Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 22Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1851 |
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... tion for ballads- doubtless of Phoenician or Jewish origin - continued through the Roman period , and was strengthened by the Teutonic invaders , whose laws and annals in verse were noticed by Tacitus . Spain , again , early in the ...
... tion for ballads- doubtless of Phoenician or Jewish origin - continued through the Roman period , and was strengthened by the Teutonic invaders , whose laws and annals in verse were noticed by Tacitus . Spain , again , early in the ...
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... tion and murder of the Count of Barcelona's daughter . The cowled and bearded Lotha- rio , doomed for his ill deed to graze on all fours like a beast , is ultimately pardoned by the Virgin . This gross legend , fitter for monks than ...
... tion and murder of the Count of Barcelona's daughter . The cowled and bearded Lotha- rio , doomed for his ill deed to graze on all fours like a beast , is ultimately pardoned by the Virgin . This gross legend , fitter for monks than ...
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... tion , and the natives stole the pewter with which he had provided himself to harden the balls used against the larger game . He was now , therefore , compelled to cast his snuffer - tray , spoons , candlesticks , teapots , and drinking ...
... tion , and the natives stole the pewter with which he had provided himself to harden the balls used against the larger game . He was now , therefore , compelled to cast his snuffer - tray , spoons , candlesticks , teapots , and drinking ...
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... tion should , if possible , include repre- sentatives of all classes of society , as it did in Hungary . We have omitted to mention that the chamber of Magnates corresponded precisely with our Upper House , and was formed of exactly ...
... tion should , if possible , include repre- sentatives of all classes of society , as it did in Hungary . We have omitted to mention that the chamber of Magnates corresponded precisely with our Upper House , and was formed of exactly ...
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... tion , wherein , physically , there was nothing strange to experience ; but she carried over also a spiritual venture of vaster capabilities under less visible promise - universal tolera- tion latent in the most inhuman of school- born ...
... tion , wherein , physically , there was nothing strange to experience ; but she carried over also a spiritual venture of vaster capabilities under less visible promise - universal tolera- tion latent in the most inhuman of school- born ...
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Page 55 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 232 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 197 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Page 239 - My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Page 193 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long...
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Page 71 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them;...
Page 69 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 66 - Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of God who yet saw not all things.
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