The London Quarterly Review, Volume 4William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison Hamilton, Adams, and Company, 1855 |
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... Thoughts and Sketches in Verse- Blakey's History of Political Literature , from the earliest Times - Marquis de Custine's Russia - Spen- cer's Turkey , Russia , the Black Sea , and Circassia- The Englishwoman in Russia . By a Lady ...
... Thoughts and Sketches in Verse- Blakey's History of Political Literature , from the earliest Times - Marquis de Custine's Russia - Spen- cer's Turkey , Russia , the Black Sea , and Circassia- The Englishwoman in Russia . By a Lady ...
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... Thoughts - Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature : -Wanderings in Corsica . Trans- lated from Gregorovius by Muir . Vols . I. and II.- Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost , and other Papers . By Washington Irving . Author's Edition ...
... Thoughts - Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature : -Wanderings in Corsica . Trans- lated from Gregorovius by Muir . Vols . I. and II.- Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost , and other Papers . By Washington Irving . Author's Edition ...
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... as messengers of the evil one , thought that God sometimes constrained them to utter true oracles ; and they accounted in this rude way for the Origin of the Cathari . 9 Messianic prophecies , and 8 The Albigenses or Cathari .
... as messengers of the evil one , thought that God sometimes constrained them to utter true oracles ; and they accounted in this rude way for the Origin of the Cathari . 9 Messianic prophecies , and 8 The Albigenses or Cathari .
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... thought by Mosheim , Gibbon , and Maitland , to have been the immediate religious ancestors of the Cathari . It is well known that numbers of those religionists were transplanted into Thrace by Constantine Copronymus , about the middle ...
... thought by Mosheim , Gibbon , and Maitland , to have been the immediate religious ancestors of the Cathari . It is well known that numbers of those religionists were transplanted into Thrace by Constantine Copronymus , about the middle ...
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... thought . The idea that abstinence from food was meritorious in itself , the notion of impurity attached to the sexual relation , the growing tendency to look upon marriage as a state less holy than celibacy , these were so many ...
... thought . The idea that abstinence from food was meritorious in itself , the notion of impurity attached to the sexual relation , the growing tendency to look upon marriage as a state less holy than celibacy , these were so many ...
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Page 118 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 425 - One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head ; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper ; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct...
Page 414 - My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
Page 387 - If I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me,
Page 387 - The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Page 25 - See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Page 274 - Ah ! since dark days still bring to light Man's prudence and man's fiery might, Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force ; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power ? Others will teach us how to dare, And against fear our breast to steel ; Others will strengthen us to bear — But who, ah ! who, will make us feel ? The cloud of mortal destiny...
Page 112 - To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Page 47 - ... the end of the last and the commencement of the present century.
Page 544 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.