Littell's Living Age, Volume 99Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1868 |
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... seems to have had heart enough left even to compare the dismal omens of this field with what might have been had Cumberland been met at Falkirk , or to cast the contrast in the teeth of the captains who had retreated only for this ...
... seems to have had heart enough left even to compare the dismal omens of this field with what might have been had Cumberland been met at Falkirk , or to cast the contrast in the teeth of the captains who had retreated only for this ...
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... seems practically exhaustless , or if de- stroyed is , like the wealth of Egypt , re- newed in the next overtlooding . Nobody in France is wealthy as in England , but in every one of those eight millions of houses there is cash , cash ...
... seems practically exhaustless , or if de- stroyed is , like the wealth of Egypt , re- newed in the next overtlooding . Nobody in France is wealthy as in England , but in every one of those eight millions of houses there is cash , cash ...
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... seem , therefore , to be at once less favourable conditions for the gen- eration of the idealistic faculty , on the ... seems to be set aloof from the possibility of personal concern- ment , and bestows the whole measure of its hope or ...
... seem , therefore , to be at once less favourable conditions for the gen- eration of the idealistic faculty , on the ... seems to be set aloof from the possibility of personal concern- ment , and bestows the whole measure of its hope or ...
Page 68
... seems with snake - like ease and grace to curve itself round the quaintest forms , and to insinuate itself into the most tortuous convolutions of thought and sentiment . So far as mere language is concerned , there are few writers that ...
... seems with snake - like ease and grace to curve itself round the quaintest forms , and to insinuate itself into the most tortuous convolutions of thought and sentiment . So far as mere language is concerned , there are few writers that ...
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... seems little else than a thread to string such pic- ture - beads on . He neither gives a detailed and many - sided portraiture , setting forth , as fully as that may be done , the complete individuality ; nor , as is more the special ...
... seems little else than a thread to string such pic- ture - beads on . He neither gives a detailed and many - sided portraiture , setting forth , as fully as that may be done , the complete individuality ; nor , as is more the special ...
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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.