The National Review, Volume 10Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1860 |
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... MADAME RECAMIER . Souvenirs et Correspondance tirés des Papiers de Madame Récamier . 1859 . SUCH is the title of a publication which has excited more curi- osity than any biography neither scandalous nor immoral that has appeared in ...
... MADAME RECAMIER . Souvenirs et Correspondance tirés des Papiers de Madame Récamier . 1859 . SUCH is the title of a publication which has excited more curi- osity than any biography neither scandalous nor immoral that has appeared in ...
Page 348
... Madame Lenormant for publishing them , and more particularly for the portrait she has so well traced of Mathieu de Montmorency , -the pearl of the book both for its beauty and rarity . There are three epochs in Madame Récamier's life ...
... Madame Lenormant for publishing them , and more particularly for the portrait she has so well traced of Mathieu de Montmorency , -the pearl of the book both for its beauty and rarity . There are three epochs in Madame Récamier's life ...
Page 349
... Madame Récamier's career , we must make an effort to picture to ourselves the total dislo- cation of all social order , or we shall never conceive the strange adventures and positions to which every body was reduced during the several ...
... Madame Récamier's career , we must make an effort to picture to ourselves the total dislo- cation of all social order , or we shall never conceive the strange adventures and positions to which every body was reduced during the several ...
Page 350
... Récamier was a banker , rich for such times ; and riches were a sufficient ground of accusation with the Comité du Salut public . Madame Lenormant relates that M. Récamier went every day to see the people guillotined ; and that , when ...
... Récamier was a banker , rich for such times ; and riches were a sufficient ground of accusation with the Comité du Salut public . Madame Lenormant relates that M. Récamier went every day to see the people guillotined ; and that , when ...
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... Madame Récamier , shy and childish of her age , lived in complete retire- ment , even through the first fifteen months of the Directory . About 1796 , when a little security was reestablished , a violent love of ... Madame Récamier . 351.
... Madame Récamier , shy and childish of her age , lived in complete retire- ment , even through the first fifteen months of the Directory . About 1796 , when a little security was reestablished , a violent love of ... Madame Récamier . 351.
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Page 413 - And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
Page 103 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 395 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Page 395 - And fear came upon every soul : and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
Page 204 - If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?
Page 90 - And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part, why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quenched, And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused, That she might look at will through every pore?
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Page 200 - Hence we may infer as highly probable that, if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct or very rare in England, the heartsease and red clover would become very rare or wholly disappear. The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great...
Page 408 - Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John : who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
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