The Saturday Magazine, Volume 1J. W. Parker, 1833 |
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... taken to join in the abuse of the authors of sundry great books in VOL . I. An old Latin poet , a very fashionable man in his day , said that the most popular book would be that which mixed up the useful with the agreeable . We shall ...
... taken to join in the abuse of the authors of sundry great books in VOL . I. An old Latin poet , a very fashionable man in his day , said that the most popular book would be that which mixed up the useful with the agreeable . We shall ...
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... taken place in Great Britain within the last century . In the reign of Henry VIII , the gentry had wheat sufficient for their own tables , but their household and poor neighbours were usually obliged to content themselves with rye ...
... taken place in Great Britain within the last century . In the reign of Henry VIII , the gentry had wheat sufficient for their own tables , but their household and poor neighbours were usually obliged to content themselves with rye ...
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... taken place in the chiefly as the scourge of imposture - the ponderous - condition of the population , in respect of food , will hammer that smote the brazen idolatry of his age .... be obvious . The Reformer of Christian morals has ...
... taken place in the chiefly as the scourge of imposture - the ponderous - condition of the population , in respect of food , will hammer that smote the brazen idolatry of his age .... be obvious . The Reformer of Christian morals has ...
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... taken . into a god . They brought it to the Rajah , who , with In the ancient chronicles mention is made of the worship of Jagganátha at a very early period : for on the invasion of the kingdom of Orissa by a foreign power , in the ...
... taken . into a god . They brought it to the Rajah , who , with In the ancient chronicles mention is made of the worship of Jagganátha at a very early period : for on the invasion of the kingdom of Orissa by a foreign power , in the ...
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... taken from a manuscript of the fourteenth century : it is intended as a representation of King David , and is affixed to one of his Psalms . The arrival of kings , and great personages , was anciently greeted by ringing the church bells ...
... taken from a manuscript of the fourteenth century : it is intended as a representation of King David , and is affixed to one of his Psalms . The arrival of kings , and great personages , was anciently greeted by ringing the church bells ...
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Page 34 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 106 - ... the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.
Page 226 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 117 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like...
Page 65 - For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Page 15 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 106 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace : and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Page 44 - And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
Page 152 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill...
Page 192 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth, often die before us: and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where, though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.