Macmillan's Magazine, 36. köideMacmillan and Company, 1877 |
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Page 56
... Perhaps Miss Martineau's history is not much better than Volney's , but her brisk sense is preferable to Volney's high à priori declamation and artificial rhetoric . Before starting for the East , Miss Martineau had settled a new plan ...
... Perhaps Miss Martineau's history is not much better than Volney's , but her brisk sense is preferable to Volney's high à priori declamation and artificial rhetoric . Before starting for the East , Miss Martineau had settled a new plan ...
Page 62
... perhaps the most interesting part of Pausanias ' invaluable guide - book to Greece is his collection of notes ( lib . vi . , 1-20 ) on various statues set up in this way at Olympia , of which he mentions about two hundred , though he ...
... perhaps the most interesting part of Pausanias ' invaluable guide - book to Greece is his collection of notes ( lib . vi . , 1-20 ) on various statues set up in this way at Olympia , of which he mentions about two hundred , though he ...
Page 69
... perhaps justly forgotten , and it is ungrateful to revive them from oblivion . The dust and dross of human conflict , the blood and the gall , the pain and the revenge - all this was laid aside like the athlete's dress , and could not ...
... perhaps justly forgotten , and it is ungrateful to revive them from oblivion . The dust and dross of human conflict , the blood and the gall , the pain and the revenge - all this was laid aside like the athlete's dress , and could not ...
Page 76
... perhaps the most powerful chief on the eastern border of the Transvaal Republic , and is able , it is said , to place 20,000 fighting men in the field . The real rights of the border question between the two con- tending parties are ...
... perhaps the most powerful chief on the eastern border of the Transvaal Republic , and is able , it is said , to place 20,000 fighting men in the field . The real rights of the border question between the two con- tending parties are ...
Page 78
... perhaps we should have no right to a voice in the matter , but it does not . It affects us in our position with the natives , and endangers our peace and security ; and it also affects us in our feelings as Christians and Englishmen ...
... perhaps we should have no right to a voice in the matter , but it does not . It affects us in our position with the natives , and endangers our peace and security ; and it also affects us in our feelings as Christians and Englishmen ...
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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...