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for half-an-hour vehemently against the pungent irritation of an humiliating but inevitable destiny . We shall return to this volume ^ gain in a subsequent paper . Recollections of Russia during Thirty-three Years' Residence . By a German Nobleman . Revised and Translated , with the Author ' s
sanction , by Lascelles Wraxai , l . London : Constable . —The G-erman Nobleman ' s " Recollections of Russia" form the eighth volume of " Constable ' s Miscellany of Foreign Literature . " Mr . Wraxall assures his readers that he has , in confidence , been informed of the name of the author , who vouches for the authenticity of the information the book contains . It is manifestly written in a hostile spirit * The impression produced by these « Eecdlections" is , that Russia , k
now very much in the condition in which we were some years ago ; but with the important difference , that there existed in this country the germ of improvement , which has since developed itself in more freedom , more intelligence , and a stricter morality . Russia appears to want this germ , or at least there is no present appearance of it * She educates all her people ; but the nature of that education is strictly prescribed by authority .
The book is of a most interesting character , though the blood boils at the fearful details it gives of cold-blooded tyranny , and of a whole nation grovelling in debased insecurity before the nod of aristocratic injustice . Fhilosophie Logique . Par A . Geatey . 8 vo ., 2 vols . Paris : 1855 . —Fhilosophie de la Connaissance de Dieu . Par A . Geatev . 2 vols . Paris : 1854 . —We at all times feel a sincere pleasure in reading and
in reviewing the philosophical works of our Prench brethren . Clear , brilliant , and definitive , Prench has long since been the charmed tongue , through which even practical mathematics lost their gloominess—through which the abstruse German thoughts of Kant ( utterly ruined in an English version ) were handed down to many , whose knowledge of French enabled them to grapple with the most abstruse work of the most elaborate thinker of modern times .
And it is with pleasant recollections of Victor Cousin—of equally delightful ones of " Etudes sur le Moyen Age "—that we hail the appearance of the works , whose titles form the basis of our review .
Compelled as we are to restrict our notice to a hrevity that is sadly at variance with our own inclinations , we can only indicate a few general points , in which our author has shown equal logical ability , straightforwardness of purpose , and a liberality of opinion , which , in many Roman Catholics , is happily gaining ground rapidly . " La philosophic est le lieu de Perreur . " Such is the quaint commencement of our author ' s preface to the " Philosophic Logique , ' and we can but recognise the uncertainty of the arrangement of human thoughts—even as set forth by this very clever writer . Truth is , so to say , held still in solution ; its perfect nature still remains unanalysed . After a clear-headed sketch of the many fallacies and imperfections
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for half-an-hour vehemently against the pungent irritation of an humiliating but inevitable destiny . We shall return to this volume ^ gain in a subsequent paper . Recollections of Russia during Thirty-three Years' Residence . By a German Nobleman . Revised and Translated , with the Author ' s
sanction , by Lascelles Wraxai , l . London : Constable . —The G-erman Nobleman ' s " Recollections of Russia" form the eighth volume of " Constable ' s Miscellany of Foreign Literature . " Mr . Wraxall assures his readers that he has , in confidence , been informed of the name of the author , who vouches for the authenticity of the information the book contains . It is manifestly written in a hostile spirit * The impression produced by these « Eecdlections" is , that Russia , k
now very much in the condition in which we were some years ago ; but with the important difference , that there existed in this country the germ of improvement , which has since developed itself in more freedom , more intelligence , and a stricter morality . Russia appears to want this germ , or at least there is no present appearance of it * She educates all her people ; but the nature of that education is strictly prescribed by authority .
The book is of a most interesting character , though the blood boils at the fearful details it gives of cold-blooded tyranny , and of a whole nation grovelling in debased insecurity before the nod of aristocratic injustice . Fhilosophie Logique . Par A . Geatey . 8 vo ., 2 vols . Paris : 1855 . —Fhilosophie de la Connaissance de Dieu . Par A . Geatev . 2 vols . Paris : 1854 . —We at all times feel a sincere pleasure in reading and
in reviewing the philosophical works of our Prench brethren . Clear , brilliant , and definitive , Prench has long since been the charmed tongue , through which even practical mathematics lost their gloominess—through which the abstruse German thoughts of Kant ( utterly ruined in an English version ) were handed down to many , whose knowledge of French enabled them to grapple with the most abstruse work of the most elaborate thinker of modern times .
And it is with pleasant recollections of Victor Cousin—of equally delightful ones of " Etudes sur le Moyen Age "—that we hail the appearance of the works , whose titles form the basis of our review .
Compelled as we are to restrict our notice to a hrevity that is sadly at variance with our own inclinations , we can only indicate a few general points , in which our author has shown equal logical ability , straightforwardness of purpose , and a liberality of opinion , which , in many Roman Catholics , is happily gaining ground rapidly . " La philosophic est le lieu de Perreur . " Such is the quaint commencement of our author ' s preface to the " Philosophic Logique , ' and we can but recognise the uncertainty of the arrangement of human thoughts—even as set forth by this very clever writer . Truth is , so to say , held still in solution ; its perfect nature still remains unanalysed . After a clear-headed sketch of the many fallacies and imperfections