The Quarterly Review, Volume 33William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1826 - English literature |
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... carried this point , of wresting from the Pope his dispensing power , they shook the foundations of his despotism to its base . With respect to the marriage itself they were not originally parties in the contest ; nor was the question ...
... carried this point , of wresting from the Pope his dispensing power , they shook the foundations of his despotism to its base . With respect to the marriage itself they were not originally parties in the contest ; nor was the question ...
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... carried , the supremacy of the king and the dissolution of the monasteries . With regard to the first , it is remarkable with what unanimity it passed ; few refused to sub- scribe ; it is even questionable whether Pole himself was not ...
... carried , the supremacy of the king and the dissolution of the monasteries . With regard to the first , it is remarkable with what unanimity it passed ; few refused to sub- scribe ; it is even questionable whether Pole himself was not ...
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... carried even higher than his com- putation by the indefatigable and accurate Strype . Dr. Lingard states the number of sufferers at almost 200 , after all allowances made . ' Strype's account gives 288 actually executed , besides those ...
... carried even higher than his com- putation by the indefatigable and accurate Strype . Dr. Lingard states the number of sufferers at almost 200 , after all allowances made . ' Strype's account gives 288 actually executed , besides those ...
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... carried to the place of execution . We went to witness the affecting scene . On our arrival there , we heard the report of a gun , and looking about , we saw a man tied to a tree , and six others sitting on the ground with their hands ...
... carried to the place of execution . We went to witness the affecting scene . On our arrival there , we heard the report of a gun , and looking about , we saw a man tied to a tree , and six others sitting on the ground with their hands ...
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... carry to the Emperor - for the Golden Face , like all his brother monarchs of the East , is quite unapproachable with- out a present . After some time , however , they agreed that it ought to be something congruous with their character ...
... carry to the Emperor - for the Golden Face , like all his brother monarchs of the East , is quite unapproachable with- out a present . After some time , however , they agreed that it ought to be something congruous with their character ...
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Page 92 - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost ; and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood ; and these three agree in one.
Page 272 - Sweet Queen of Parley, Daughter of the Sphere! So may'st thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies!
Page 169 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 438 - ... grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about, as a manifestation of his wicked life, and due punishment received for the same.
Page 359 - In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.
Page 279 - COL. HAWKER'S INSTRUCTIONS to YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Page 506 - The Parliament of Great Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities. One as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power. The other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character ; in which, as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all without annihilating any.
Page 290 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth...
Page 309 - Home from my office to my Lord's lodgings where my wife had got ready a very fine dinner — viz. a dish of marrow bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal; a dish of fowl, three pullets, and a dozen of larks all in a dish; a great tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns and cheese.
Page 292 - Garden. And in the Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them.