The North British Review, 19. köideW.P. Kennedy, 1853 |
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... Original Syriac , with an introduction and Historical and Philological Notes . By the Rev. Henry Burgess , Ph . D. of Göttingen , a Presbyter of the Church of England , Translator of the Festal Letters of Athanasius from an Ancient ...
... Original Syriac , with an introduction and Historical and Philological Notes . By the Rev. Henry Burgess , Ph . D. of Göttingen , a Presbyter of the Church of England , Translator of the Festal Letters of Athanasius from an Ancient ...
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... original author's entire satisfaction , and the undoubted advantage of the reading public . But Mr. Audubon's merits were none the less , as the admirable observer and accurate recorder of all that we are there told of those " birds of ...
... original author's entire satisfaction , and the undoubted advantage of the reading public . But Mr. Audubon's merits were none the less , as the admirable observer and accurate recorder of all that we are there told of those " birds of ...
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... original Grallæ , of the grebes , the Surinam plotus , the phalaropes , & c . , which now form , according to the views of many , under the name of Pinnatipedes , a distinct and intermediate , but by no means a natural order . Although ...
... original Grallæ , of the grebes , the Surinam plotus , the phalaropes , & c . , which now form , according to the views of many , under the name of Pinnatipedes , a distinct and intermediate , but by no means a natural order . Although ...
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... that Dr. Bunsen has not embraced in it ( in full and in the original ) the recovered treatise attributed to Hippolytus . Occasion of the Work . 87 skilfully limned picture . 86 Bunsen's " Hippolytus ; " its Method and Results .
... that Dr. Bunsen has not embraced in it ( in full and in the original ) the recovered treatise attributed to Hippolytus . Occasion of the Work . 87 skilfully limned picture . 86 Bunsen's " Hippolytus ; " its Method and Results .
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... original sources , or in its successive forms throughout the history of the Church . To have recourse either to the Bible itself , or the writings of the fathers , in a different spirit , and to seek in them , not simply for the Truth ...
... original sources , or in its successive forms throughout the history of the Church . To have recourse either to the Bible itself , or the writings of the fathers , in a different spirit , and to seek in them , not simply for the Truth ...
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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!