 | 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...few faults, should have made two volumes so utterly worthless as to defy all criticism. The worst and the best that can be said of them is, that they are good for nothing. They contain four tales, professing to be pictures of English Life. If they be really... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 618
...is hard to set aside ; But seldom that which many tongues proclaim Fails altogether, — for a god b Fame.* There are also many other very curious injunctions,...This part is Moore's Almanack in verse, for the year 800, or thereabouts, before Christ, and contains directions as to lucky and unlucky days, which, we... | |
 | Richard Chenevix - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...and consist more in happy perceptions than in reasonings ; in verbal felicities than in thought ; and the best that can be said of them is, that they are extremely clever. The letters of Madame de Sevigm• stand very prominent among these works, and are... | |
 | William Swainson - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...of the best artists then to be met with in France : they are very inferior to those of Edwards ; and the best that can be said of them is, that they are recognisable. That they even still continue to be essential for purposes of reference, is entirely... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...Ionic columns, without a single touch of originality or genial feeling in any one of the buildings. The best that can be said of them is that they are a degree less miserably bald than those of Laing. encouragement from professional men, while one that... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...elephant is ! " " How majestic the lion I" And very likely — when they are at liberty ! As prisoners, the best that can be said of them is, that they are re- j markabiy disagreeable. As for the elephant, his want of symmetry renders him hideous. One animal,... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...society. As for the Mahomedans, they are traitorous and worthless vagabonds ; and as for the Christians, the best that can be said of them is, that they are good astronomers and mathematicians. This is why the government employs the latter to correct the calendar... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 560
...society. As for the Mahomedans, they are traitorous and worthless vagabonds ; and as for the Christians, the best that can be said of them is, that they are good astronomers and mathematicians. This is why the government employs the latter to correct the calendar;... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 250
...Rosycrucians and Gnosticks, they profess to a knowledge of things beyond what plain Scripture reveals. The best that can be said of them is, that they are befooled by their own Fancies, and the victims of distempered Brains, and ill habits of Bodie. Then... | |
 | 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 776
...darea hardly call his soul his own. The soldiers and sailors are serfs —they are not men. Perhaps the best that can be said of them is, that they are machines — machines for turning sour-trout into human nature. They are all — those forty or fifty... | |
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The best that can be said of them is, that they are befooled by their own fancies, and the victims of distempered brains and ill habits of body. 
