The Quarterly review, Volume 53Murray, 1835 |
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... hand . Yet many authors recognised him , not indeed as author but as player ; and one , civiller than the rest , came up unto him triumphantly , his eyes sparkling with glee and satisfaction , and said consolatorily , " In due time , my ...
... hand . Yet many authors recognised him , not indeed as author but as player ; and one , civiller than the rest , came up unto him triumphantly , his eyes sparkling with glee and satisfaction , and said consolatorily , " In due time , my ...
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... hand by M. Klaproth . It may seem an ungracious office , now that Champollion is no more , to detract from his fair fame ; but flattery as well as obloquy should be silent over the grave . The merits of Champollion will be no less fully ...
... hand by M. Klaproth . It may seem an ungracious office , now that Champollion is no more , to detract from his fair fame ; but flattery as well as obloquy should be silent over the grave . The merits of Champollion will be no less fully ...
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... hands , the contents of all of which he ascertained . The third was a roll , of which the first pages were wanting , but ... hand that it was a real historical treasure ' - read the names of fifteen con- quered nations , among which were ...
... hands , the contents of all of which he ascertained . The third was a roll , of which the first pages were wanting , but ... hand that it was a real historical treasure ' - read the names of fifteen con- quered nations , among which were ...
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... hand of the god of Nubia . Each bears inscribed before him his proper name .'- Rosellini , p . 159 . During the reign of the successors of Osirtesen I . , * - this mighty monarch , who certainly ruled over the whole of Egypt , and proba ...
... hand of the god of Nubia . Each bears inscribed before him his proper name .'- Rosellini , p . 159 . During the reign of the successors of Osirtesen I . , * - this mighty monarch , who certainly ruled over the whole of Egypt , and proba ...
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... hand ( entering ) is a grand procession of Ethiopian and Asiatic chiefs , bearing a tribute to the Egyptian monarch , Thothmes III . They are arranged in five lines . The first or uppermost con- sists of blacks , and others of a red ...
... hand ( entering ) is a grand procession of Ethiopian and Asiatic chiefs , bearing a tribute to the Egyptian monarch , Thothmes III . They are arranged in five lines . The first or uppermost con- sists of blacks , and others of a red ...
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Page 92 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman; 6 this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Page 173 - ... from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it : and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
Page 170 - Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
Page 463 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 148 - And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night...
Page 476 - Now them that are such we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Page 157 - What we have said of miracles, may be applied, without any variation, to prophecies; and indeed all prophecies are real miracles, and as such only can be admitted as proofs of any revelation.
Page 84 - What would'st thou have a good great man obtain? Place? titles? salary? a gilded chain? Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Page 92 - Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.