The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 22Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1839 |
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... appears , did immense service to public taste in giving the ton ; -Browne , Willis , Stukely , Grose , and all the names that , during the latter half of the last century , shed lustre on the Society of Antiquaries , -a list far too ...
... appears , did immense service to public taste in giving the ton ; -Browne , Willis , Stukely , Grose , and all the names that , during the latter half of the last century , shed lustre on the Society of Antiquaries , -a list far too ...
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... appear . The history of the fine arts in France and England had also in their early periods this difference , which ought to be taken into ac- count . While Henry VIII . was only following the bent of his passions and thinking of ...
... appear . The history of the fine arts in France and England had also in their early periods this difference , which ought to be taken into ac- count . While Henry VIII . was only following the bent of his passions and thinking of ...
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... appear , it was nevertheless , pro tanto , a victory over the remains of revolutionary barbarism . + Vast quantities of the more moveable debris of Jumièges found their way to Eng- land , purchased by amateurs , many of whom are ...
... appear , it was nevertheless , pro tanto , a victory over the remains of revolutionary barbarism . + Vast quantities of the more moveable debris of Jumièges found their way to Eng- land , purchased by amateurs , many of whom are ...
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... appear to some , because they give an intimate view of the social tastes of a great people ; and as such they are not without their value ; -the most precious and sometimes the most interesting accounts that we now read of former epochs ...
... appear to some , because they give an intimate view of the social tastes of a great people ; and as such they are not without their value ; -the most precious and sometimes the most interesting accounts that we now read of former epochs ...
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... appears likely to increase rather than the contrary : witness the light recently thrown upon Egyp- tian antiquities , and in which the decyphering of the hieroglyphic alphabet is opening a new and illimitable field ; the researches into ...
... appears likely to increase rather than the contrary : witness the light recently thrown upon Egyp- tian antiquities , and in which the decyphering of the hieroglyphic alphabet is opening a new and illimitable field ; the researches into ...
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Page 103 - Be strong, fear not : behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence ; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing : for in the wilderness _shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 106 - And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
Page 372 - Alike in the political and the military line could be observed auctioneering ambassadors and trading generals ; — and thus we saw a revolution brought about by affidavits; an army employed in executing an arrest; a town besieged on a note of hand; a prince dethroned for the balance of an account. Thus it was they exhibited a government which united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre, and the little traffic of a merchant's counting-house, wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket...
Page 76 - Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs ; In Sion also not unsung, where stood Her temple on the offensive mountain, built By that uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul.
Page 373 - He either tyrannized or deceived ; and was, by turns, a Dionysius and a Scapin. As well might the writhing obliquity of the serpent be compared to the swift directness of the arrow, as the duplicity of Mr. Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity.
Page 373 - Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In his mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little ; nothing simple, nothing unmixed; all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation ; a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities, with nothing . great but his crimes; and even those contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster.
Page 373 - There was indeed another species of greatness, which displayed itself in boldly conceiving a bad measure, and undauntedly pursuing it to its accomplishment. But had Mr Hastings the merit of exhibiting either of these descriptions of greatness, — even of the latter?
Page 74 - Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.
Page 131 - Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not: for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.
Page 121 - The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore, also, that holy thing that shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.