The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 第 108 卷

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A. Constable, 1858
 

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第 85 頁 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
第 254 頁 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand ; Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
第 240 頁 - I find his grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me, as any subject within this realm : howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us), it should not fail to go.
第 127 頁 - Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind, Let all their thoughts be unconfined, And clap your padlock on the mind.
第 121 頁 - CANDOUR, - which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives are the same; — And finds, with keen discriminating sight, BLACK'S not so black; - nor WHITE so very white.
第 123 頁 - Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U — — niversity of Gottingen, — — niversity of Gottingen.
第 121 頁 - Both must be blamed, both pardoned ; — 'twas just so With Fox and Pitt full forty years ago ; So Walpole, Pulteney ; — factions in all times, Have had their follies, ministers their crimes." Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the candid friend...
第 510 頁 - I cannot tell, but conclude they were all lost. For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me and was pushed forward by wind and tide. I...
第 239 頁 - ... till he waxed weary. Verily, God be thanked, I hear no harm of him now. And of all who ever came in my hand for heresy, as help me God, else had never any of them any stripe or stroke given them, so much as a fillip in the forehead...
第 510 頁 - Six of the Crew, of whom I was one, having let down the Boat into the Sea, [xao] made a Shift to get clear of the Ship, and the Rock.

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