Excerpt from Edinburgh Review, 1861, Vol. 144: Or Critical Journal; For July, 1861 October, 1861, to Be Continued Quarterly The Commissioners estimate the number of schools and scholars in England and Wales in the year 1858 at the follow ing amount. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 113: Or Critical Journal; For January, 1861 April, 1861; To Be Continued Quarterly Auckland: with a Preface and Introduction. By the Right Honourable and Right Reverend the Bishop of Bath and Wells. 2 vols. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This work is a supplement to the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.
Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 144: July, 1876-October, 1876 When. Therefore, we are able to contemplate - as those who live at the present day are privileged to do - the growth of a naval force in its completeness, and to witness the whole course of its history from its inception to its latest phase, the interest with which we do so may well be scientific, as it may be en vions or patriotic. We may learn how much of our own organisation and customs or regulations has been deemed worthy of imitation by the founders of a service turned out of hand, as it were, complete and finished from the first. We may see how far a force so established may differ from our own, the almost insensible growth of centuries, and in what points the divergence is to be found. The German navy, though by no means an unique instance, amidst the many navies of recent establishment, exactly supplies these condi tions. Its connexion with our own has been somewhat close. Many of its officers have studied their profession and learned its duties on board British ships. Several of its ships still retain the names which belonged to them when they were in cluded in our own Navy List.' The most powerful of those which now compose it were constructed in this country from designs supplied by our own naval architects. Moreover, it has attained to such a respectable degree of strength as to have quite recently attracted to itself the attention of Europe. The extraordinary ability exhibited by the administrators of Germany, or more correctly of Prussia, in organising and perfecting their vast military power, might reasonably enough be expected to extend to the institution of their naval force. It is, perhaps, a sufficient fulfilment of such expectation that the German navy has already come to be regarded as a factor of no small importance in the political calculations of the day. Such calculations are admittedly less accurate than the rigorous operations of more exact sciences. So it may be quite worth our while to ascertain the just value of this late addition to the stupendous warlike might of Germany. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This work is the last in the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.
If it is not generally known that the foundations of twentieth-century criticism of Shakespeare’s imagery were laid over one hundred and fifty years ago, the explanation lies in the limited availability of the single original edition of Walter Whiter’s Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare published in 1794. In an age in which the study of Shakespeare’s characters was of prime interest and importance, Whiter – a classical scholar who took holy orders and ended his life as a country parson – developed a form of textual criticism closely linked to a study of the workings of the human mind: and his book offers a psychological survey of the creative imagination, following the principles laid down in Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding and illustrated by examples from Shakespeare’s plays. In his realization that Shakespeare provides the finest examples of the poetic imagination Whiter is of his time: but in his particular study of the associative powers of such a mind engaged in the process of creation, he is far in advance of his time and has no immediate disciples in the later nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, however, there was an increasing acknowledgement of Whiter’s work and a more frequent appeal for the reissue of his book. Originally published in 1967, the present edition was started in response to that appeal more than ten years before Mr Alan Over’s tragic death in 1964 and incorporates the revisions and additions made by Whiter for his own projected second edition.
