Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 94W. Blackwood & Sons, 1863 |
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... less by the glare of genius than by the just proportions of moral beauty , which the genius of others hallowing and revering them ( as genius ever hallows and reveres all images of moral beauty ) , pre- serves distinct and clear by the ...
... less by the glare of genius than by the just proportions of moral beauty , which the genius of others hallowing and revering them ( as genius ever hallows and reveres all images of moral beauty ) , pre- serves distinct and clear by the ...
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... less patterns . No matter how con- summate his intelligence in other domains of mind , yet he may rank with the most stolid and purblind of self - deceivers when he has to pass judgment on his own rhymes . Frederick the Great is ...
... less patterns . No matter how con- summate his intelligence in other domains of mind , yet he may rank with the most stolid and purblind of self - deceivers when he has to pass judgment on his own rhymes . Frederick the Great is ...
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... less affected by the cares and troubles of the immediate hour in his posi- tive existence , and less mortified by any shortlived envy or neglect to which his intellectual or ideal existence is subjected . As the eye finds a soothing ...
... less affected by the cares and troubles of the immediate hour in his posi- tive existence , and less mortified by any shortlived envy or neglect to which his intellectual or ideal existence is subjected . As the eye finds a soothing ...
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... less one has been upon the spot , munition , nor food ; rarer still to the enormous disadvantages under find a man who will not sacrifice half which the insurgents labour in be- his band for the glory of taking a ing deprived of any ...
... less one has been upon the spot , munition , nor food ; rarer still to the enormous disadvantages under find a man who will not sacrifice half which the insurgents labour in be- his band for the glory of taking a ing deprived of any ...
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... less , him . Perhaps there have been within the duration of five years events in the history of his country of additional detention . We have only too likely to indurate such an old prejudice in this country , a creed into its people ...
... less , him . Perhaps there have been within the duration of five years events in the history of his country of additional detention . We have only too likely to indurate such an old prejudice in this country , a creed into its people ...
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Page 336 - Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
Page 121 - The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments ' and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches ; and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.
Page 59 - But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, Arise, and take the young child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.
Page 374 - ... to the rear. His face, which is always placid and cheerful, did not show signs of the slightest disappointment, care, or annoyance, and he was addressing to every soldier he met a few words of encouragement, such as, 'All this will come right in the end ; we'll talk it over afterwards ; but, in the meantime, all good men must rally. We want all good and true men just now,
Page 60 - Thus saith the Lord , Hast thou killed , and also taken possession ? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
Page 373 - The devil you wouldn't! I would like to have missed it very much; we've attacked and been repulsed; look there!' For the first time I then had a view of the open space between the two positions and saw it covered with Confederates, slowly and sulkily returning towards us in small broken parties, under a heavy fire of artillery.
Page 602 - ... it is very possible that I may have said things which a profound observer of national character would hesitate to sanction, though never any, I verily believe, that had not more or less of truth. If they be true, there is no reason in the world why they should not be said. Not an Englishman of them all ever spared America for courtesy's sake or kindness...
Page 340 - So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Page 373 - After passing General Lee and his Staff, I rode on through the woods in the direction in which I had left Longstreet. I soon began to meet many wounded men returning from the front; many of them asked in piteous tones the way to a doctor or an ambulance. The further I got, the greater became the number of the wounded. At last I came to a perfect stream of them...