The Quarterly Review, Band 41William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1829 |
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... tion to every part of the body politic . But years rolled on ; and the original impulse given at the Reformation , and augmented at the Rebellion , to undervalue all outward forms , has silently con- tinued to prevail , till , with the ...
... tion to every part of the body politic . But years rolled on ; and the original impulse given at the Reformation , and augmented at the Rebellion , to undervalue all outward forms , has silently con- tinued to prevail , till , with the ...
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... 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 innocent ends ? Let it be asked whether , on the supposition that our law ...
... 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 innocent ends ? Let it be asked whether , on the supposition that our law ...
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... tion sowed the wind , and it is according to the natural order of things that we should reap the whirlwind . Our fathers have eaten the sour grapes , and our teeth are set on edge . We trust that the exertions which have been made of ...
... tion sowed the wind , and it is according to the natural order of things that we should reap the whirlwind . Our fathers have eaten the sour grapes , and our teeth are set on edge . We trust that the exertions which have been made of ...
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... tion , become the proselytes , or the propagandists of speculative im- piety . Even while the Jews were living under a visible dispensation , and before the glory had departed from the temple , fools were to be found among them , who ...
... tion , become the proselytes , or the propagandists of speculative im- piety . Even while the Jews were living under a visible dispensation , and before the glory had departed from the temple , fools were to be found among them , who ...
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... tion has been defective ; defective precisely in that particular which was calculated to govern the motions of so formidable an engine , and save it from destroying in its fury itself and all around it . And though we would speak with ...
... tion has been defective ; defective precisely in that particular which was calculated to govern the motions of so formidable an engine , and save it from destroying in its fury itself and all around it . And though we would speak with ...
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Seite 449 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days 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 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 26 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Seite 242 - 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 138 - Proximi Gallis et similes sunt, seu durante originis vi, seu procurrentibus in diversa terris positio coeli corporibus habitum dedit.
Seite 242 - For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest, and therefore dearest wool, there noblemen and gentlemen : yea, and certain Abbots, holy men...
Seite 295 - 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 6 - God (to whom all hearts are open and from whom no secrets are hidden...
Seite 299 - It is a dark and fearful thing ; It steals along with withering tread, Or sweeps on wild destruction's wing. That thought comes o'er me in the hour Of grief, of sickness, or of sadness; 'Tis not the dread of death ; 'tis more, — It is the dread of madness.
Seite 90 - Keeper of the yellow gate, bring us that picture, that we may view it. [Sees the picture.] "Ah, how has he dimmed the purity of the gem, bright as the waves in autumn ! " [To the attendant.'] Transmit our pleasure to the officer of the guard to behead Maouyenshow, and report to us his execution.