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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... doubt on the exquisite per- fection of their characters ; while every palliation which the most excessive charity can admit , every point which can turn to the praise of Mary the First , is paraded with anxious fidelity . Com- pare the ...
... doubt on the exquisite per- fection of their characters ; while every palliation which the most excessive charity can admit , every point which can turn to the praise of Mary the First , is paraded with anxious fidelity . Com- pare the ...
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... lordship is aware , we doubt not , that this notable argument is in constant use by the writers of Mr. Baddely's stamp . A 4 English English Protestant literature , as actually to mistake Burnet's History The Reformation in England .
... lordship is aware , we doubt not , that this notable argument is in constant use by the writers of Mr. Baddely's stamp . A 4 English English Protestant literature , as actually to mistake Burnet's History The Reformation in England .
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... doubt for an instant that the Pope's decision was at the service of that party from which he pro- mised himself the greatest advantage . Be thou well assured , ' says Bonner , in his preface to Gardiner's Book , De verâ Obedientiâ , the ...
... doubt for an instant that the Pope's decision was at the service of that party from which he pro- mised himself the greatest advantage . Be thou well assured , ' says Bonner , in his preface to Gardiner's Book , De verâ Obedientiâ , the ...
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... doubt , would serve his purpose , and be received without too close an examination into its truth and certainty . But Sir Thomas Boleyn's character stood high , as an honourable and religious man . He is highly praised by Erasmus , and ...
... doubt , would serve his purpose , and be received without too close an examination into its truth and certainty . But Sir Thomas Boleyn's character stood high , as an honourable and religious man . He is highly praised by Erasmus , and ...
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... doubt , that the pupils in these colleges were nurtured in principles dangerous to every government ; principles which Mr. Butler himself marks with the strongest reprehension . But we have still more important contemporary testimony ...
... doubt , that the pupils in these colleges were nurtured in principles dangerous to every government ; principles which Mr. Butler himself marks with the strongest reprehension . But we have still more important contemporary testimony ...
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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.