The British Controversialist and Literary MagazineHoulston and Stonemen, 1864 |
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... Less interesting contests as to property or rights , though they might be carried on with as profound an insight into the principles of jurisprudence , and elicit as masterly a statement of the applicability of the statutes or ...
... Less interesting contests as to property or rights , though they might be carried on with as profound an insight into the principles of jurisprudence , and elicit as masterly a statement of the applicability of the statutes or ...
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... less a sanction than that of royalty , and hence witches are introduced into " Macbeth , " one of the most moral pieces existing . It is this sound moral which counteracts the effects of any otherwise objectionable passages . Even in ...
... less a sanction than that of royalty , and hence witches are introduced into " Macbeth , " one of the most moral pieces existing . It is this sound moral which counteracts the effects of any otherwise objectionable passages . Even in ...
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... less broken by the absence for six or seven years of those 2,000,000 sons who are annually taken from their homes by the recruitment . " Turning from the material to the moral results of Napoleonism , we find the ruin , havoc , and ...
... less broken by the absence for six or seven years of those 2,000,000 sons who are annually taken from their homes by the recruitment . " Turning from the material to the moral results of Napoleonism , we find the ruin , havoc , and ...
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... less than a man's hand , but big with the fate of a mighty nation . It had no majority ; the slaveholders occupied all the avenues of power - the bench , the forum , and the ministerial and ambassadorial offices - in their own hands ...
... less than a man's hand , but big with the fate of a mighty nation . It had no majority ; the slaveholders occupied all the avenues of power - the bench , the forum , and the ministerial and ambassadorial offices - in their own hands ...
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... less severe , and there is less routine . They like that sort of free and easy life better . ' " But , alas ! all human joys must end , and after a couple of years of this " free and easy life , ' the third stage commences , and our ...
... less severe , and there is less routine . They like that sort of free and easy life better . ' " But , alas ! all human joys must end , and after a couple of years of this " free and easy life , ' the third stage commences , and our ...
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Page 440 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works.
Page 56 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 222 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 35 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the -will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Page 362 - A hand that can be clasp'd no more Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.
Page 36 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands : their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away ! On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language — nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Page 180 - We would speak first of the Puritans, the most remarkable body of men, perhaps, which the world has ever produced. The odious and ridiculous parts of their character lie on the surface. He that runs may read them; nor have there been wanting attentive and malicious observers to point them out. For many years after the Restoration, they were the theme of unmeasured invective and derision. They were exposed to the utmost licentiousness of the press and of the stage, at the time when the press and the...
Page 223 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Page 365 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light : The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 217 - Love, now a universal birth, From heart to heart is stealing, From earth to man, from man to earth : It is the hour of feeling.