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Pagina 13
... present unpleasantness of air and countenance pervading the whole of such heretical communities , as have even for a few generations existed out of the communion of the Catholic church . Nay , so obviously distinct and peculiar is this ...
... present unpleasantness of air and countenance pervading the whole of such heretical communities , as have even for a few generations existed out of the communion of the Catholic church . Nay , so obviously distinct and peculiar is this ...
Pagina 21
... present age ; and all this clothed in numbers sweet and flowing . We find it difficult to quote , as the vari- ous pieces are so interwoven that there is something of style to be known before one can fully go along with any given ...
... present age ; and all this clothed in numbers sweet and flowing . We find it difficult to quote , as the vari- ous pieces are so interwoven that there is something of style to be known before one can fully go along with any given ...
Pagina 40
... present generation , though we have now and then sighed for it while struggling through the dense verbiage of law pleadings and parliamentary debates . A modern history of language would be imperfect without men- tion of the numerical ...
... present generation , though we have now and then sighed for it while struggling through the dense verbiage of law pleadings and parliamentary debates . A modern history of language would be imperfect without men- tion of the numerical ...
Pagina 42
... present possess , and traditions ascribing the invention of each of these better processes to some celestial being . The same fact meets us in the early history of most civilized nations : the ancient Greeks , like the modern islanders ...
... present possess , and traditions ascribing the invention of each of these better processes to some celestial being . The same fact meets us in the early history of most civilized nations : the ancient Greeks , like the modern islanders ...
Pagina 46
... present in an eminent degree , will always be attended with its own pe- culiar difficulties . Both in the material and the mental world great changes have taken place ; a rapid progress has been effected , which has undoubtedly elevated ...
... present in an eminent degree , will always be attended with its own pe- culiar difficulties . Both in the material and the mental world great changes have taken place ; a rapid progress has been effected , which has undoubtedly elevated ...
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Pagina 495 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, . No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Pagina 162 - But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Pagina 478 - Every step in the proceedings carried the mind either backward through many troubled centuries to the days when the foundations of our constitution were laid, or far away over boundless seas and deserts to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters from right to left.
Pagina 479 - There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Pagina 399 - A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
Pagina 330 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Pagina 480 - ... urbanity. But in spite of the absence of these two distinguished members of the Lower House, the box in which the managers stood contained an array of speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides.
Pagina 478 - ... of gibraltar against the fleets and armies of france and spain the long procession was closed by the duke of norfolk earl marshal of the realm by the great dignitaries and by the brothers and sons of the king last of all came the prince of wales conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing...
Pagina 328 - Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow...
Pagina 480 - ... comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of the age, his form developed by every manly exercise, his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham. Nor, though surrounded by such men, did the youngest manager pass unnoticed.