The Quarterly Review, Band 41John Murray, 1829 |
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... present times with those in which Sir T. More lived and lost his head . It may be imagined , from the mere announcement of this introduction , that there is something of the dismal character of the scroll of Ezekiel impressed upon these ...
... present times with those in which Sir T. More lived and lost his head . It may be imagined , from the mere announcement of this introduction , that there is something of the dismal character of the scroll of Ezekiel impressed upon these ...
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... present , both at schools and univer- sities , being to deaden the instinct of piety , instead of cherishing and maturing it . Here we have a difficulty which had no existence in days when monasteries were the only seminaries of ...
... present , both at schools and univer- sities , being to deaden the instinct of piety , instead of cherishing and maturing it . Here we have a difficulty which had no existence in days when monasteries were the only seminaries of ...
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... present state of opinion may make much of this seem vision ary ; but there are times when honest men must not be afraid of the sneers of philosophers in a small way , ' and such times are these . In Roman Catholic countries , the ...
... present state of opinion may make much of this seem vision ary ; but there are times when honest men must not be afraid of the sneers of philosophers in a small way , ' and such times are these . In Roman Catholic countries , the ...
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... present times ) at the lathe or the loom . By means of some such system of police and instruction as we have hinted - some system which shall regard men in a higher light than as instruments for spinning cotton , might the comparison ...
... present times ) at the lathe or the loom . By means of some such system of police and instruction as we have hinted - some system which shall regard men in a higher light than as instruments for spinning cotton , might the comparison ...
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... present constitutes the Burman empire , with the addition of Aracan and Bengal . The elephants and their conductors were taken into the Tartaric army , to the number of two hundred ; and from the period of this battle , ' says Marco ...
... present constitutes the Burman empire , with the addition of Aracan and Bengal . The elephants and their conductors were taken into the Tartaric army , to the number of two hundred ; and from the period of this battle , ' says Marco ...
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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...