The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Հատոր 139 |
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Our means of judging are too scanty to warrant a positive conclusion ; but we are
not aware of a single , ancient authority from which it appears that even the
Christian Scriptures themselves , not to speak of the Christian apologists or
polemic ...
Our means of judging are too scanty to warrant a positive conclusion ; but we are
not aware of a single , ancient authority from which it appears that even the
Christian Scriptures themselves , not to speak of the Christian apologists or
polemic ...
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Or Critical Journal. Latin and even Greek historians , and in the monastic
collections generally the proportion of secular books , if scanty according to our
notions , was yet by no means contemptible . In the catalogue of the monastery of
Corbey ...
Or Critical Journal. Latin and even Greek historians , and in the monastic
collections generally the proportion of secular books , if scanty according to our
notions , was yet by no means contemptible . In the catalogue of the monastery of
Corbey ...
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The heating , which is by means of hot - water pipes , is said to be thoroughly
satisfactory ; but complaints have been made as to the imperfect provision for
ventilation . The desks , although not so lavish in space or so elaborately fitted as
those ...
The heating , which is by means of hot - water pipes , is said to be thoroughly
satisfactory ; but complaints have been made as to the imperfect provision for
ventilation . The desks , although not so lavish in space or so elaborately fitted as
those ...
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It might indeed appear , on a cursory view , that the first condition would involve
the second : but this is by no means necessarily the case . A remarkable writer
may have given us all of him that is worth preserving in his published works : he ...
It might indeed appear , on a cursory view , that the first condition would involve
the second : but this is by no means necessarily the case . A remarkable writer
may have given us all of him that is worth preserving in his published works : he ...
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... was impossible when we were alone together , she fled into the region where
she was most at home and at ease , which was that of psychology and abstract
thought : and this was the region where I was by no means at ease and at home .
... was impossible when we were alone together , she fled into the region where
she was most at home and at ease , which was that of psychology and abstract
thought : and this was the region where I was by no means at ease and at home .
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Էջ 570 - Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful?
Էջ 111 - Suppose that all your objects in life were realized ; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
Էջ 113 - What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty.
Էջ 112 - I, for the first time, gave its proper place, among the prime necessities of human well-being, to the internal culture of the individual. I ceased to attach almost exclusive importance to the ordering of outward circumstances, and the training of the human being for speculation and for action.
Էջ 113 - ... shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith ; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things; Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. Here you stand, Adore and worship, when you know it not ; Pious beyond the intention of your thought, Devout above the meaning of your will.
Էջ 111 - I carried it with me into all companies, into all occupations. Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes oblivion of it.
Էջ 570 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend* From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbour there...
Էջ 111 - It was in the autumn of 1826. I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to ; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement ; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent ; the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten bv their first "conviction of sin.
Էջ 112 - The maintenance of a due balance among the faculties, now seemed to me of primary importance. The cultivation of the feelings became one of the cardinal points in my ethical and philosophical creed.