The British Quarterly Review, Volume 5Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1847 - Christianity |
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... reading , experience , or perspicacity . Too rarely can the minister in a foreign court arrange his plans on anything like certain data . He is oftenest obliged to calculate merely on probabilities , and ... readers 10 DIPLOMATIC REFORM .
... reading , experience , or perspicacity . Too rarely can the minister in a foreign court arrange his plans on anything like certain data . He is oftenest obliged to calculate merely on probabilities , and ... readers 10 DIPLOMATIC REFORM .
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Henry Allon. What , however , is an ambassador , our readers will ask ? In the general sense of the word , the term means every diplomatic agent , and it is the business and the duty of such a diplomatic agent to endeavour to inspire ...
Henry Allon. What , however , is an ambassador , our readers will ask ? In the general sense of the word , the term means every diplomatic agent , and it is the business and the duty of such a diplomatic agent to endeavour to inspire ...
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... readers , in which he is likely to sit down to peruse the ' Institutiones Juris Naturæ et Gentium ' of Wolfius , or the Ques- tiones Juris Publice , ' of Bynkershoek , or Leibnitz's Codex Juris Gentium Diplomaticus , ' or Wenk's Corpus ...
... readers , in which he is likely to sit down to peruse the ' Institutiones Juris Naturæ et Gentium ' of Wolfius , or the Ques- tiones Juris Publice , ' of Bynkershoek , or Leibnitz's Codex Juris Gentium Diplomaticus , ' or Wenk's Corpus ...
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... readers will like him all the better for it . We name it the rather that we think this fault , and his occasional tendency to what is called ' fine writing ' ( than which we would any day rather have ' rough notes ' ) , are in danger of ...
... readers will like him all the better for it . We name it the rather that we think this fault , and his occasional tendency to what is called ' fine writing ' ( than which we would any day rather have ' rough notes ' ) , are in danger of ...
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... readers . If he goes into ecstasies at some splendid expanse of country , or gorgeous vegetation , he , with equal fidelity , comments upon the unutterable dreariness of the next bit of scrub , or sandy waste , that it may be his lot to ...
... readers . If he goes into ecstasies at some splendid expanse of country , or gorgeous vegetation , he , with equal fidelity , comments upon the unutterable dreariness of the next bit of scrub , or sandy waste , that it may be his lot to ...
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Page 410 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 401 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.
Page 410 - Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations : ask thy father, and he will shew thee ; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Page 354 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it : it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 317 - If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover the powers thereof; how far they reach; to what things they are in any degree proportionate; and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension...
Page 401 - From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 410 - The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth : while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Page 320 - Were it fit to trouble thee with the history of this Essay, I should tell thee, that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and' discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side.
Page 288 - ... righteousness, and peace, and joy, in the Holy Ghost.
Page 520 - It would be impossible for language to convey an idea of the state of distress to which the ejected tenantry have been reduced, or of the disease, misery, and even vice, which they have propagated in the towns wherein they have settled ; so that not only they who have been ejected have been rendered miserable, but they have carried with them and propagated that misery.