The Nineteenth Century, 10. köideHenry S. King & Company, 1881 |
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Aberdeenshire agricultural alluvium authority better Bill Boileau bread British called Carlyle cause century character Christian Church civilisation colonies Comstock Lode doubt duty Ecclefechan Ecitons England English estates existence exports fact faith favour feeling force foreign France free trade French gold Government hand hope House of Commons House of Lords human important increased industries influence interest Ireland Irish Irish Land Act Jewish Jews Kirkcaldy labour land landlord legislation less living look Lord manufactures matter means ment mind moral nation nature never object officers Pantheism Parliament party passed perhaps political popular practical present produce prosperity protection question race Ralegh reason regard religion religious rent scrutin de liste seems spirit tenant things Thomas Carlyle thought tion Tripoli true truth whole words write Youghal
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Page 286 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, ' And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Page 17 - Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
Page 432 - For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this ; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
Page 11 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 716 - Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.
Page 815 - And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more.
Page 144 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 848 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Page 42 - Hast thou not a heart; canst thou not suffer whatsoever it be; and, as a Child of Freedom, though outcast, trample Tophet itself under thy feet, while it consumes thee? Let it come, then; I will meet it and defy it!
Page 152 - Thy voice is on the rolling air ; I hear thee where the waters run ; Thou standest in the rising sun. And in the setting thou art fair.