The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Bind 70A. Constable, 1840 |
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... mind , and that peculiar faculty of combining the data of tradi- tionary and acquired knowledge , which , in these eminent men , supplied the place of direct instruction in the principles of ma- thematics , mechanics , and general ...
... mind , and that peculiar faculty of combining the data of tradi- tionary and acquired knowledge , which , in these eminent men , supplied the place of direct instruction in the principles of ma- thematics , mechanics , and general ...
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... mind foresaw the difficulties and risks of so novel an undertaking ; but he foresaw also the possibility of surmount- ing them ; and heedless of the prejudices of the day , and finding his own views confirmed by the practical sagacity ...
... mind foresaw the difficulties and risks of so novel an undertaking ; but he foresaw also the possibility of surmount- ing them ; and heedless of the prejudices of the day , and finding his own views confirmed by the practical sagacity ...
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... Europe was to be turned into shame . His powerful mind , however , bore the affliction , and VOL . LXX . NO . CXLI . B In his posthumous wisely yielded to what he could not 1839 . 17 Life and Works of Thomas Telford .
... Europe was to be turned into shame . His powerful mind , however , bore the affliction , and VOL . LXX . NO . CXLI . B In his posthumous wisely yielded to what he could not 1839 . 17 Life and Works of Thomas Telford .
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... mind that a wide roadway might be obtained by means of a cast - iron addition to it ; for which purpose , upon the pier points I caused small pedestals to be constructed , projecting as much as the original width required . Upon these ...
... mind that a wide roadway might be obtained by means of a cast - iron addition to it ; for which purpose , upon the pier points I caused small pedestals to be constructed , projecting as much as the original width required . Upon these ...
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... mind by extensive reading , and acquired an amount of knowledge seldom pos- sessed by the most eminent of his profession . He never pre- tended to acquirements which he did not possess , and he loved to detect the greatest of all ...
... mind by extensive reading , and acquired an amount of knowledge seldom pos- sessed by the most eminent of his profession . He never pre- tended to acquirements which he did not possess , and he loved to detect the greatest of all ...
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Side 310 - England by lofty halls and by the constant waving of fans. The number of the prisoners was one hundred and forty-six. When they were ordered to enter the cell, they imagined that the soldiers were joking ; and being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were...
Side 317 - ... gloomily in his tent, haunted, a Greek poet would have said, by the furies of those who had cursed him with their last breath in the Black Hole. The day broke — the day which was to decide the fate of India.
Side 318 - The battle commenced with a cannonade in which the artillery of the Nabob did scarcely any execution, while the few field-pieces of the English produced great effect. Several of the most distinguished officers in Surajah Dowlah's service fell.
Side 96 - I scarcely ever met with a better companion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge ; but a thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his life stained with every vice, and his conversation full of blasphemy and indecency. These morals he glories in — for shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted.
Side 183 - ... unfeigned assent and consent as aforesaid, and subscribed the declaration aforesaid, and shall not take and subscribe the oath following : I, AB, do swear that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king...
Side 102 - Talking of the manner of Mr. Pitt's speaking, he said ' There he would stand, turning up his eyes to heaven, that witnessed his perjuries, and laying his hand in a solemn manner upon the table, that sacrilegious hand that had been employed in tearing out the bowels of his mother country !
Side 310 - Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
Side 192 - Richard, Richard, dost thou think we'll hear thee poison the court ? Richard, thou art an old fellow, an old knave ; thou hast written books enough to load a cart, every one as full of sedition, I might say treason, as an egg is full of meat. Hadst thou been whipped out of thy writing trade forty years ago, it had been happy.
Side 311 - The day broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors, by piling...
Side 176 - Papists and delinquents, and to remove the dividers, that the king might again return to his parliament; and that no changes might be made in religion, but by the laws which had his free consent. We took the true happiness of king and people, church and state, to be our end, and so we understood the covenant, engaging both against Papists and schismatics...