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Pagina 11
... remarkable of the men who in that day kept up the spirit of the drooping Covenanters . Along with Cameron and Cargill , he was the foremost of the ministers against whom the whole fury of Government was di- rected ; but , unlike them ...
... remarkable of the men who in that day kept up the spirit of the drooping Covenanters . Along with Cameron and Cargill , he was the foremost of the ministers against whom the whole fury of Government was di- rected ; but , unlike them ...
Pagina 40
... remarkable class of men , the specimens of which have at no time been numerous . To him , more properly than to most of his contemporaries , may be applied the name of Re- former ; for it would be difficult to mention another public man ...
... remarkable class of men , the specimens of which have at no time been numerous . To him , more properly than to most of his contemporaries , may be applied the name of Re- former ; for it would be difficult to mention another public man ...
Pagina 62
... remarkable a publication as had ever been given to the world . So evidently Parliament thought ; for in the famous Poor- Law Amendment Act , passed in August 1834 , the principal recommendations of the Report were adopted and formulized ...
... remarkable a publication as had ever been given to the world . So evidently Parliament thought ; for in the famous Poor- Law Amendment Act , passed in August 1834 , the principal recommendations of the Report were adopted and formulized ...
Pagina 84
... remarkable type . To say that he has committed errors is but to say that he has attempted much ; that he should be the object of jealousy and opposition is a matter of course , considering the nature of his exertions ; but it would be ...
... remarkable type . To say that he has committed errors is but to say that he has attempted much ; that he should be the object of jealousy and opposition is a matter of course , considering the nature of his exertions ; but it would be ...
Pagina 102
and my thoughts are distracted . " He told another that she was a remarkable woman , singularis exempli femina ; and rarely did the stern Predestinarian of Geneva despatch a letter to a friend without alluding to his partner . When ...
and my thoughts are distracted . " He told another that she was a remarkable woman , singularis exempli femina ; and rarely did the stern Predestinarian of Geneva despatch a letter to a friend without alluding to his partner . When ...
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Pagina 175 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Pagina 175 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Pagina 479 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Pagina 501 - twas pastime to be bound Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground; Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be) Who have felt the weight of too much liberty, Should find brief solace there, as I have found.
Pagina 176 - I had), and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian.
Pagina 119 - Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven, If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for ye are A beauty, and a mystery, and create G In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Pagina 493 - All shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice in games Confederate, imitative of the chase" And woodland pleasures, - the resounding horn, The pack loud chiming, and the hunted hare.
Pagina 500 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...
Pagina 550 - That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet. Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet; And we shall sit at endless feast, Enjoying each the other's good.
Pagina 175 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of.