The British Quarterly Review, Volume 15Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1852 - Christianity |
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... Reform Bill . By John Arthur Roebuck , M.P. 390 VI . The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe , consti- tuting a complete History of the Literature of Sweden , Denmark , Norway , and Iceland , with copious Speci- mens from the most ...
... Reform Bill . By John Arthur Roebuck , M.P. 390 VI . The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe , consti- tuting a complete History of the Literature of Sweden , Denmark , Norway , and Iceland , with copious Speci- mens from the most ...
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... Reform party among the Methodists , or has expressed any opinion publicly on the controversy now in progress in that body . In a great number of instances the reformers have solicited the use of our chapels without obtaining them . In ...
... Reform party among the Methodists , or has expressed any opinion publicly on the controversy now in progress in that body . In a great number of instances the reformers have solicited the use of our chapels without obtaining them . In ...
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... Reform ' Methodists and their sympathizers , in such lights , as to make it very clear , as we think , that both these parties may be right - minded people in the main , and entitled to a much more lenient verdict than the temper of Mr ...
... Reform ' Methodists and their sympathizers , in such lights , as to make it very clear , as we think , that both these parties may be right - minded people in the main , and entitled to a much more lenient verdict than the temper of Mr ...
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... reform , than they can possibly do with a postage duty equal to the whole price of the paper they may wish to purchase . Should Government decide upon issuing halfpenny stamped envelopes for all newspapers , and other printed matter not ...
... reform , than they can possibly do with a postage duty equal to the whole price of the paper they may wish to purchase . Should Government decide upon issuing halfpenny stamped envelopes for all newspapers , and other printed matter not ...
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... Reform Bill it was purchased by Mr. John East- hope , a stock - broker , for 17,000l .; and a large sum was expended for several years , with considerable success , in the attempt to raise it to its former position . But the old spirit ...
... Reform Bill it was purchased by Mr. John East- hope , a stock - broker , for 17,000l .; and a large sum was expended for several years , with considerable success , in the attempt to raise it to its former position . But the old spirit ...
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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.