The North British Review, 19. köideW.P. Kennedy, 1853 |
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... dilate . Yet there are points of interest , even of difficulty in its history , which we , the critical expositor , should ourselves Increase of Summer Woodcocks . 29 be glad to have 28 Macgillivray's British Birds .
... dilate . Yet there are points of interest , even of difficulty in its history , which we , the critical expositor , should ourselves Increase of Summer Woodcocks . 29 be glad to have 28 Macgillivray's British Birds .
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... critical position of their country to render her a check upon the ambition of the two contiguous empires ; or whether , on the other hand , she shall be ground down under an alien , a leaden , and an ignomi- nious sceptre which will ...
... critical position of their country to render her a check upon the ambition of the two contiguous empires ; or whether , on the other hand , she shall be ground down under an alien , a leaden , and an ignomi- nious sceptre which will ...
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... critical research and philosophical spirit , with the richest gifts as a writer - the most lofty yet chastened eloquence , and a finely descriptive skill when he chooses to exert it - the comparatively rare endowments of his critical ...
... critical research and philosophical spirit , with the richest gifts as a writer - the most lofty yet chastened eloquence , and a finely descriptive skill when he chooses to exert it - the comparatively rare endowments of his critical ...
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... Critical Enquiry , " to establish these conclusions ; and there can scarcely remain any doubt of the success with which this part of the work is accomplished . * In In expressing our conviction of the success with which Dr. Bunsen has ...
... Critical Enquiry , " to establish these conclusions ; and there can scarcely remain any doubt of the success with which this part of the work is accomplished . * In In expressing our conviction of the success with which Dr. Bunsen has ...
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... critical method which is so characteristic of the work , and then some of the more prominent results which it presents for our consideration . To treat amply the different subjects suggested in such a book is , of course , equally ...
... critical method which is so characteristic of the work , and then some of the more prominent results which it presents for our consideration . To treat amply the different subjects suggested in such a book is , of course , equally ...
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Page 322 - Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow ! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks ! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head ! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world ! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, That make ingrateful man ! Fool.
Page 300 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page 268 - And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear.
Page 320 - And for three hours he sobb'd o'er William's child Thinking of William. So those four abode Within one house together ; and as years Went forward, Mary took another mate ; But Dora lived unmarried till her death.
Page 316 - Stop and consider ! life is but a day, A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit ; a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci. Why so sad a moan ? Life is the rose's hope while yet unblown ; The reading of an ever-changing tale ; The light uplifting of a maiden's veil ; A pigeon tumbling in clear summer air ; A laughing school-boy, without grief or care, Riding the springy branches of an elm.
Page 300 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 130 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ; Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Page 424 - I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put My words in His mouth ; and He shall speak unto them all that I shall command Him.
Page 322 - Moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 322 - Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!