The Quarterly Review, Volume 141John Murray, 1876 |
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... opinion of others on this head , of this we feel quite certain , that none would ever have accomplished such great objects with less fuss , observation , or pretentiousness ; with less boastfulness of what they had done , perhaps with ...
... opinion of others on this head , of this we feel quite certain , that none would ever have accomplished such great objects with less fuss , observation , or pretentiousness ; with less boastfulness of what they had done , perhaps with ...
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... opinion of myself . " And before God , Browne , " said she , " they do me wrong , that will make so honest a servant be jealous that I should mistrust him , ” meaning Sidney . I forgot to tell your lordship that when I first kneeled I ...
... opinion of myself . " And before God , Browne , " said she , " they do me wrong , that will make so honest a servant be jealous that I should mistrust him , ” meaning Sidney . I forgot to tell your lordship that when I first kneeled I ...
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... opinion in point of faith and doctrine , as might confute all those who , judging others by themselves , are apt to censure all men to be of little or no religion , which by their calling are employed in matters of State and government ...
... opinion in point of faith and doctrine , as might confute all those who , judging others by themselves , are apt to censure all men to be of little or no religion , which by their calling are employed in matters of State and government ...
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... Swift always regarded his Dublin deanery as an exile , and always refused to regard Ireland as his country , merely because he was ' dropped ' there . life , character , and opinion to bring out in life , Forster's Life of Swift . 43.
... Swift always regarded his Dublin deanery as an exile , and always refused to regard Ireland as his country , merely because he was ' dropped ' there . life , character , and opinion to bring out in life , Forster's Life of Swift . 43.
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life , character , and opinion to bring out in forms which , how- ever fantastic , however frequently repulsive , have won for them- selves a permanent place in the modern mind , which they will no more lose with any generation of ...
life , character , and opinion to bring out in forms which , how- ever fantastic , however frequently repulsive , have won for them- selves a permanent place in the modern mind , which they will no more lose with any generation of ...
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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.