National Review, Volume 10Robert Theobold, 1860 - Great Britain |
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... MADAME RÉCAMIER • Souvenirs et Correspondance tirés des Papiers de Madame Réca- mier . 1859 . • 347 ART . PAGE VI . - THE ACTS OF THE THE NATIONAL REVIEW .
... MADAME RÉCAMIER • Souvenirs et Correspondance tirés des Papiers de Madame Réca- mier . 1859 . • 347 ART . PAGE VI . - THE ACTS OF THE THE NATIONAL REVIEW .
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... Madame Paradis of distinguishing false from genuine Roman medals , which connoisseurs with eyes were unable to do ; and the still more astonishing circumstance related of Dr. Moyse , who with his fingers measured the length of a stroke ...
... Madame Paradis of distinguishing false from genuine Roman medals , which connoisseurs with eyes were unable to do ; and the still more astonishing circumstance related of Dr. Moyse , who with his fingers measured the length of a stroke ...
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... MADAME RECAMIER . Souvenirs et Correspondance tirés des Papiers de Madame Récamier . 1859 . SUCH is the title of a publication which has excited more curi- osity than any biography neither scandalous nor immoral that has appeared in ...
... MADAME RECAMIER . Souvenirs et Correspondance tirés des Papiers de Madame Récamier . 1859 . SUCH is the title of a publication which has excited more curi- osity than any biography neither scandalous nor immoral that has appeared in ...
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... Madame Lenormant for publishing them , and more particularly for the portrait she has so well traced of Mathieu de Montmorency , -the pearl of the book both for its beauty and rarity . There are three epochs in Madame Récamier's life ...
... Madame Lenormant for publishing them , and more particularly for the portrait she has so well traced of Mathieu de Montmorency , -the pearl of the book both for its beauty and rarity . There are three epochs in Madame Récamier's life ...
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... Madame Récamier's career , we must make an effort to picture to ourselves the total dislo- cation of all social order , or we shall never conceive the strange adventures and positions to which every body was reduced during the several ...
... Madame Récamier's career , we must make an effort to picture to ourselves the total dislo- cation of all social order , or we shall never conceive the strange adventures and positions to which every body was reduced during the several ...
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Page 413 - And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
Page 395 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Page 103 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 103 - Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying. Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O, hark, O, hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O, sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 90 - And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part, why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quenched, And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused, That she might look at will through every pore?
Page 78 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 408 - Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John : who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Page 124 - I claim, as a citizen, a right to legislate whenever my social rights are invaded by the social act of another." And now for the definition of these "social rights": "If anything invades my social rights, certainly the traffic in strong drink does. It destroys my primary right of security by constantly creating and stimulating social disorder. It invades my right of equality by deriving a profit from the creation of a misery I am taxed to support. It impedes my right to free moral and intellectual...
Page 395 - And fear came upon every soul : and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
Page 63 - Now, in what, you will ask, does the difference consist? Inasmuch, as according to our account of the matter, both in the one case and the other, in acts of duty as well as acts of prudence, we consider solely what we shall gain or lose by...