The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 22John George Cochrane 1839 |
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... living writers in producing this reaction ; namely , Chateaubriand and Victor Hugo . The former , by the general tone and subject of his writings , and especially by his admirable Génie du Chris- tianisme , softened and civilized the ...
... living writers in producing this reaction ; namely , Chateaubriand and Victor Hugo . The former , by the general tone and subject of his writings , and especially by his admirable Génie du Chris- tianisme , softened and civilized the ...
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... living landscape . In lands so little trodden by southern European travellers the great features of the human character seem , like the forms of nature herself , to retain what is usually termed their pristine simplicity ; that is to ...
... living landscape . In lands so little trodden by southern European travellers the great features of the human character seem , like the forms of nature herself , to retain what is usually termed their pristine simplicity ; that is to ...
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... living man . But negative proofs to a mind like that of M. Cuvier were insuf- ficient , and persuaded that there ought to be something positive on the subject , he rigorously examined the pretended documents which send man back so many ...
... living man . But negative proofs to a mind like that of M. Cuvier were insuf- ficient , and persuaded that there ought to be something positive on the subject , he rigorously examined the pretended documents which send man back so many ...
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... living beings shall be directed by the Almighty on the present conditions . With regard to theories , M. Cuvier invariably opposed the exclusive adoption of any one of them . He himself had in the beginning of his labours composed many ...
... living beings shall be directed by the Almighty on the present conditions . With regard to theories , M. Cuvier invariably opposed the exclusive adoption of any one of them . He himself had in the beginning of his labours composed many ...
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... living in Olymp . 107 . ( Amalth . 3 , 286. ) The city in which he was born is uncertain . Cedrenus ( Annal . 265 , ) notices him as one of Cnidus ; but this is evi- dently a mistake , arising perhaps from the previous mention of the ...
... living in Olymp . 107 . ( Amalth . 3 , 286. ) The city in which he was born is uncertain . Cedrenus ( Annal . 265 , ) notices him as one of Cnidus ; but this is evi- dently a mistake , arising perhaps from the previous mention of the ...
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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 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 131 - And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
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 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 373 - Is it not solely to be traced in great actions directed to great ends ? In them, • and them alone, we are to search for true estimable magnanimity.
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 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 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...