The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 7J. Ridgeway and sons, 1838 - English periodicals |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 95
Page 9
... carried it from column to column in a covert way , under the concealment of a fictitious architrave . Everywhere , how- ever , they made each individual curve describe that complete semicircle , neither at its base elongated beyond ...
... carried it from column to column in a covert way , under the concealment of a fictitious architrave . Everywhere , how- ever , they made each individual curve describe that complete semicircle , neither at its base elongated beyond ...
Page 11
... carry any such , but of an architrave sup- ported by the wall itself , such projections or knobs as did not exceed their own diameter . The effect produced was that of a second capital mimicking the first ; confusing its form , and ...
... carry any such , but of an architrave sup- ported by the wall itself , such projections or knobs as did not exceed their own diameter . The effect produced was that of a second capital mimicking the first ; confusing its form , and ...
Page 15
... carried so far outside the immediate circumference of its base , and these supports thus receiving from it a pressure so oblique and distended , it showed , in less than twenty - five years after its completion , symptoms of approaching ...
... carried so far outside the immediate circumference of its base , and these supports thus receiving from it a pressure so oblique and distended , it showed , in less than twenty - five years after its completion , symptoms of approaching ...
Page 18
... carried from pillar to pillar , both in the " long and in the transverse direction , so as to form squares " of arched stone , filled in with rubble work ; within which " we observe , gradually appearing more and more , other ad ...
... carried from pillar to pillar , both in the " long and in the transverse direction , so as to form squares " of arched stone , filled in with rubble work ; within which " we observe , gradually appearing more and more , other ad ...
Page 20
... carried on ; regularly organised their dif . ferent departments ; fell to work ; sent for fresh supplies of their brethren , as the object demanded them ; shortened or prolonged the completion of the edifice as they liked , or were ...
... carried on ; regularly organised their dif . ferent departments ; fell to work ; sent for fresh supplies of their brethren , as the object demanded them ; shortened or prolonged the completion of the edifice as they liked , or were ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admitted appear archbishop Austria Belgian Belgium Bill Bulwer canal Caspian Sea Catholic character Chateaubriand church civilization colonies commerce common consequence court dapifer doctrine duty emperor empire England English equal established Europe execution existence fact father favour feelings foreign France Francia French Germany give Greek honour husband immoral important influence interest Judge Khiva king king of Prussia king's labour legislation less lord lord high steward lord steward marriage matter means ment mind minister moral mother nature navigation never object opinion Paraguay Parliament party passed Pelasgians person political pope possess present prince Metternich principle produce railway readers remarkable respect Roman roubles Russia seneschal separation Serjeant Talfourd society Sophocles Spain spirit steward Sultan things tion Transcaucasian provinces truth Turkey Turks VII.-Nº whole wife women words writer
Popular passages
Page 220 - His Britannic majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada, he will, consequently, give the most precise and most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion, according to the rites of the Romish Church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Page 202 - King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Page 194 - Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound...
Page 203 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Page 340 - For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God : but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman ; but the woman for the man.
Page 343 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives, while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Page 202 - God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better ordering and Preservation and Furtherance of the ends aforesaid; And by virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 202 - ... to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 342 - ... that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of GOD be not blasphemed.
Page 202 - If they looked behind them, there was the mighty ocean which they had passed and was now as a main bar and gulf to separate them from all the civil parts of the world.