The Quarterly Review, Band 41John Murray, 1829 |
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... period before our own was any serious attempt made to separate educa- tion from religion - to let loose upon society the intellectual strength of its members , with nothing whatever to direct that strength to beneficent or even to ...
... period before our own was any serious attempt made to separate educa- tion from religion - to let loose upon society the intellectual strength of its members , with nothing whatever to direct that strength to beneficent or even to ...
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... period ; nay more , a school of divines then sprung up , who have furnished our theological armoury with weapons against deism , of a temper never equalled before or since ; and deism , or a tendency to it , was the sin of the day . We ...
... period ; nay more , a school of divines then sprung up , who have furnished our theological armoury with weapons against deism , of a temper never equalled before or since ; and deism , or a tendency to it , was the sin of the day . We ...
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... periods , seemed to encircle the ancient nations of the East has lost its efficacy ; books treating of them appear to be no longer capable of inspiring that degree of interest they were wont to possess in the infancy of European ...
... periods , seemed to encircle the ancient nations of the East has lost its efficacy ; books treating of them appear to be no longer capable of inspiring that degree of interest they were wont to possess in the infancy of European ...
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... period of this battle , ' says Marco Polo , the Grand Khan has always chosen to employ elephants in his armies , which before that time he had not done . ' The pyramidal temples , the tombs , with their gilding and jingling bells , the ...
... period of this battle , ' says Marco Polo , the Grand Khan has always chosen to employ elephants in his armies , which before that time he had not done . ' The pyramidal temples , the tombs , with their gilding and jingling bells , the ...
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... periods of their respective visits , as it now is , the king acting the tyrant over his ministers , and his sters , and his ministers oppressing the people . We should say , indeed , if we are to admit the accounts of these travellers ...
... periods of their respective visits , as it now is , the king acting the tyrant over his ministers , and his sters , and his ministers oppressing the people . We should say , indeed , if we are to admit the accounts of these travellers ...
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Seite 17 - The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast...
Seite 136 - Iberos veteres traiecisse easque sedes occupasse fidem faciunt. Proximi Gallis et similes sunt, seu durante originis vi, seu procurrentibus in diversa terris positio coeli corporibus habitum dedit.
Seite 240 - God wot! not contenting themselves with the yearly revenues and profits that were wont to grow to their forefathers and predecessors of their lands, nor being content that they live in rest and pleasure — nothing profiting, yea, much annoying the weal publick — leave no ground for tillage; they enclose all into pastures, they throw down houses, they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing but only the church to be made a sheephouse.
Seite 240 - I) your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up, and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Seite 284 - MAWE'S (HL) Journal of a Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, crossing the Andes in the Northern Provinces of Peru, and descending the great River Maranon.
Seite 296 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Seite 447 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Seite 299 - POETRY, written at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries...
Seite 291 - Twere almost sacrilege to sing Those notes amid the glare of day ; Notes borne by angels' purest wing, And wafted by their breath away. When, sleeping in my grass-grown bed, Shouldst thou still linger here above, Wilt thou not kneel beside my head, And, sister, sing the song I love?
Seite 290 - WHEN evening spreads her shades around, And darkness fills the arch of heaven , When not a murmur, not a sound To Fancy's sportive ear is given; When the broad orb of heaven is bright, And looks around with golden eye; When Nature...