The National Quarterly Review, Volume 6Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman Pudney & Russell, 1863 |
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... honor , contrib- uted portions of it . Be this as it may , scarcely any other production , ancient or modern , sacred or profane , exhibits so much variety . Strange as it may seem to those who read it only in an English dress , it ...
... honor , contrib- uted portions of it . Be this as it may , scarcely any other production , ancient or modern , sacred or profane , exhibits so much variety . Strange as it may seem to those who read it only in an English dress , it ...
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... honored him . The life of the Greeks allured them , .because it was at once convenient and useful to their own mental and bodily self - indulgence ; nay , the os rotundum of the Greek muse , as imitated by the Romans , by degrees ...
... honored him . The life of the Greeks allured them , .because it was at once convenient and useful to their own mental and bodily self - indulgence ; nay , the os rotundum of the Greek muse , as imitated by the Romans , by degrees ...
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... honored , respected and obeyed by those about them ; and , as Adam sacrificed God and eternity , so his children , to satisfy this desire , have ever since been giving up love , home , country and heaven . Of old this feeling in the ...
... honored , respected and obeyed by those about them ; and , as Adam sacrificed God and eternity , so his children , to satisfy this desire , have ever since been giving up love , home , country and heaven . Of old this feeling in the ...
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... honored be he who first heard his duty call him ; ) at first also the old Cavalier enthusiasm prevailed . But the same blood which swelled the hearts of old Cromwell's heroes under their iron jerkin is now fired again by a sense of duty ...
... honored be he who first heard his duty call him ; ) at first also the old Cavalier enthusiasm prevailed . But the same blood which swelled the hearts of old Cromwell's heroes under their iron jerkin is now fired again by a sense of duty ...
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... honor in his own country because he is a prophet ; because he is lifted by a divine right founded in his faculties and powers above his fellows . Talent cannot enter into the soul of genius ; for the one works by maxims and rules ...
... honor in his own country because he is a prophet ; because he is lifted by a divine right founded in his faculties and powers above his fellows . Talent cannot enter into the soul of genius ; for the one works by maxims and rules ...
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Page 249 - Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years. And let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth...
Page 124 - But howsoever, these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 122 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 285 - If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy.
Page 312 - It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it; they cannot reach it.
Page 270 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 125 - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Page 312 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action/ In July 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument.
Page 270 - And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us.
Page 285 - The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters and authority commanded involuntary respect.