The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 5Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1830 - English literature |
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... sect , in order , as he believed , to obtain better means for serving his country and the world . He was wholly untainted by political or philosophical bigotry , which has corrupted so many of those who inveigh against every form of ...
... sect , in order , as he believed , to obtain better means for serving his country and the world . He was wholly untainted by political or philosophical bigotry , which has corrupted so many of those who inveigh against every form of ...
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... sect communicated with each other by a secret conventional language , and that they not only wrote some short compositions in poetry and prose in " Le Mura di Roma . " ↑ Rossetti , vol . ii . 284 . § Inf . xxxiv . 18 . Rossetti , vol ...
... sect communicated with each other by a secret conventional language , and that they not only wrote some short compositions in poetry and prose in " Le Mura di Roma . " ↑ Rossetti , vol . ii . 284 . § Inf . xxxiv . 18 . Rossetti , vol ...
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... sect published grammars , dictionaries , or catechisms , for the explanation of their gergo , " a proceeding that may at first appear very inconsistent with the principal object assigned for these conventional signs , viz . secrecy ...
... sect published grammars , dictionaries , or catechisms , for the explanation of their gergo , " a proceeding that may at first appear very inconsistent with the principal object assigned for these conventional signs , viz . secrecy ...
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... sect had ever in reserve to explain away their secret meanings . + When we say we can believe Dante to have been serious , and deliberately to have written the chapters alluded to , without the slightest consciousness of their inherent ...
... sect had ever in reserve to explain away their secret meanings . + When we say we can believe Dante to have been serious , and deliberately to have written the chapters alluded to , without the slightest consciousness of their inherent ...
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... sect , the me- taphorical meanings attached by him , in a sonnet , to the word heaven , and how he indulges his imagination in a laboured expo- sition of the resemblance of each of the seven heavens to some particular science . Now ...
... sect , the me- taphorical meanings attached by him , in a sonnet , to the word heaven , and how he indulges his imagination in a laboured expo- sition of the resemblance of each of the seven heavens to some particular science . Now ...
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Page 424 - Jerusalem : with his companion Gabriel, he successively ascended the seven heavens, and received and repaid the salutations of the patriarchs, the prophets, and the angels, in their respective mansions. Beyond the seventh heaven, Mahomet alone was permitted to proceed ; he passed the veil of unity, approached within two bow-shots of the throne, and felt a cold that pierced him to the heart, when his shoulder was touched by the hand of God.
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Page 310 - March, (22d) 1829, by mutual consent, between these same powers, on the basis of the said treaty, and containing the arrangement of detail, relative to its definitive execution. Immediately after the exchange of the ratification of the present treaty of peace, the Sublime Porte shall appoint plenipotentiaries to settle with those of the Imperial Court of Russia, and of the courts of England and France, the execution of the said stipulation, and arrangements.
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Page 437 - She who with seven heads tower'd at her birth, And from ten horns her proof of glory drew, Long as her spouse in virtue took delight. Of gold and silver ye have made your god, Differing wherein from the idolater, But that he worships one, a hundred ye?
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