The Quarterly Review, Band 41William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1829 |
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... took a loftier direction , the higher honours of altars and images might be reserved for them at last . Here , then , everything tended to make them feel the temporal and spiritual importance of religion . If their minds were not ...
... took a loftier direction , the higher honours of altars and images might be reserved for them at last . Here , then , everything tended to make them feel the temporal and spiritual importance of religion . If their minds were not ...
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... , had been half bared by the waters during one of the winter floods , and afforded a commodious resting - place , whereon I took my seat , at once basking in the sun and bathing , as it were , in Progress and Prospects of Society . 25.
... , had been half bared by the waters during one of the winter floods , and afforded a commodious resting - place , whereon I took my seat , at once basking in the sun and bathing , as it were , in Progress and Prospects of Society . 25.
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... took place under the British cannon at Yandabo , within forty miles of the capital , and when the government of Ava was humiliated to the last degree , the Burman commissioners , feigning to forget that they were negociating with the ...
... took place under the British cannon at Yandabo , within forty miles of the capital , and when the government of Ava was humiliated to the last degree , the Burman commissioners , feigning to forget that they were negociating with the ...
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... took to immediate flight , some leaping over the balustrades which rail in the front of the Hall of Audience , but the greater number escaping by the stair which leads to it ; and in the confusion which attended their endea- vours ...
... took to immediate flight , some leaping over the balustrades which rail in the front of the Hall of Audience , but the greater number escaping by the stair which leads to it ; and in the confusion which attended their endea- vours ...
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... took off our shoes , as we had from the first agreed to do . We passed through the hall , and seated ourselves where our station was pointed out , in front of the throne , a little way to the king's left hand , the presents being ...
... took off our shoes , as we had from the first agreed to do . We passed through the hall , and seated ourselves where our station was pointed out , in front of the throne , a little way to the king's left hand , the presents being ...
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Seite 298 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Seite 17 - The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast...
Seite 26 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Seite 242 - I) your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up, and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Seite 100 - I have heard that a minister of state in the reign of queen Elizabeth had all manner of books and ballads brought to him, of what kind soever, and took great notice how much they took with the people ; upon which he would, and certainly might, very well judge of their present dispositions, and the most proper way of applying them according to his own purposes.
Seite 366 - THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Seite 285 - CONVERSATIONS ON VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY; comprehending" the Elements of Botany, with their application to Agriculture.
Seite 242 - For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest, and therefore dearest wool, there noblemen and gentlemen : yea, and certain Abbots, holy men, no doubt, not contenting themselves with the yearly revenues and profits that were wont to grow to their forefathers and predecessors of their lands...
Seite 299 - It is a dark and fearful thing ; It steals along with withering tread, Or sweeps on wild destruction's wing. That thought comes o'er me in the hour Of grief, of sickness, or of sadness; 'Tis not the dread of death ; 'tis more, — It is the dread of madness.
Seite 180 - Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Smart showed the disturbance of his mind by falling upon his knees and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding...