The British Quarterly Review, Volume 15Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1852 - Christianity |
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... thought than to say , that men of Mr. Macaulay's powers should never 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 ...
... thought than to say , that men of Mr. Macaulay's powers should never 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 ...
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... thought . But with these indications in common , Sir James's narrative , especially in the volumes now before us , exhibits more discrimination , more fulness , more simplicity , thinking much more carefully wrought out , and feeling ...
... thought . But with these indications in common , Sir James's narrative , especially in the volumes now before us , exhibits more discrimination , more fulness , more simplicity , thinking much more carefully wrought out , and feeling ...
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... thought and poverty of invention . For this degeneracy we however are , I fear , far more deeply responsible than our neighbours . Darkened as the literary language of France has so often been by the fumes of undigested meta- physics ...
... thought and poverty of invention . For this degeneracy we however are , I fear , far more deeply responsible than our neighbours . Darkened as the literary language of France has so often been by the fumes of undigested meta- physics ...
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... thought in which they might acquire renown , either for him , for France , or for themselves . The theatres , the academies , the pulpits , and the monasteries of his kingdom rivalled each other in their zealous obedience to that royal ...
... thought in which they might acquire renown , either for him , for France , or for themselves . The theatres , the academies , the pulpits , and the monasteries of his kingdom rivalled each other in their zealous obedience to that royal ...
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... thought and care , to transform every neighbour church , though ' called by the same name , into a rival , that such a system cannot be , & c . - The spirit engendered and nourished by Independency ' is essentially opposed to the ...
... thought and care , to transform every neighbour church , though ' called by the same name , into a rival , that such a system cannot be , & c . - The spirit engendered and nourished by Independency ' is essentially opposed to the ...
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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.