The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 48Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1859 |
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... France despaired of , the jealousy of Francis the First against the Emperor giving stronger grounds to hope for his accession than any proofs which he had given of regard for the Gos- pel . Such was the comprehensive scheme which ...
... France despaired of , the jealousy of Francis the First against the Emperor giving stronger grounds to hope for his accession than any proofs which he had given of regard for the Gos- pel . Such was the comprehensive scheme which ...
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... France , with the intention of making an excursion into Af- rica and the East ; but here again various difficulties interposed ; and finally , the continent of South - America appeared to offer in many respects the most eligible field ...
... France , with the intention of making an excursion into Af- rica and the East ; but here again various difficulties interposed ; and finally , the continent of South - America appeared to offer in many respects the most eligible field ...
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... France or Spain ; while the third continu- ally accompanied the travelers on a long train of mules , and was anxiously kept under their own eyes . Of the two former sets , in the state of warfare in which the European Powers were then ...
... France or Spain ; while the third continu- ally accompanied the travelers on a long train of mules , and was anxiously kept under their own eyes . Of the two former sets , in the state of warfare in which the European Powers were then ...
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... France became worse after Marat's death than even it had been be- fore . Let us add , that taking a general view and looking over the whole list of political assassinations , judicial and pri- vate , we do not find one case in which the ...
... France became worse after Marat's death than even it had been be- fore . Let us add , that taking a general view and looking over the whole list of political assassinations , judicial and pri- vate , we do not find one case in which the ...
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... France , by the execution of the Queen , we shall not say a word ; the eloquence of Burke has made it patent forever . She was buried , as her husband had been , in the cemetery of the Madeleine de la Ville- l'Evêque , where indeed most ...
... France , by the execution of the Queen , we shall not say a word ; the eloquence of Burke has made it patent forever . She was buried , as her husband had been , in the cemetery of the Madeleine de la Ville- l'Evêque , where indeed most ...
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Page 484 - From the lone shieling of the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas — Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides : Fair these broad meads, &c.
Page 480 - WHY, William, on that old grey stone, Thus for the length of half a day, Why, William, sit you thus alone, And dream your time away ? " Where are your books ? — that light bequeathed To beings else forlorn and blind ! Up ! up ! and drink the spirit breathed From dead men to their kind. " You look round on your mother Earth, As if she for no purpose bore you ; As if you were her first-born birth, And none had lived before you...
Page 70 - That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Page 254 - To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her...
Page 388 - The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Page 23 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold; And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald...
Page 149 - They may be naturally arranged into: 1. Those activities which directly minister to self-preservation; 2. Those activities which, by securing the necessaries of life, indirectly minister to self-preservation; 3. Those activities which have for their end the rearing and discipline of offspring; 4. Those activities which are involved in the maintenance of proper social and political relations; 5. Those miscellaneous activities which make up the leisure part of life, devoted to the gratification of...
Page 510 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 161 - The only history that is of practical value, is what may be called Descriptive Sociology. And the highest office which the historian can discharge, is that of so narrating the lives of nations, as to furnish materials for a Comparative Sociology ; and for the subsequent determination of the ultimate laws to which social phenomena conform.
Page 394 - ... swayed as by a wind. At the same moment the watch beside the revolver softly slid from the table, — softly, softly, — no visible hand ; it was gone. I sprang up, seizing the revolver with the one hand, the dagger with the other : I was not willing that my weapons should share the fate of the watch. Thus armed, I looked round the floor ; no sign of the watch. Three slow, loud, distinct knocks were now heard at the bed-head ; my servant called out, " Is that you, sir ? "