Littell's Living Age, Volume 99Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1868 |
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... Highland hills all false hopes and idle greatness . The bells black with storms , the lonely , desolate , of the Santi Apostoli , and many a church northern seas , the wild moors and moun- beside , kept ringing in their young ears tain ...
... Highland hills all false hopes and idle greatness . The bells black with storms , the lonely , desolate , of the Santi Apostoli , and many a church northern seas , the wild moors and moun- beside , kept ringing in their young ears tain ...
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... Highland gentleman , one of the busy con- Mann , the envoy at Florence . " Trust to spirators of the time , in whom he seems to my friendship for working every engine to have been able to repose scanty faith . " The restore you to as ...
... Highland gentleman , one of the busy con- Mann , the envoy at Florence . " Trust to spirators of the time , in whom he seems to my friendship for working every engine to have been able to repose scanty faith . " The restore you to as ...
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... Highland fervour ; though not an- other man in the Highlands should draw a sword , I am ready to die for you ! " This eager outburst of devotion , and the sudden emotion with which Charles , wound up to the uttermost , and at the point ...
... Highland fervour ; though not an- other man in the Highlands should draw a sword , I am ready to die for you ! " This eager outburst of devotion , and the sudden emotion with which Charles , wound up to the uttermost , and at the point ...
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... highland clans . Against this final argument no Highland It is something for a man to prove himself heart could stand . " Not so , " said Lochiel , generous in victory , gay , friendly , magnan- moved out of all prudence ; " I will ...
... highland clans . Against this final argument no Highland It is something for a man to prove himself heart could stand . " Not so , " said Lochiel , generous in victory , gay , friendly , magnan- moved out of all prudence ; " I will ...
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... Highland garb the spirit of his earlier forefathers . Immediately after this The standard was raised on the 19th of ceremony , and not more than a month from August in Glenfinnan . On the eve of this the moment of his landing , in his ...
... Highland garb the spirit of his earlier forefathers . Immediately after this The standard was raised on the 19th of ceremony , and not more than a month from August in Glenfinnan . On the eve of this the moment of his landing , in his ...
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Page 311 - Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 460 - ... the passage from' the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 286 - That thence the Royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor call'd the Gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Page 448 - The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Page 47 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on Earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner...
Page 461 - ... to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain ; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be ; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the • solution of the problem, ' How are these physical processes...
Page 199 - Until they won her ; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Page 80 - Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is Sin, then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness in the universe — is it, like Sorrow, merely an element of human education, through which we struggle to a higher and purer state than we could otherwise have attained? Did Adam fall, that we might ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his?
Page 448 - Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.