The Quarterly Review, Volume 141John Murray, 1876 |
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... authority which had hitherto continued for so many years in a purely English race . We question whether any two statesmen ever had more grave or knotty problems to solve , compared with which our Chinese or Indian perplexities , and our ...
... authority which had hitherto continued for so many years in a purely English race . We question whether any two statesmen ever had more grave or knotty problems to solve , compared with which our Chinese or Indian perplexities , and our ...
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... authorities , in the year 1545 , two years before the death of Henry VIII . , he married Mildred , the eldest daughter of Sir Anthony Cook , sister to Ann , the mother of Sir Francis Bacon , and to Elizabeth , the wife of John Lord ...
... authorities , in the year 1545 , two years before the death of Henry VIII . , he married Mildred , the eldest daughter of Sir Anthony Cook , sister to Ann , the mother of Sir Francis Bacon , and to Elizabeth , the wife of John Lord ...
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... authority , and falling into a greater absurdity than that which he avoids . Would Essex commit the ring to his known enemy , and desire her to deliver it to the Queen ? It was not Lady Nottingham but Lady Scroope , who was a friend of ...
... authority , and falling into a greater absurdity than that which he avoids . Would Essex commit the ring to his known enemy , and desire her to deliver it to the Queen ? It was not Lady Nottingham but Lady Scroope , who was a friend of ...
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... authority of a ' wise friend , ' had repeated a gross accusation of corruption against his cousin . Then finding that he was mistaken , he retracted the imputation against his right honourable kinsman and good friend , Sir Robert Cecil ...
... authority of a ' wise friend , ' had repeated a gross accusation of corruption against his cousin . Then finding that he was mistaken , he retracted the imputation against his right honourable kinsman and good friend , Sir Robert Cecil ...
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... authority of a daughter of his friend , the first Lord Bathurst : this lady was particularly dis- gusted with his habit of swearing . ' 6 The occasional brusquerie and eccentricity of Swift's manners , especially in his later years , is ...
... authority of a daughter of his friend , the first Lord Bathurst : this lady was particularly dis- gusted with his habit of swearing . ' 6 The occasional brusquerie and eccentricity of Swift's manners , especially in his later years , is ...
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Page 505 - Pale as his shirt ; his knees knocking each other ; And with a look so piteous in purport, As if he had been loosed out of hell, To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Page 529 - For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
Page 518 - And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
Page 541 - And when there is a Communion, the Priest shall then place upon the Table so much Bread and Wine, as he shall think sufficient.
Page 7 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world...
Page 529 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 127 - He spake of love, such love as Spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away — no strife to heal — The past unsighed for, and the future sure; 100.
Page 253 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
Page 129 - For a multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind; and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident which the rapid communication of intelligence...
Page 49 - I knew her from six years old, and had some share in her education, by directing what books she should read, and perpetually instructing her in the principles of honour and virtue ; from which she never swerved in any one action or moment of her life.