The British Controversialist and Literary MagazineHoulston and Stonemen, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... spirit of the great poet of our own day we say , " Forward , forward let us range , Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change . " Yet amid all changes may we attain to the Changeless - having Him and His as ...
... spirit of the great poet of our own day we say , " Forward , forward let us range , Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change . " Yet amid all changes may we attain to the Changeless - having Him and His as ...
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... spirit of this precept Bacon also affirms that " the purpose and scope of laws , whereto their decrees and sanctions ought to tend , is the happiness of the people , " - to effect which they " must be clear and certain in their sense ...
... spirit of this precept Bacon also affirms that " the purpose and scope of laws , whereto their decrees and sanctions ought to tend , is the happiness of the people , " - to effect which they " must be clear and certain in their sense ...
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... spirit and practices of the world as those who make no profession of religion ; and it is a prevalent feeling , that a Christian may lawfully indulge in worldly vanities and pleasures . I. We propose to notice some of the ...
... spirit and practices of the world as those who make no profession of religion ; and it is a prevalent feeling , that a Christian may lawfully indulge in worldly vanities and pleasures . I. We propose to notice some of the ...
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... spirit of individual inde- pendence was infused into European society , a sentiment unknown to antiquity , and still unknown to Asiatic nations , and hence that creation of modern civilization - a middle class . It had no existence in ...
... spirit of individual inde- pendence was infused into European society , a sentiment unknown to antiquity , and still unknown to Asiatic nations , and hence that creation of modern civilization - a middle class . It had no existence in ...
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... spirit , soon scorning the trammels of Committees of Safety , and all such weak inventions of an unstable republicanism , quickly placed himself , first as Consul , and then in 1804 , as Emperor , at the head of the French people . This ...
... spirit , soon scorning the trammels of Committees of Safety , and all such weak inventions of an unstable republicanism , quickly placed himself , first as Consul , and then in 1804 , as Emperor , at the head of the French people . This ...
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Page 440 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works.
Page 56 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 222 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 35 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the -will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Page 362 - A hand that can be clasp'd no more Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.
Page 36 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands : their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away ! On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language — nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Page 180 - We would speak first of the Puritans, the most remarkable body of men, perhaps, which the world has ever produced. The odious and ridiculous parts of their character lie on the surface. He that runs may read them; nor have there been wanting attentive and malicious observers to point them out. For many years after the Restoration, they were the theme of unmeasured invective and derision. They were exposed to the utmost licentiousness of the press and of the stage, at the time when the press and the...
Page 223 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Page 365 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light : The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 217 - Love, now a universal birth, From heart to heart is stealing, From earth to man, from man to earth : It is the hour of feeling.