The North British Review, Volumes 26-27Leonard Scott & Company, 1857 |
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... result . The words of the ty of all human things save Mr. Holyoake's story , taken literally and simply , no more self , is a fact which presses itself most on justify the notion that Canaan's slavery was those who have watched this age ...
... result . The words of the ty of all human things save Mr. Holyoake's story , taken literally and simply , no more self , is a fact which presses itself most on justify the notion that Canaan's slavery was those who have watched this age ...
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... result he is not responsible : it depends on facts ; and unless Mr. Froude has knowingly concealed facts , to an amount of which even a Lingard might be ashamed , the result is , that Henry the Eighth was actually very much the man ...
... result he is not responsible : it depends on facts ; and unless Mr. Froude has knowingly concealed facts , to an amount of which even a Lingard might be ashamed , the result is , that Henry the Eighth was actually very much the man ...
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... results . All this M. Le Play sets forth as preface to the announce- " Les personnes exerçant un travail manuel , ment ... result . The primitive type & c . , - gives a certain character of proprietor -- the patriarchal system — is the ...
... results . All this M. Le Play sets forth as preface to the announce- " Les personnes exerçant un travail manuel , ment ... result . The primitive type & c . , - gives a certain character of proprietor -- the patriarchal system — is the ...
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... result , often enter their master's households by mar- even of a fixed system , and of fixed rates of riage , and thus become part of the family remuneration , though outwardly more uni- while still acting as servants - giving their ...
... result , often enter their master's households by mar- even of a fixed system , and of fixed rates of riage , and thus become part of the family remuneration , though outwardly more uni- while still acting as servants - giving their ...
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... result of many , of which the crea- wash and iron and cook and bake ; and if tion of the class itself - of a class so there be then any leisure left from all these miserable and so nearly approaching des- duties , to read if she can ...
... result of many , of which the crea- wash and iron and cook and bake ; and if tion of the class itself - of a class so there be then any leisure left from all these miserable and so nearly approaching des- duties , to read if she can ...
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Page 71 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear : clouds they are without water, carried about of winds ; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots ; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame ; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Page 11 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Page 16 - Then I can smile at Satan's rage, And face a frowning world. 3 Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall ; May I but safely reach my home, My God, my heaven, my all : 4 There shall I bathe my weary soul, In seas of heavenly rest, And not a wave of trouble roll Across my peaceful breast.
Page 175 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 20 - COME, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 ' ' Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, "To be exalted thus!
Page 135 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour.
Page 175 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
Page 10 - Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business...
Page 104 - We praise Thee, we bless Thee, we worship Thee, we glorify Thee, we give thanks to Thee for Thy great glory, O LORD GOD, heavenly KING, GOD the FATHER Almighty.
Page 10 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age may correct the defects of both...