Albany Review, Volume 1, Issues 1-3J. Lane, the Bodley Head ; New York, 1907 |
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Page 54 - The law of public worship in the Church of England is too narrow for the religious life of the present generation. It needlessly condemns much which a great section of Church people, including many of her most devoted members, value...
Page 212 - We have no knowledge of anything but phenomena; and our knowledge of phenomena is relative, not absolute. We know not the essence, nor the real mode of production of any fact, but only its relations to other facts in the way of succession or of similitude.
Page 58 - Those that are awake might hardly require a voice of such appalling clearness; those that sleep, it surely would awaken; of those that would not hear, it must be said, "Neither would they hear, though one rose from the dead.
Page 52 - ... conviction that the evidence gives no justification for any doubt that in the large majority of parishes the work of the church is being quietly and diligently performed by clergy who are entirely loyal to the principles of the English Reformation as expressed in the Book of Common Prayer.
Page 252 - In the present century a slow and silent, but very substantial, mitigation has taken place in the practice of war; and in proportion as that mitigated practice has received the sanction of time it is raised from the rank of mere usage, and becomes part of the law of nations.
Page 84 - I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher. "Night shall be thrice night over you, And heaven an iron cope. Do you have joy without a cause, Yea, faith without a hope?
Page 84 - Are written on the sky, They trim sad lamps, they touch sad strings, Hearing the heavy purple wings, Where the forgotten Seraph kings Still plot how God shall die. "The wise men know all evil things Under the twisted trees, Where the perverse in pleasure pine, And men are weary of green wine And sick of crimson seas. "But you and all the kind of Christ Are ignorant and brave, And you have wars you hardly win And souls you hardly save.
Page 156 - But they are still immortal Who, through birth's orient portal And death's dark chasm hurrying to and fro, Clothe their unceasing flight In the brief dust and light Gathered around their chariots as they go...
Page 24 - For enfranchisement of copyholds " ... n 3 5. " As proprietor " 18 2 6. " By sale to defray the expenses of the Act '' 449 i 1998 i Thus we find, in exchange for the ducal tithes, nearly a third of the whole area of the parish handed over — most of it certainly not the best lands, but lands having considerable value as woods and. moors. We find some acres adjudged to the duke in consideration of his kind " consent