The Quarterly Review, Volum 141John Murray, 1876 |
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Pàgina 14
... interest and grandeur never surpassed . Within its limits there is scarcely any event of moment , scarcely any personage that ' frets his hour ' on the stage of history , that is not set in a clearer light , or brought more vividly home ...
... interest and grandeur never surpassed . Within its limits there is scarcely any event of moment , scarcely any personage that ' frets his hour ' on the stage of history , that is not set in a clearer light , or brought more vividly home ...
Pàgina 16
... interest than might be expected from episcopal correspondence in general . They afford clear information as to the reli- gious faith of the gentlemen and noblemen in different parts of England . Thus , in a report of the Bishop of ...
... interest than might be expected from episcopal correspondence in general . They afford clear information as to the reli- gious faith of the gentlemen and noblemen in different parts of England . Thus , in a report of the Bishop of ...
Pàgina 17
... interest- ing to readers of Shakespeare : ' Babage is come , and says there is no new play that the Queen ( Ann ) hath not seen ; but they have revived an old one , called " Love's Labour's Lost , " which for wit and mirth , he says ...
... interest- ing to readers of Shakespeare : ' Babage is come , and says there is no new play that the Queen ( Ann ) hath not seen ; but they have revived an old one , called " Love's Labour's Lost , " which for wit and mirth , he says ...
Pàgina 31
... interest of the nation , advanced his own ; if he employed the opportunity thus offered him in repressing the designs of Cobham and Raleigh , it must be remembered that the first advances did not proceed from himself , but from James ...
... interest of the nation , advanced his own ; if he employed the opportunity thus offered him in repressing the designs of Cobham and Raleigh , it must be remembered that the first advances did not proceed from himself , but from James ...
Pàgina 47
... interests , by Harley and St. John , at the Peace of Utrecht - might have been averted at the outset by honest ... interest too easily seduced at any time from that of his lawful spouse . The temptress France came with gold in her ...
... interests , by Harley and St. John , at the Peace of Utrecht - might have been averted at the outset by honest ... interest too easily seduced at any time from that of his lawful spouse . The temptress France came with gold in her ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 505 - Pale as his shirt ; his knees knocking each other ; And with a look so piteous in purport, As if he had been loosed out of hell, To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Pàgina 529 - For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
Pàgina 518 - And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
Pàgina 541 - And when there is a Communion, the Priest shall then place upon the Table so much Bread and Wine, as he shall think sufficient.
Pàgina 7 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world...
Pàgina 529 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Pàgina 127 - He spake of love, such love as Spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away — no strife to heal — The past unsighed for, and the future sure; 100.
Pàgina 253 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
Pàgina 129 - For a multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind; and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident which the rapid communication of intelligence...
Pàgina 49 - I knew her from six years old, and had some share in her education, by directing what books she should read, and perpetually instructing her in the principles of honour and virtue ; from which she never swerved in any one action or moment of her life.