The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 9A. Constable, 1807 |
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Page 403 - Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, And continents of sand ; will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet?
Page 322 - Fill the wide circle of the eternal year : Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime : The fields are florid with unfading prime ; From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow ; But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale.
Page 373 - Three different units fell under the consideration of these philosophers ; to wit, the length of the pendulum, the quadrant of the meridian, and the quadrant of the equator. If the first of these was to be adopted, the commissioners were of opinion, that the pendulum vibrating seconds in the parallel of 45° deserved the preference, because it is the arithmetical mean between the— like pendulums in all other latitudes. They observed, however, that the pendulum involves one element which is heterogeneous,...
Page 341 - ... as far as in us lies, the mischief that may arise from the intermediate prevalence of so distressing an epidemic. It is hard to say what numbers of ingenuous youth may be led to expose themselves in public, by the success of this performance, or what addition may be made in a few months to that great sinking fund of bad taste, which is daily wearing down the debt which, we have so long owed to the classical writers of antiquity.
Page 284 - ... that the first race of Persians and Indians, to whom we may add the Romans and Greeks, the Goths, and the old Egyptians or Ethiops, originally spoke the same language and professed the same popular faith...
Page 341 - Ensigns and other provincial literati, and tempted, in that situation, to commit a feeble outrage on the public, of which the recollection would be a sufficient punishment. A third edition, however, is too alarming to be passed over in silence; and though we are perfectly persuaded, that in less than three years, nobody will know the name of the Wanderer of Switzerland...
Page 372 - Talleyrand, and decreed accordingly, that the king should be intreated to write to his Britannic Majesty, to engage the Parliament of England to concur with the National Assembly in fixing a natural unit of weights and measures ; that, under the auspices of the two nations, an equal number of Commissioners from the Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of London, might unite in order...
Page 341 - We took compassion upon Mr. Montgomery on his first appearance, conceiving him to be some slender youth of seventeen, intoxicated with weak tea and the praises of sentimental ensigns, and tempted, in that situation, to commit a feeble outrage on the public, of which the recollection would be sufficient punishment.
Page 142 - That is right ; I have now done." About half an hour after he desired, in a faint voice, that we would move him from the bed on which he lay to a cot, that he might lie with his lower limbs horizontal, and his head upright. He died in about ten minutes after we had moved him, but breathed his last so easy, that neither myself or my wife, who were both sitting close to him, perceived it at the time. He had put his hand to his face, which prevented our observing it.
Page 141 - ... he could wish for. He dwelt upon the peculiarly happy situation in which it had pleased the Divine Being to place him in life, and the great advantage he had enjoyed in the acquaintance and friendship of some of the best and wisest of men in the age in which he lived, and the satisfaction he derived from having led an useful as well as a happy life.