Miscellaneous Essays: By Archibald Alison, Հատոր 2Carey & Hart, 1845 - 390 էջ |
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... present to his mind , what- ever he does , or wherever he is . He illustrates the genius of Christianity by the beauties of classical learning , inhales the spirit of ancient prophecy on the shores of the Jordan , dreams on the banks of ...
... present to his mind , what- ever he does , or wherever he is . He illustrates the genius of Christianity by the beauties of classical learning , inhales the spirit of ancient prophecy on the shores of the Jordan , dreams on the banks of ...
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... present yourself armed with theological reasons , but what you must begin with is an inducement to read your book . What is most needed is a popular work on religion ; those who have hitherto written on it have too often fallen into the ...
... present yourself armed with theological reasons , but what you must begin with is an inducement to read your book . What is most needed is a popular work on religion ; those who have hitherto written on it have too often fallen into the ...
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... present conclusions more sublime than the most fervid imagina- tion has been able to conceive . Every thing announces that the great works of nature are carried on by slow and insensible gradations ; continents , the abode of millions ...
... present conclusions more sublime than the most fervid imagina- tion has been able to conceive . Every thing announces that the great works of nature are carried on by slow and insensible gradations ; continents , the abode of millions ...
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... present misfor- tunes , and in their present situation the germ of future glory . The breaking of the sea , which insensibly increased against the rocks at the foot of the Cape , at length reminded me that the wind had risen , and that ...
... present misfor- tunes , and in their present situation the germ of future glory . The breaking of the sea , which insensibly increased against the rocks at the foot of the Cape , at length reminded me that the wind had risen , and that ...
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... present century . ing , I perceived on the green and ruffled sur- The Jews still come there to die , from all the face of the water a line of foam , and beyond it corners of the earth . A stranger sells to them , a pale and still ocean ...
... present century . ing , I perceived on the green and ruffled sur- The Jews still come there to die , from all the face of the water a line of foam , and beyond it corners of the earth . A stranger sells to them , a pale and still ocean ...
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Էջ 8 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Էջ 160 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Էջ 365 - Their starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.
Էջ 71 - Seven stood upright; the rest had been dislodged from their places, probably by the zeal of some convert to Christianity, and lay, some prostrate near their former site, and others on the side of the hill. One large stone only had found its way to the bottom, and, in stopping the course of a small brook which glided smoothly round the foot of the eminence, gave, by its opposition, a feeble voice of murmur to the placid and elsewhere silent streamlet.
Էջ 363 - ... one race, owing their origin to the same cause, and preserving the same civilization, the same language, the same religion, the same habits, the same manners, and imbued with the same opinions, propagated under the same forms. The rest is uncertain, but this is certain ; and it is a fact new to the world — a fact fraught with such portentous consequences as to baffle the efforts even of the imagination.
Էջ 71 - ... grass forces upon our imagination the recollection ; that it owes its dark luxuriance to the foul and festering remnants of mortality which ferment beneath. The daisy which sprinkles the sod, and the harebell which hangs over it, derive their pure nourishment from the dew of heaven ; and their growth impresses us with no degrading or disgusting recollections. Death has indeed been here, and its traces are before us ; but they are softened and deprived of their horror by our distance from the...
Էջ 71 - Roman soldiery, tiling their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copsewood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun ; in others they receded from each other, forming those long sweeping vistas, in the intricacy of which the eye delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of silvan solitude.
Էջ 365 - All other nations seem to have nearly reached their natural limits, and they have only to maintain their power; but these are still in the act of growth. All the others...
Էջ 72 - Still, however, his dying splendor gave a sombre magnificence to the massive congregation of vapors, forming out of their unsubstantial gloom the show of pyramids and towers, some touched with gold, some with purple, some with a hue of deep and dark red. The distant sea, stretched beneath this varied and gorgeous canopy, lay almost portentously still, reflecting back the dazzling and level beams of the descending luminary, and the splendid coloring of the clouds amidst which he was setting.
Էջ 161 - The world was sad ; the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled...