The Quarterly Review, Volume 113John Murray, 1863 |
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Page 418 - And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid and said, How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Page 418 - And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
Page 113 - And the saying pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch, whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
Page 128 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished; but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 413 - Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up : for God is able to make him stand.
Page 486 - ... had gained her heart while thus unhappily situated. Seduced, perhaps, by the charms of the lady in question, I thus attempted to palliate what I was sensible could not be justified ; for when I had finished my harangue, my venerable friend gave me a proper check : " My dear Sir, never accustom your mind to mingle virtue and vice. The woman's a whore, and there's an end on't.
Page 469 - Not so the sensation novelist. No divine influence can be imagined as presiding over the birth of his work, beyond the market-law of demand and supply ; no more immortality is dreamed of for it than for the fashions of the current season. A commercial atmosphere floats around works of this class, redolent of the manufactory and the shop. The public want THEIB CAUSES. 217 novels, and novels must be made — so many yards of printed stuff, sensation-pattern, to be ready by the beginning of the season.
Page 131 - CLAY. — The Prison Chaplain. A Memoir of the Rev. JOHN CLAY, BD late Chaplain of the Preston Gaol. With Selections from his Reports and Correspondence, and a Sketch of Prison Discipline in England. By his Son, the Rev. WL CLAY, MA 8vo. 15s. The Power of the Keys. . Sermons preached in Coventry. By the Rev. WL CLAY, MA Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. Clemency FranJdyn. By the author of "Janet's Home.
Page 228 - With respect to Wilson's merits as a writer, a variety of judgments will be formed. His poetry can never, in our opinion, take a foremost place among English classics. His prose tales, ' Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life,' ' The Trials of Margaret Lindsay,' ' The Foresters,' &c., had their day. Probably no man, living or dead, could have written them except himself ; yet we doubt whether they will find many readers a dozen years hence. Of his criticism, likewise, we are constrained to observe that...
Page 207 - The earth hath bubbles as the water hath ; And these are of them !