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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... existence of a College famous from its first foundation for the introduction of elegant literature into Oxford , small indeed in the number of its members , but not excelled by any House in any University for the wisdom and liberality ...
... existence of a College famous from its first foundation for the introduction of elegant literature into Oxford , small indeed in the number of its members , but not excelled by any House in any University for the wisdom and liberality ...
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... existence of any treaty , because no formal record remains of the secret articles agreed on by two of the most crafty politicians of that or any other age . In 1569 , the rebellion of Northumberland took place ; the re - esta- blishment ...
... existence of any treaty , because no formal record remains of the secret articles agreed on by two of the most crafty politicians of that or any other age . In 1569 , the rebellion of Northumberland took place ; the re - esta- blishment ...
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... existence , supposed to be formed in all English houses on the continent . Persons , in the meanwhile , and Bris- tow and Stapleton , and Dr. Allen , ( with all his virtues , too much attached to the interests and prerogatives of Rome ...
... existence , supposed to be formed in all English houses on the continent . Persons , in the meanwhile , and Bris- tow and Stapleton , and Dr. Allen , ( with all his virtues , too much attached to the interests and prerogatives of Rome ...
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... existence of which the Reformation is reproached , at last made itself distinctly heard , and its authority was recog nized by all . The knowledge of the Scriptures and the progress of intellect were undoubtedly simultaneous , but the ...
... existence of which the Reformation is reproached , at last made itself distinctly heard , and its authority was recog nized by all . The knowledge of the Scriptures and the progress of intellect were undoubtedly simultaneous , but the ...
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... existence of their order in the East . We have better hope from the church establishment in India , tardy as its appointment has been , and inadequate as is its present scale , than from all the missions that have hitherto been sent to ...
... existence of their order in the East . We have better hope from the church establishment in India , tardy as its appointment has been , and inadequate as is its present scale , than from all the missions that have hitherto been sent to ...
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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.