The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 22Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1839 |
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... hands of sacrilegious pos- terity . For , if we mistake not , it is only from their having been more or less affected by the revolutionary violence of popular tumults , that they have at last arrived at a true perception of what we may ...
... hands of sacrilegious pos- terity . For , if we mistake not , it is only from their having been more or less affected by the revolutionary violence of popular tumults , that they have at last arrived at a true perception of what we may ...
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... hand , the civil wars that preceded the period of Louis XIV . , while they hindered much progress in the fine arts , -for the ambition of the nobles was turned to far different matters , -kept things to a cer- tain extent from taking ...
... hand , the civil wars that preceded the period of Louis XIV . , while they hindered much progress in the fine arts , -for the ambition of the nobles was turned to far different matters , -kept things to a cer- tain extent from taking ...
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... hand the maintenance of the faith of Rome and the existence of the religious orders in France , were two powerfully conservative causes that kept together the traditional taste and the monuments of the middle ages so firm and ...
... hand the maintenance of the faith of Rome and the existence of the religious orders in France , were two powerfully conservative causes that kept together the traditional taste and the monuments of the middle ages so firm and ...
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... hand of classic innovators , either in screens and choir work , or in that most christian and fraternal invention of pews in places of worship . What few castles survived the Cromwellian wars were nearly all mutilated and dismantled ...
... hand of classic innovators , either in screens and choir work , or in that most christian and fraternal invention of pews in places of worship . What few castles survived the Cromwellian wars were nearly all mutilated and dismantled ...
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... hand - the professional architects - had a much more difficult task to perform ; such , that is to say , as wished to see the pointed styles receive the same share of public favour in France as they had long enjoyed in England . There ...
... hand - the professional architects - had a much more difficult task to perform ; such , that is to say , as wished to see the pointed styles receive the same share of public favour in France as they had long enjoyed in England . There ...
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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.