Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 31W. Blackwood & Sons, 1832 - Scotland |
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... Reason , ex- perience , history , philosophy , the events of the day , the wisdom of ages , their own previous opinions , their own recorded arguments , pro- duce no more impression on them than a feather on adamant . Such men are ...
... Reason , ex- perience , history , philosophy , the events of the day , the wisdom of ages , their own previous opinions , their own recorded arguments , pro- duce no more impression on them than a feather on adamant . Such men are ...
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... reason , let us not hope , or pray , or wish for salvation . We have been weighed in the balance and found wanting ; our empire is delivered to another people ; and as the merit- ed punishment for such flagrant in- gratitude and ...
... reason , let us not hope , or pray , or wish for salvation . We have been weighed in the balance and found wanting ; our empire is delivered to another people ; and as the merit- ed punishment for such flagrant in- gratitude and ...
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... reason by the performance of duty . In the outset of her struggle for freedom , France declared war against reli- gion ; and she will never obtain it till she has been brought by suffer- ing , to admit the spirit , and obey the ...
... reason by the performance of duty . In the outset of her struggle for freedom , France declared war against reli- gion ; and she will never obtain it till she has been brought by suffer- ing , to admit the spirit , and obey the ...
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... reason , that con- stitutions struck out at a heat , are never durable , and that those only survive the decay of time , which , like the oak , have slowly grown with the progress of ages . The spirit of innovation , the passion for ...
... reason , that con- stitutions struck out at a heat , are never durable , and that those only survive the decay of time , which , like the oak , have slowly grown with the progress of ages . The spirit of innovation , the passion for ...
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... reason is , that , at the former period , they were not infected with the torrent of error , delusion , and sophistry , with which , for the forty succeeding years , the Whigs have incessantly filled the public mind . The plain good ...
... reason is , that , at the former period , they were not infected with the torrent of error , delusion , and sophistry , with which , for the forty succeeding years , the Whigs have incessantly filled the public mind . The plain good ...
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Page 472 - But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up, 44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Page 29 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Page 498 - ... we therefore commit his body to the ground ; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ : who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working, whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.
Page 264 - Twas thus, by the cave of the mountain afar, While his harp rung symphonious, a hermit began ; No more with himself or with nature at war, He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.
Page 282 - Let's forge a goodly anchor ; a Bower, thick and broad : For a heart of oak is hanging on every blow, I bode ; And I see the good ship riding all in a perilous road, The low reef roaring on her lee ; the roll of ocean...
Page 282 - King, and royal craftsmen we ; Strike in, strike in, the sparks begin to dull their rustling red!" Our hammers ring with sharper din, our work will soon be sped ; Our anchor soon must change...
Page 281 - tis at a white heat now: The bellows ceased, the flames decreased though on the forge's brow The little flames still fitfully play through the sable mound, And fitfully you still may see the grim smiths ranking round, All clad in leathern panoply, their broad hands only bare: Some rest upon their sledges here, some work the windlass there.
Page 545 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Page 261 - Heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass, The earth of flaming sulphur, yet I am not mad. I am acquainted with sad misery As the tanned galley-slave is with his oar; Necessity makes me suffer constantly, And custom makes it easy.
Page 216 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.