The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 22Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1839 |
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... influenced , doubt- less , to a very great degree , by the political circumstances of the time but it is a subject of just surprise that the aristocracy of western Europe should have been so late to awaken to a sense of their interest ...
... influenced , doubt- less , to a very great degree , by the political circumstances of the time but it is a subject of just surprise that the aristocracy of western Europe should have been so late to awaken to a sense of their interest ...
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... studies , would probably have revived the taste for ancient French art among his countrymen . Political events , however , were now ( 1788-1792 ) becoming too strong for the softer influence 6 Restoration of the Fine Arts.
... studies , would probably have revived the taste for ancient French art among his countrymen . Political events , however , were now ( 1788-1792 ) becoming too strong for the softer influence 6 Restoration of the Fine Arts.
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... influence of the ec- clesiastical institutions was destroyed and despised ; brutality and ignorance had come newly into power , and , drunk with blood , intoxicated with political elevation , were wreaking venge- ance on all that bore ...
... influence of the ec- clesiastical institutions was destroyed and despised ; brutality and ignorance had come newly into power , and , drunk with blood , intoxicated with political elevation , were wreaking venge- ance on all that bore ...
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... influence of the Revolution on the medi - æval riches of the capital we will advert to the cases of the monasteries of the Celestins , at the eastern end of the city , and the Petits Augustins , opposite the Louvre , on the southern ...
... influence of the Revolution on the medi - æval riches of the capital we will advert to the cases of the monasteries of the Celestins , at the eastern end of the city , and the Petits Augustins , opposite the Louvre , on the southern ...
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... the legislature or the king in his behalf , -much less to pre- serve so rich a collection undispersed . The proprietor has submitted to all this with a The fact is that , partly from the influence of of the Middle Ages in France . 11.
... the legislature or the king in his behalf , -much less to pre- serve so rich a collection undispersed . The proprietor has submitted to all this with a The fact is that , partly from the influence of of the Middle Ages in France . 11.
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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.