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 471 - 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 484 - 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 97 - Through the azure deep of air, Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, With orient hues unborrowed of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far — but far above the great.
Page 500 - The Table, at the Communion-time having a fair white linen cloth upon it, shall stand in the Body of the Church, or in the Chancel, where Morning and Evening Prayer are appointed to be said.
Page 100 - He is a man speaking to men — a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind...
Page 505 - 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 99 - 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 506 - When the Priest, standing before the table, hath so ordered the bread and wine, that he may with the more readiness and decency break the bread before the people, and take the cup into his hands, he shall say the prayer of Consecration, as followeth...
Page 473 - I have here offered, than that music, architecture, and painting, as well as poetry and oratory, are to deduce their laws and rules from the general sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves; or, in other words, the taste is not to conform to the art, but the art to the ta&te.