The Quarterly Review, Volumen50William 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, 1834 |
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... kind repulsive to the general reader . But before he enters upon that treatise , he should prepare his thoughts for the tone of elevation which it requires , by reading Mrs. Somerville's delightful volume on the Connexion of the ...
... kind repulsive to the general reader . But before he enters upon that treatise , he should prepare his thoughts for the tone of elevation which it requires , by reading Mrs. Somerville's delightful volume on the Connexion of the ...
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... kind are enormous to common apprehension . Thus Encke's comet , according to the results of the observations already made , will lose in ten revolutions , or thirty - three years , less than one - thousandth of its velocity ; and if ...
... kind are enormous to common apprehension . Thus Encke's comet , according to the results of the observations already made , will lose in ten revolutions , or thirty - three years , less than one - thousandth of its velocity ; and if ...
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... kind , some combine the fish with the lizard . They are found sometimes imbedded in reeds and grasses of gigantic proportions , in company with shell - fish , as ammonites and nautili , of inordinate bulk as compared with those of the ...
... kind , some combine the fish with the lizard . They are found sometimes imbedded in reeds and grasses of gigantic proportions , in company with shell - fish , as ammonites and nautili , of inordinate bulk as compared with those of the ...
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... kind . In thus retracing the progressive steps of creation we cannot fail to see an Intelligent Power operating according to laws which are still discerned in action ; and at the same time we receive exalted ideas of the dignity ...
... kind . In thus retracing the progressive steps of creation we cannot fail to see an Intelligent Power operating according to laws which are still discerned in action ; and at the same time we receive exalted ideas of the dignity ...
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... kind of shallow talk - of the vices and follies of the Great , because they are observed by all eyes and recorded by all pens ; but we very much doubt whether the number of the wicked and fool- ish in the higher ranks be not infinitely ...
... kind of shallow talk - of the vices and follies of the Great , because they are observed by all eyes and recorded by all pens ; but we very much doubt whether the number of the wicked and fool- ish in the higher ranks be not infinitely ...
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Página 513 - For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Página 538 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Página 538 - And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
Página 427 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Página 556 - OUR Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences ! And by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Página 542 - Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Página 486 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Página 289 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Página 446 - Exspatiata ruunt per apertos flumina campos, Cumque satis arbusta simul pecudesque virosque Tectaque cumque suis rapiunt penetralia sacris.
Página 284 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.