking it not otherwise than meet For such a bidding to put on her best, She is gone from us for a few short hours Into her bridal -closet, there to wait For the unfolding of the palace-gate, That gives her entrance to the blissful bowers. We have not seen her yet, though we have been Full often to her chamber-door, and oft Have listened underneath the postern green, And laid fresh flowers, and...
Page 282 - In Egypt no difference is observed between the mummies of men and those of Quadrupeds " We do not find in ancient fields of battle, that the skeletons of men are more wasted than those of horses, except in so far as they may be influenced by size ; and we find among extraneous fossils the bones of animals as small as rats perfectly preserved.
Page 237 - I may say without exaggeration, that never were so many words uttered without the least suspicion of exaggeration ; and that never was so much honour paid in any age or nation to intrinsic claims alone. A Howard introduced, and an English House of Commons adopted, the proposition of thus honouring the memory of a man of thirty-eight, the son of a shopkeeper, who never filled an office, or had the power of obliging a living creature, and whose grand title to this distinction was the belief of his...

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