The Quarterly Review, Volume 186William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1897 |
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... position at Wittenberg in 1517. ' All , ' Dr. Beard observes , ' seemed to open to him a brilliant future in the service of the Church . He held high office in his Order , and might expect still higher . He enjoyed the favour of his ...
... position at Wittenberg in 1517. ' All , ' Dr. Beard observes , ' seemed to open to him a brilliant future in the service of the Church . He held high office in his Order , and might expect still higher . He enjoyed the favour of his ...
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... position -we shall speak of it presently - upon which indulgences rest . But he bewails their prostitution to the greed of gain by sub- commissaries , who , instead of declaring the conditions upon which alone they avail , recommend ...
... position -we shall speak of it presently - upon which indulgences rest . But he bewails their prostitution to the greed of gain by sub- commissaries , who , instead of declaring the conditions upon which alone they avail , recommend ...
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... positions of the scholastics , but have solidly built thereon . It is a marvellous contrast to the sterility and decadence exhibited by Roman Catholicism in countries where the Lutheran Revo- lution never entered , or where it was ...
... positions of the scholastics , but have solidly built thereon . It is a marvellous contrast to the sterility and decadence exhibited by Roman Catholicism in countries where the Lutheran Revo- lution never entered , or where it was ...
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... position of Commissioner of the Colony in London . A voyage of twenty - five days from Charles Town brought them to England . It is curious to read that their first step was to hire a house at Richmond for innoculation against the small ...
... position of Commissioner of the Colony in London . A voyage of twenty - five days from Charles Town brought them to England . It is curious to read that their first step was to hire a house at Richmond for innoculation against the small ...
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... position to testify . Every one knew the experience and the singular combination of gifts which Sir Charles had brought to bear on this work . An eager student of antiquity ; a soldier to whom the mountains and valleys , roads and ...
... position to testify . Every one knew the experience and the singular combination of gifts which Sir Charles had brought to bear on this work . An eager student of antiquity ; a soldier to whom the mountains and valleys , roads and ...
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Page 330 - And only The Master shall praise us, and only The Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!
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