The Quarterly Review, Հատոր 77William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1846 |
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... look or a hint . He listened with undivided attention to the evidence , and did not prepare a speech in parliament or write letters to his correspondents under pretence of taking notes of the argu- ments addressed to him . Nor did he ...
... look or a hint . He listened with undivided attention to the evidence , and did not prepare a speech in parliament or write letters to his correspondents under pretence of taking notes of the argu- ments addressed to him . Nor did he ...
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... look for direction in our endeavours to obtain fuller information upon many of the most interesting of subjects . It is hence only that we can hope to draw any additional knowledge concerning the earliest races of mankind , or any help ...
... look for direction in our endeavours to obtain fuller information upon many of the most interesting of subjects . It is hence only that we can hope to draw any additional knowledge concerning the earliest races of mankind , or any help ...
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... look to the East for fuller means of tracing the history of the earliest races of mankind ; -from the same quarter we may also hope to recover much of the science and literature of Greece and Rome , which appears to have perished in the ...
... look to the East for fuller means of tracing the history of the earliest races of mankind ; -from the same quarter we may also hope to recover much of the science and literature of Greece and Rome , which appears to have perished in the ...
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... look for the recovery of works lost in the original Greek . This lan- guage , which with slight variations prevailed from the Mediter- ranean to the Euphrates , and from the confines of Arabia and Egypt to Armenia , not only possesses a ...
... look for the recovery of works lost in the original Greek . This lan- guage , which with slight variations prevailed from the Mediter- ranean to the Euphrates , and from the confines of Arabia and Egypt to Armenia , not only possesses a ...
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... look as fresh as if they had scarcely been used at all -even the original dressing of the vellum still remains ; although they have been written more than a thousand years , they seem as if the transcriber had finished his task but ...
... look as fresh as if they had scarcely been used at all -even the original dressing of the vellum still remains ; although they have been written more than a thousand years , they seem as if the transcriber had finished his task but ...
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Էջ 386 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Էջ 411 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Էջ 249 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him ? But ye have despised the poor.
Էջ 254 - Search then the ruling passion : there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest.
Էջ 412 - ... from the nature of the human mind, time is necessary for the full comprehension and perfection of great ideas ; and that the highest and most wonderful truths, though communicated to the world once for all by inspired teachers could not be comprehended all at once by the recipients, but, as...
Էջ 37 - His friendship and conversation lay much among the good fellows and humourists ; and his delights were accordingly, drinking, laughing, singing, kissing, and all the extravagances of the bottle. He had a set of banterers for the most part, near him ; as in old time great men kept fools to make them merry. And these fellows abusing one another and their betters, were a regale to him.
Էջ 19 - I must put your Highness in remembrance of one thing; and that is this: The Pope, as your Grace knoweth, is a prince as you are, and in league with all other Christian princes. It may hereafter so fall out that your Grace and he may vary upon some points of the league; whereupon may grow breach of amity and war between you both. I think it best therefore that that place be amended, and his authority more slenderly touched.
Էջ 1 - ... the lives and characters of a long succession of influential magistrates and ministers, and the manly style of his narrative. We need hardly say that we shall expect with great interest the continuation of this performance.
Էջ 563 - THE possible destiny of the United States of America, — as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen, — stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception.
Էջ 9 - And it came to pass when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished ; that Moses commanded the Levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your GOD, that it may be there for a witness against thee.