Choice Literature, Volume 2J. B. Alden, 1880 |
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Pagina 3
... speak- ing people . We propose here to consider , in such detail as our space will allow , the prejudices , political and religious , which have obscured Franklin's fame in England , and upon which Mr. Bigelow's volumes throw a flood of ...
... speak- ing people . We propose here to consider , in such detail as our space will allow , the prejudices , political and religious , which have obscured Franklin's fame in England , and upon which Mr. Bigelow's volumes throw a flood of ...
Pagina 23
... speak of a long and happy life for heroes expiring in atrocious torments ? Either their God was unjust , or the saints thus tortured were great criminals . We see , indeed , mediæval martyrs sustaining this last thesis with a kind of ...
... speak of a long and happy life for heroes expiring in atrocious torments ? Either their God was unjust , or the saints thus tortured were great criminals . We see , indeed , mediæval martyrs sustaining this last thesis with a kind of ...
Pagina 29
... speak tr quite sure they do - then the first dram he drinks must work upon him ; and the day will come- it almost alway when he will be forced to admit that he is being harmed become a sot , though his vital organs may be fearfully as I ...
... speak tr quite sure they do - then the first dram he drinks must work upon him ; and the day will come- it almost alway when he will be forced to admit that he is being harmed become a sot , though his vital organs may be fearfully as I ...
Pagina 34
... speak , by the continual inrush of fresh matter , and that thus an overflow should have taken place into the vast caverns beneath the dome of Etna which had been partially cleared when the Sicilian mountain was in eruption in 1865 ...
... speak , by the continual inrush of fresh matter , and that thus an overflow should have taken place into the vast caverns beneath the dome of Etna which had been partially cleared when the Sicilian mountain was in eruption in 1865 ...
Pagina 56
... speak only of such matters as astrology and al- chemy , but of those also with which most persons are acquainted . Think of the nonsense spoken every day about signs of coming weather , in connection , for example , with the phases of ...
... speak only of such matters as astrology and al- chemy , but of those also with which most persons are acquainted . Think of the nonsense spoken every day about signs of coming weather , in connection , for example , with the phases of ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Ahura Mazda ancient antique appears artist Austria Baptism beautiful called century character Christian Church classical Comédie Française death divine doubt earth Egil Emperor England English eyes fact father Faugère feel France French genius German Giottesque give Government Greek Guelf hand heart heavens human idea interest J. R. SEELEY Jesuits Joseph de Maistre Jules Ferry king Lady land less living look Lord Marsham mastersong matter means ment meteoric mind modern Molière nation nature never Norway observed Odin party Pascal passage passed perhaps philosophy political Port-Royal present Prince pyramid question religion Roman Russia seems Shah Jehan side society soul spirit story theatre things Thorolf thought tion Tories Torlonia true truth Varuna Whigs whole words writing Zeus
Populaire passages
Pagina 790 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Pagina 600 - Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Pagina 794 - I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill -sounding throat Awake the god of day...
Pagina 514 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Pagina 3 - I have long been of opinion, that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British empire lie in America; and though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that human wisdom ever yet erected.
Pagina 32 - The new Beer Bill has begun its operations. Everybody is drunk. Those who are not singing are sprawling. The sovereign people are in a beastly state.
Pagina 600 - There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute. Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.
Pagina 244 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Pagina 651 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Pagina 600 - After the death of King Wan, was not the cause of truth lodged here in me? "If Heaven had wished to let this cause of truth perish, then I, a future mortal! should not have got such a relation to that cause. While Heaven does not let the cause of truth perish, what can the people of K'wang do to me?