The British Quarterly Review, Volume 15Hodder and Stoughton, 1852 |
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... give precedence to Sir James . Few would have had patience to read as our author must have read , in order to write as he has written , on Luther , and Calvin , and Baxter ; on St. Francis and Loyola ; on the Port - Royalists and the ...
... give precedence to Sir James . Few would have had patience to read as our author must have read , in order to write as he has written , on Luther , and Calvin , and Baxter ; on St. Francis and Loyola ; on the Port - Royalists and the ...
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... give themselves to writing without intending to preach . We have no such meaning . Goethe is not a person to be classed among saints ; but he appears to have had his seasons in which he came under the influence of all good along with ...
... give themselves to writing without intending to preach . We have no such meaning . Goethe is not a person to be classed among saints ; but he appears to have had his seasons in which he came under the influence of all good along with ...
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... give a masterly view of the decline and fall of the Romano - Gallic province , and of the Merovingian and Carlovingian dynasties . The third lecture is wholly occu- pied with a powerful and highly laudatory delineation of the character ...
... give a masterly view of the decline and fall of the Romano - Gallic province , and of the Merovingian and Carlovingian dynasties . The third lecture is wholly occu- pied with a powerful and highly laudatory delineation of the character ...
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... give special encourage- ment to the study of the Roman law , that the military issue to which questions were brought before the feudal tribunals , might be displaced by an appeal to written laws interpreted by lawyers . By degrees these ...
... give special encourage- ment to the study of the Roman law , that the military issue to which questions were brought before the feudal tribunals , might be displaced by an appeal to written laws interpreted by lawyers . By degrees these ...
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... give you the finest shade of their meaning . We are disposed to suspect , however , that their logic is much more acute than com- prehensive - much more refined within certain limits , than safe as a whole . Our own Locke is singularly ...
... give you the finest shade of their meaning . We are disposed to suspect , however , that their logic is much more acute than com- prehensive - much more refined within certain limits , than safe as a whole . Our own Locke is singularly ...
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Page 297 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 81 - What are these, So withered, and so wild in their attire; That look not like the inhabitants o
Page 493 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 493 - Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Page 251 - For the first time for many months • it seems possible to send you a few words ; merely, however, ' for Remembrance and Farewell. On higher matters there ' is nothing to say. I tread the common road into the great ' darkness, without any thought of fear, and with very much of t ' hope. Certainty indeed I have none.
Page 507 - DEAR Harp of my country ! in darkness I found thee, The cold chain of silence had hung o'er thee long, When proudly, my own Island Harp ! I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song...
Page 1 - Henry J.) A Ride over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California, with a glance at some of the Tropical Islands, including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles.
Page 490 - WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave...
Page 507 - That even in thy mirth it will steal from thee still. Dear Harp of my Country! farewell to thy numbers, This sweet wreath of song is the last we shall twine; Go, sleep, with the sunshine of Fame on thy slumbers, Till touched by some hand less unworthy than mine.
Page 496 - Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood ! EPIGRAM.