Littell's Living Age, Band 24Living Age Company Incorporated, 1850 |
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... success in literary forgery , when there are any prejudices to resist , is among the rarest of occur- rences ; yet that these forgeries - the hazardous work of many minds , making the most outrageous pretensions , and necessarily ...
... success in literary forgery , when there are any prejudices to resist , is among the rarest of occur- rences ; yet that these forgeries - the hazardous work of many minds , making the most outrageous pretensions , and necessarily ...
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... success ; and as little does he won- der at all the literary and intellectual achievements of its early chroniclers - if their elevation of sen- timent was from a divine source , and if the art- lessness , harmony , and reality of their ...
... success ; and as little does he won- der at all the literary and intellectual achievements of its early chroniclers - if their elevation of sen- timent was from a divine source , and if the art- lessness , harmony , and reality of their ...
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... success . We see that if any mythology could , in such an age , have germinated at all , it must have been one very different from Christianity ; whether we consider the sort of Messiah the Jews ex- pected , or the hatred of all Jewish ...
... success . We see that if any mythology could , in such an age , have germinated at all , it must have been one very different from Christianity ; whether we consider the sort of Messiah the Jews ex- pected , or the hatred of all Jewish ...
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... success ? Have there not been a thousand such , and has any one of them had the slightest chance against systems in possession - against the strongly - rooted prejudices of ignorance , and the Argus - eyed investigations of scepticism ...
... success ? Have there not been a thousand such , and has any one of them had the slightest chance against systems in possession - against the strongly - rooted prejudices of ignorance , and the Argus - eyed investigations of scepticism ...
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... success we may see from the rapid succession and impen- into caverns of tremendous depth and darkness , with etrable obscurities of its various systems . Alas ! when will men learn that one of the highest achievements of nothing better ...
... success we may see from the rapid succession and impen- into caverns of tremendous depth and darkness , with etrable obscurities of its various systems . Alas ! when will men learn that one of the highest achievements of nothing better ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 254 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Seite 14 - If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin.
Seite 89 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Seite 305 - Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHER. To save that client by all expedient means— to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself — is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties...
Seite 141 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Seite 258 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
Seite 146 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her, 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Seite 27 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Seite 339 - I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him.
Seite 138 - Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.