The North British Review, 26–27. köideW.P. Kennedy, 1857 |
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... measure conjectural , and might be a Mind , has been moving forward through shown to be of small logical value ; inasmuch its preconcerted stages . Man - the last- as they would support a belief which in re- fashioned of all orders and ...
... measure conjectural , and might be a Mind , has been moving forward through shown to be of small logical value ; inasmuch its preconcerted stages . Man - the last- as they would support a belief which in re- fashioned of all orders and ...
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... measure of his actual performances , so as that when at length he falls , although full of days , and worn with years of self - denying labour , we yet think that he is gone too soon , and has left a work unfinished which he only could ...
... measure of his actual performances , so as that when at length he falls , although full of days , and worn with years of self - denying labour , we yet think that he is gone too soon , and has left a work unfinished which he only could ...
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... measure of light was , nor constitutional government seem able to they acted up to what they knew , as faith - supply . Whether our forefathers also lacked fully as we do ; and that , on the whole , it was not their fault if they did ...
... measure of light was , nor constitutional government seem able to they acted up to what they knew , as faith - supply . Whether our forefathers also lacked fully as we do ; and that , on the whole , it was not their fault if they did ...
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... measures tends to publish , with additions from his designed to invigorate the Church . At last own reading , as soon as he has brought his arises in the divorce question , the accident history down to the end of Henry the which brings ...
... measures tends to publish , with additions from his designed to invigorate the Church . At last own reading , as soon as he has brought his arises in the divorce question , the accident history down to the end of Henry the which brings ...
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... measure so extreme in its severity was partly dictated by policy . The state of the coun- try was critical ; and the danger from questionable persons traversing it unexamined and uncontrolled was greater than at ordinary times . But in ...
... measure so extreme in its severity was partly dictated by policy . The state of the coun- try was critical ; and the danger from questionable persons traversing it unexamined and uncontrolled was greater than at ordinary times . But in ...
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Page 239 - And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me. Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair: And a voice said in mastery, while I strove, — 'Guess now who holds thee?' — 'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, — 'Not Death, but Love.
Page 19 - My God, the spring of all my joys, The life of my delights, The glory of my brightest days, And comfort of my nights.
Page 20 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God : All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
Page 19 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 175 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 104 - Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us : thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us...
Page 135 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour.
Page 11 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see, in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart bv the pleasure of the eye.
Page 20 - My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand And there confess my sin.
Page 10 - Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business...