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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... give the prize for the best Welsh essay at a grand Eistedfodd , then a novelty and an event . He saw a great deal of Gladstone at this time ( 1838 ) , and calls him " the first man in England as to intellectual power . He has heard ...
... give the prize for the best Welsh essay at a grand Eistedfodd , then a novelty and an event . He saw a great deal of Gladstone at this time ( 1838 ) , and calls him " the first man in England as to intellectual power . He has heard ...
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... give rise to the oddest intermixture of images . I might , for example , dream on that somebody was beginning to shat- ter the furniture of the bali - room , or that it was suddenly invaded by a throng of wailing women , and so on . Yet ...
... give rise to the oddest intermixture of images . I might , for example , dream on that somebody was beginning to shat- ter the furniture of the bali - room , or that it was suddenly invaded by a throng of wailing women , and so on . Yet ...
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... give it greater in- tensity , distinctness , and persistence . In other instances , this exercise of atten- tion may ... gives a certain bent to attention , dis- posing the mind to see in every new dream - object a connected element , an ...
... give it greater in- tensity , distinctness , and persistence . In other instances , this exercise of atten- tion may ... gives a certain bent to attention , dis- posing the mind to see in every new dream - object a connected element , an ...
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... gives an emotional unity to the images of the brain ; and this is the uni- ty which holds together the many other- wise ... give an example or two : -In interpreting bodily sensations , there is often the most grotesque exaggeration . A ...
... gives an emotional unity to the images of the brain ; and this is the uni- ty which holds together the many other- wise ... give an example or two : -In interpreting bodily sensations , there is often the most grotesque exaggeration . A ...
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... give distinct- ness and permanence to the idea of bod- ily locality . The internal parts of the body are wholly inaccessible to sight and touch , whilst even many parts of the bodily surface are rarely if ever seen or touched . Moreover ...
... give distinct- ness and permanence to the idea of bod- ily locality . The internal parts of the body are wholly inaccessible to sight and touch , whilst even many parts of the bodily surface are rarely if ever seen or touched . Moreover ...
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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.