 It lives on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and...  The North British Review - Page 571869Full view - About this book
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...that can never be forgotten — like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost...national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness. Nay, it is worshipped with a positive idolatry, in extenuation of whose grotesque fanaticism, its intrinsic... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pages
...church bell, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often •••'•riu to be almost things rather than mere words. It is...passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the gifts and trials of a man is hidden beneath its... | |
 | 1861 - 716 pages
...music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church-bells which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost...passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its... | |
 | 1870 - 878 pages
...hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities seem to be almost things instead of words ; it is a part of the national mind, and the anchor of national...passes into it ; the potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses ; the power of all the griefs and trials of a man is bidden beneath its... | |
 | 1911 - 856 pages
...forgotten, like the sound of church bells which the convert scarcely knows how he can forego. . . . The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. lt is the representative of a man's best moments; all that there is... | |
 | 1881 - 792 pages
...music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert knows not how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness. Nay, it is worshipped... | |
 | 1855 - 336 pages
...bells, which the convert hardly tnows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost tilings rather than mere words. It Is part of the national...national seriousness. . . . The memory of the dead paases Into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped In Its verses. The power of all... | |
 | 1856 - 504 pages
...forgotten, like the sound of church bells which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It...passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - 678 pages
...that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost...national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness. Nay, it is worshipped with a positive idolatry, in extenuation of whose grotesque fanaticism its intrinsic... | |
 | Horace Bushnell - 1853 - 154 pages
...hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities seem to be almost things, rather than mere words. It is a part of the national mind, and the anchor of national...passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of man is hidden beneath its... | |
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