The Jew exile: a pedestrian tour and residence in the most remote districts of the highlands and islands of Scotland under persecution, Volume 21828 |
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Page 19 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 29 - Exchange the shepherd's frock of native grey For robes with regal purple tinged; convert The crook into a sceptre ; give the pomp Of circumstance ; and here the tragic Muse Shall find apt subjects for her highest art. Amid the groves, under the shadowy hills, The generations are prepared ; the pangs, The internal pangs, are ready; the dread strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will...
Page 29 - ... Winifred Jenkins are pleasingly characteristic, and capable of surprising the most solemn of mankind into laughter, if their features be not kept steady by stupidity as well as pride. From the assemblies of high life Dr. Smollett thought that humour was banished by ceremony, affectation, and cards ; that nature being castigated almost to still life> mirth never appeared but in an insipid grin.
Page 39 - He that hath not music in his soul, Is fit for treason, stratagem, and spoil.
Page 39 - ... preservation of the Religious man from a corresponding dishevelment. By the mercy of God, if he remain a good man, he may retain the crumbs which have fallen from that Table, and so retain the efficacy of saving Faith, but a fully Sanctified nature cannot be attained without the full food of the Sanctuary. We do not mean to say, that a man may not be a good man, upright, conscientious, and an ardent lover of Christ, outside the Church, — there have been many such even among Friends. Our position...