The Canadian Monthly and National Review, 13. köideAdam, Stevenson & Company, 1878 |
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Page 36
... true , living , self - devoted man , full of the " enthu- siam of humanity , " and , despite his strange missing of the knowledge of God , one of the greatest and purest of uninspired teachers and reformers . The various names by which ...
... true , living , self - devoted man , full of the " enthu- siam of humanity , " and , despite his strange missing of the knowledge of God , one of the greatest and purest of uninspired teachers and reformers . The various names by which ...
Page 37
... true to the instinct of all contemplative minds , he was wont to escape frequently from the luxurious splendour of his father's court to meditate alone in the leafy solitudes of a neighbour - where - could he only find it - there must ...
... true to the instinct of all contemplative minds , he was wont to escape frequently from the luxurious splendour of his father's court to meditate alone in the leafy solitudes of a neighbour - where - could he only find it - there must ...
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... true without exception . " Go ye now , " he is re- faith . Left alone , he pursued his solitary ported to have said , " and preach the most meditations , plied , say the legends , by the excellent law , expounding every point thereof ...
... true without exception . " Go ye now , " he is re- faith . Left alone , he pursued his solitary ported to have said , " and preach the most meditations , plied , say the legends , by the excellent law , expounding every point thereof ...
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... true . " He If such words can be written by Christian men who clearly see wherein he failed to find the true , it is no wonder that his followers venerated him with a fervour which ended in idolatry . Notwithstanding his caution to them ...
... true . " He If such words can be written by Christian men who clearly see wherein he failed to find the true , it is no wonder that his followers venerated him with a fervour which ended in idolatry . Notwithstanding his caution to them ...
Page 47
... true . To have made a mis- take would have been terrible . All doubt upon the point , was , however , soon swept away by what followed - every word I shall remember all my life , for they are carved on my memory with letters of fire ...
... true . To have made a mis- take would have been terrible . All doubt upon the point , was , however , soon swept away by what followed - every word I shall remember all my life , for they are carved on my memory with letters of fire ...
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Page 364 - It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 377 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 111 - And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies : and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
Page 361 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas, and was fixed for centuries at the summit, or in secret rooms. I was the idol ; I was the priest ; I was worshipped ; I was sacrificed.
Page 145 - Lay her i' the earth; And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling.
Page 399 - If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them ; then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Page 339 - ... voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 362 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail : And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean : And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war...
Page 519 - Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection; and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment; they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented (of whom the world was not worthy); they wandered in deserts and in mountains and in dens...
Page 152 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual...