Calcutta Review, Volume 31University of Calcutta., 1858 |
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... whole continent of Europe ; her genius for scholarship had become extinct ; the spirit of Buchanan and Major and Leslie had passed away ; poverty had , instead of sending her scholars to other lands to gain at once support and renown ...
... whole continent of Europe ; her genius for scholarship had become extinct ; the spirit of Buchanan and Major and Leslie had passed away ; poverty had , instead of sending her scholars to other lands to gain at once support and renown ...
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... whole day , till the lad , softened or wearied out by his pertinacity , actually made him a present of the volume , and he returned home by sunset , exhausted by hunger and fatigue , but in triumphant possession of a treasure , for ...
... whole day , till the lad , softened or wearied out by his pertinacity , actually made him a present of the volume , and he returned home by sunset , exhausted by hunger and fatigue , but in triumphant possession of a treasure , for ...
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... whole of them we see a decided tendency to the linguistic . He loved the study of languages , and he loved , like Mezzofanti , the excitement and triumph of mastering SEPT . , 1858 . C new ones . Hence he gradually obtained , during his ...
... whole of them we see a decided tendency to the linguistic . He loved the study of languages , and he loved , like Mezzofanti , the excitement and triumph of mastering SEPT . , 1858 . C new ones . Hence he gradually obtained , during his ...
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... whole he was not , how- ever , an acceptable preacher , nor was his heart fully set to the profession that his parents were so anxious for him to adorn . Leyden loved literary work and literary society , and the other characteristic of ...
... whole he was not , how- ever , an acceptable preacher , nor was his heart fully set to the profession that his parents were so anxious for him to adorn . Leyden loved literary work and literary society , and the other characteristic of ...
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... whole in a letter to Mr. Ellis : - " You will no doubt be surprised at my silence , and indeed I can- not account for it myself ; but I write you now from the lobby of the East - India House , to inform you that G. Ellis has saved my ...
... whole in a letter to Mr. Ellis : - " You will no doubt be surprised at my silence , and indeed I can- not account for it myself ; but I write you now from the lobby of the East - India House , to inform you that G. Ellis has saved my ...
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Page 353 - That he shouts with his sister at play ! 0 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...
Page l - Lord, and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.
Page 353 - But, O, for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Page 367 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 215 - Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Page 187 - Boys will quarrel, and when they quarrel will sometimes fight. Fighting with fists is the natural and English way for English boys to settle their quarrels.
Page 467 - I KNOW that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought In Time's great periods shall return to nought ; That fairest states have fatal nights and days. I know that all the Muses...
Page 15 - ... like that of the whistling of a tempest through the torn rigging of the vessel which scuds before it. The sounds increased as they approached more near ; and Leyden (to the great astonishment of such of the guests as did not know him) burst into the room, chanting the desiderated ballad with the most enthusiastic gesture, and all the energy of what he used to call the saw-tones of his voice.
Page 179 - The ball has just fallen again where the two sides are thickest, and they close rapidly around it in a scrummage ; it must be driven through now by force or skill, till it flies out on one side or the other. Look how differently the boys face it. Here come two of the bulldogs, bursting through the out-siders ; in they go, straight to the heart of the scrummage, bent on driving that ball out on the opposite side. That is what they mean to do. My sons, my sons...
Page 189 - ... birthright, and felt the drawing of the bond which links all living souls together in one brotherhood — at the grave beneath the altar of him, who had opened his eyes to see that glory, and softened his heart till it could feel that bond. And let us not be hard on him, if at that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there, than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through...