Macmillan's Magazine, 36. köideMacmillan and Company, 1877 |
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... matter out of the path of living progress is of itself a positive gain . But the signs of the capability of future improvement in Religion are more direct than this . No doubt theo- logians have themselves to thank for the rigid ...
... matter out of the path of living progress is of itself a positive gain . But the signs of the capability of future improvement in Religion are more direct than this . No doubt theo- logians have themselves to thank for the rigid ...
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... matter - of - fact inter- pretation of those who said , " How can this man give us his flesh to eat ? " or " It is because we have taken no bread . " In short , when it was per- ceived , in the noble language of Burke , 1 that the Bible ...
... matter - of - fact inter- pretation of those who said , " How can this man give us his flesh to eat ? " or " It is because we have taken no bread . " In short , when it was per- ceived , in the noble language of Burke , 1 that the Bible ...
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... kept her from realising the more simple necessities of the matter . It had cost her so much to establish them there , and the tacit victory over fate , unnatural prejudice , and all the bondage of family troubles , 16 Young Musgrave .
... kept her from realising the more simple necessities of the matter . It had cost her so much to establish them there , and the tacit victory over fate , unnatural prejudice , and all the bondage of family troubles , 16 Young Musgrave .
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... matter . For the more she thought of it , the more dark her way seemed before her . It might be possible to push Nello for- ward in his Latin and Greek , and help him to something like an education . But Lilias ! The means of Mary's own ...
... matter . For the more she thought of it , the more dark her way seemed before her . It might be possible to push Nello for- ward in his Latin and Greek , and help him to something like an education . But Lilias ! The means of Mary's own ...
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... matter , it is to be feared this would have closed more firmly , not opened her mouth . But she had not so much as thought on the subject . She had written her periodical letter announcing that her father was pretty well ; that he had ...
... matter , it is to be feared this would have closed more firmly , not opened her mouth . But she had not so much as thought on the subject . She had written her periodical letter announcing that her father was pretty well ; that he had ...
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Page 380 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 295 - They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband.
Page 4 - I beseech you remember, it is an article 'of your church covenant, that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the written word of God.
Page 296 - Therefore every honourable connexion will avow it is their first purpose, to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the state.
Page 296 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 216 - A voice as of the cherub-choir Gales from blooming Eden bear, And distant warblings lessen on my ear That lost in long futurity expire.
Page 493 - M'ôter, pour faire bien, du grenier de céans Cette longue lunette à faire peur aux gens, Et cent brimborions dont l'aspect importune; Ne point aller chercher ce qu'on fait dans la lune, Et vous mêler un peu de ce qu'on fait chez vous, Où nous voyons aller tout sens dessus dessous.
Page 493 - Saturne, et Mars, dont je n'ai point affaire; Et dans ce vain savoir, qu'on va chercher si loin, On ne sait comme va mon pot, dont j'ai besoin. Mes gens à la science aspirent pour vous plaire , Et tous ne font rien moins que ce qu'ils ont à faire; Raisonner est l'emploi de toute ma maison; Et le raisonnement en bannit la raison.
Page 4 - Christian charity's sake, to admonish us of the same in writing ; and we, upon our honour and fidelity, do promise unto him satisfaction from the mouth of God, that is, from his holy scriptures, or else reformation of that which he shall prove to be amiss.
Page 375 - But see, his face is black and full of blood, His eye-balls further out than when he lived, Staring full ghastly like a strangled man; His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life and was by strength subdued...