The North British Review, Volume 14W. P. Kennedy, 1851 |
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... minds of individual readers . At one time , the reader being in a blunt , untender , and self - conceited frame of mind ... mind being in a better and more docile condition , there would follow , from the same passage , all the nervous ...
... minds of individual readers . At one time , the reader being in a blunt , untender , and self - conceited frame of mind ... mind being in a better and more docile condition , there would follow , from the same passage , all the nervous ...
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... mind and intelligence , even as they have in bodily frame . The horse , poor dumb four - footed fellow , he too has his private feelings , his affections , gratitudes ; and deserves good usage ; no human master , without crime , shall ...
... mind and intelligence , even as they have in bodily frame . The horse , poor dumb four - footed fellow , he too has his private feelings , his affections , gratitudes ; and deserves good usage ; no human master , without crime , shall ...
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... mind that appear to militate against his conclusions — one runs no small risk of committing that unhappy kind of ... minds of human beings , one can see that there may be present in the least of existing individuals in a community , some ...
... mind that appear to militate against his conclusions — one runs no small risk of committing that unhappy kind of ... minds of human beings , one can see that there may be present in the least of existing individuals in a community , some ...
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... mind ; and to pronounce them , in the language , if not of courtesy and custom , yet of fact and reality , bondsmen and slaves . Even the plain speaking of Fletcher of Saltoun , whose views on the subject of pauperism approach nearer ...
... mind ; and to pronounce them , in the language , if not of courtesy and custom , yet of fact and reality , bondsmen and slaves . Even the plain speaking of Fletcher of Saltoun , whose views on the subject of pauperism approach nearer ...
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... may be , in the historic evolution . We do not , therefore , feel any extreme degree of sympathy with this argument in terrorem . More powerful to our mind , from the economic point of view , are those arguments against Mr.
... may be , in the historic evolution . We do not , therefore , feel any extreme degree of sympathy with this argument in terrorem . More powerful to our mind , from the economic point of view , are those arguments against Mr.
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Page 323 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Page 505 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Page 507 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice, 'Believe no more,' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd,
Page 451 - The name of the first is Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Page 356 - No more fatigue, no more distress ; Nor sin nor hell shall reach the place ; No groans to mingle with the songs Which warble from immortal tongues.
Page 483 - Come then, pure hands, and bear the head That sleeps or wears the mask of sleep, And come, whatever loves to weep, And hear the ritual of the dead. Ah yet, ev'n yet, if this might be, I, falling on his faithful heart, Would breathing thro...
Page 482 - O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 422 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 510 - Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace : Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet ; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.
Page 357 - But sacred, high, eternal noon ! 5 0 long-expected day, begin ! Dawn on these realms of woe and sin ; Fain would we leave this weary road, And sleep in death, to rest with God.