The British Controversialist and Literary MagazineHoulston and Stonemen, 1864 |
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... side of the Atlantic . Not only have the brains of that portion of the community termed thoughtful people been set in motion , but the whole country has been stirred up from its very depths ; and about a year ago nothing was in such ...
... side of the Atlantic . Not only have the brains of that portion of the community termed thoughtful people been set in motion , but the whole country has been stirred up from its very depths ; and about a year ago nothing was in such ...
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... side by side in the march of progress and civilization . And we on this side of the Atlantic have greater facilities for the consideration of the subject . Just as a man standing on the brow of a hill takes in the whole sweep of country ...
... side by side in the march of progress and civilization . And we on this side of the Atlantic have greater facilities for the consideration of the subject . Just as a man standing on the brow of a hill takes in the whole sweep of country ...
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... side with the North ? We know not . We thought at least the rugged form of Brougham would ever be seen in the van of freedom ; we expected to hear his voice swell with indignation to rebuke the South . But it is not so . The once noble ...
... side with the North ? We know not . We thought at least the rugged form of Brougham would ever be seen in the van of freedom ; we expected to hear his voice swell with indignation to rebuke the South . But it is not so . The once noble ...
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... side of the question . We , writing while the combat is raging , are perhaps hardly fitted for a full and impartial ... sides in support of their past and present conduct . As we are not called upon to prove a negative , it will be ...
... side of the question . We , writing while the combat is raging , are perhaps hardly fitted for a full and impartial ... sides in support of their past and present conduct . As we are not called upon to prove a negative , it will be ...
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... side of the Unionists , and has been sup- ported by , among others , Messrs . Judge , Johnson , and Godwin . The opposition has been represented by Messrs . W. Barnett , W. C. Reddish , A. Horobin , & c . Greenock Philosophical Society ...
... side of the Unionists , and has been sup- ported by , among others , Messrs . Judge , Johnson , and Godwin . The opposition has been represented by Messrs . W. Barnett , W. C. Reddish , A. Horobin , & c . Greenock Philosophical Society ...
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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.