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الصفحة 79 - Sages, and mechanically abandons his refinements and his reasonings, and expands into a louder tone and more familiar manner as the assembly increases, and the temper of the popular mind is insensibly communicated to the mind that...
الصفحة 219 - GALT, Esq. 18mo. The splendour of Lord Byron's fame, and the interest attendant upon the story of his eventful life and early death, have combined to render his biography a work of more than usual attraction. Mr. Gait enjoyed the advantages consequent upon a long and intimate acquaintance with the noble poet, and has given a striking and satisfactory description of his mind and character.
الصفحة 219 - LIFE OF MOHAMMED, Founder of the Religion of Islam and of the Empire of the Saracens. By the Rev. GEoRGE BUSH, MA With a plate.
الصفحة 124 - Ce n'est pas comme général que je gouverne , mais parce que la nation croit que j'ai les qualités civiles propres au gouvernement. Si elle n'avait pas cette opinion, le gouvernement ne se soutiendrait pas.
الصفحة 206 - Taking the whole of life together, there exists not, nor ever can exist, that human being in whose instance any public interest he can have had, will not, in so far as depends upon himself, have been sacrificed to his own personal interest.
الصفحة 219 - ... in England. In one respect, the plan adopted by the author presents an improvement upon preceding memoirs of the great impostor, in the careful collocation of the chapters of the Koran with the events of the narrative, — a method by which the history is illustrated in a remarkable degree. The appendix, containing a series of prophetic investigations, is peculiarly curious, learned, and valuable.
الصفحة 135 - Wilkie is the Goldsmith of painters, in the amiable and pathetic humour, in the combination of smiles and tears, of the familiar and the beautiful ; but he has a stronger hold both over the more secret sympathies and the springs of a broader laughter than Goldsmith himself. If the drama could obtain a Wilkie we should hear no more of its decline. He is the exact illustration of the doctrine I have advanced above — of the power and dignity of the popular school in the hands of a master ; dignified,...
الصفحة 197 - The various systems that have been formed concerning the standard of right and wrong, may all be reduced to the principle of sympathy and antipathy.' One account may serve for all of them. They consist all of them in so many contrivances for avoiding the obligation of appealing to any external standard, and for prevailing upon the reader to accept of the author's sentiment or opinion as a reason for itself.
الصفحة 202 - Bentham ; the entire discrediting of all technical systems ; and the example which he set of treating law as no peculiar mystery, but a simple piece of practical business, wherein means were to be adapted to ends, as in any of the other arts of life. To have accomplished this, supposing him to have done nothing else, is to have equalled the glory of the greatest scientific benefactors of the human race. But Mr. Bentham, unlike Bacon, did not merely prophesy a science ; he made large strides towards...
الصفحة 220 - UAH-MI of his reading in works which treat of " the history of that dark chapter of human nature" to which this volume is devoted. In it he has laid open the stores of his memory, and strikingly condensed and elucidated the subject ; in many cases explaining, by most ingenious theories, occurrences which seem to lie beyond the boundaries of natural action.

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