Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 25; Volume 88John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1877 - American periodicals |
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... existence . On one point they were as liberal as the Oxford undergraduate , who , when called on for a text to prove the unity of the Godhead , answered , ' There is but one God and Mahomet is his prophet . ' They believe that man has a ...
... existence . On one point they were as liberal as the Oxford undergraduate , who , when called on for a text to prove the unity of the Godhead , answered , ' There is but one God and Mahomet is his prophet . ' They believe that man has a ...
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... existence was at tended with wonderful results ; a kivig- tok not only acquired enormous agility , but learned the speech of animals , and even knew , how we cannot tell , all about the pillars which support this upper earth . In other ...
... existence was at tended with wonderful results ; a kivig- tok not only acquired enormous agility , but learned the speech of animals , and even knew , how we cannot tell , all about the pillars which support this upper earth . In other ...
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... existence , such as the English people alone have at this present time , is grand and elevating of itself . The power of thought belongs to us ( the Germans ) in this day of the world's history . . " There is a regret in the ring of the ...
... existence , such as the English people alone have at this present time , is grand and elevating of itself . The power of thought belongs to us ( the Germans ) in this day of the world's history . . " There is a regret in the ring of the ...
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... existence and common freedom , to pursue in faith the search after truth . In England the political life has eaten out the other . " " Plato says , that seven years of silent in- quiry are needful for a man to know the truth , but ...
... existence and common freedom , to pursue in faith the search after truth . In England the political life has eaten out the other . " " Plato says , that seven years of silent in- quiry are needful for a man to know the truth , but ...
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... existence of another Pacha's wives and daughters . This is one of the anomalies of Turkish life . It is sometimes considered requisite that the visit of the Pacha and his chief wife should be so timed that whilst the khan- ums are ...
... existence of another Pacha's wives and daughters . This is one of the anomalies of Turkish life . It is sometimes considered requisite that the visit of the Pacha and his chief wife should be so timed that whilst the khan- ums are ...
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Page 546 - ... and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.
Page 128 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 478 - Rest unto our souls." —Rest unto our souls! — 'tis all we want, — the end of all our wishes and pursuits : give us a prospect of this, we take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth...
Page 286 - Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Page 279 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 500 - Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms ! Now as they bore him off the field, Said he, "Let others shoot, For here I leave my second leg, And the Forty-second Foot!
Page 368 - An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek! Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, though hamely in attire, May touch the heart.
Page 211 - Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
Page 529 - Lord," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can.
Page 514 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.