The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 48Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1859 |
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... Never , " says My- conius , with a little of the exaggeration of a dear friend , " had there been seen a priest in ... never reproached me with being a Lutheran , until they had declared Lu- ther a heretic , which , however , they could ...
... Never , " says My- conius , with a little of the exaggeration of a dear friend , " had there been seen a priest in ... never reproached me with being a Lutheran , until they had declared Lu- ther a heretic , which , however , they could ...
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... never sound so cheerful , and the red coals never send forth so bright a glow or so genial a warmth , as when the wintry blast is howling without , and dreary blackness broods over the landscape . The vivid imagination and the warm ...
... never sound so cheerful , and the red coals never send forth so bright a glow or so genial a warmth , as when the wintry blast is howling without , and dreary blackness broods over the landscape . The vivid imagination and the warm ...
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... never afterwards . M'Clure's danger was not a solitary instance . In 1829 , Sir John Ross got blocked up near the bottom of Boothia Bay , and was unheard of for four years . Every body believed him dead ; when one morning the Isabella ...
... never afterwards . M'Clure's danger was not a solitary instance . In 1829 , Sir John Ross got blocked up near the bottom of Boothia Bay , and was unheard of for four years . Every body believed him dead ; when one morning the Isabella ...
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... never doing any harm ; and sometimes portion of one of these glaciers gave way rendering the most essential services . and burst into the sea , where it at once We have read , indeed , of one doting old began existence as a berg . Dr ...
... never doing any harm ; and sometimes portion of one of these glaciers gave way rendering the most essential services . and burst into the sea , where it at once We have read , indeed , of one doting old began existence as a berg . Dr ...
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... never forgets the man to whom he owes his independence ; and this is the secret of Kossuth's unbounded popu- larity in Hungary . Thus the Hungarian revolution , though unsuccessful as regards the independence of the country , be ...
... never forgets the man to whom he owes his independence ; and this is the secret of Kossuth's unbounded popu- larity in Hungary . Thus the Hungarian revolution , though unsuccessful as regards the independence of the country , be ...
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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 ? "