The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 7J. Ridgeway and sons, 1838 - English periodicals |
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... considerable oblique pressure , was an indispensable requisite for the continuous vault , and naturally became an object of greater consequence and attention than columns . These , in- deed , needed only to adorn its nakedness , placed ...
... considerable oblique pressure , was an indispensable requisite for the continuous vault , and naturally became an object of greater consequence and attention than columns . These , in- deed , needed only to adorn its nakedness , placed ...
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... considerable height above the mass of the building , and belong , therefore , more to the in- ternal effect , with which , be it observed , the spire of the pointed style has no connection at all . 66 " Just , however , at the period ...
... considerable height above the mass of the building , and belong , therefore , more to the in- ternal effect , with which , be it observed , the spire of the pointed style has no connection at all . 66 " Just , however , at the period ...
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... considerable thickness , only re- quired buttresses so shallow , that whatever masses appear in that shape , seem rather to be mere ornaments , and intended to break the even sur- face of the wall , than as stays of use or necessity ...
... considerable thickness , only re- quired buttresses so shallow , that whatever masses appear in that shape , seem rather to be mere ornaments , and intended to break the even sur- face of the wall , than as stays of use or necessity ...
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... to give him credit for considerable powers of mind and observation , and for no common resources and energy , 36 The Rise and Fall of Athens . —Athens; its Rise and Fall By EDWARD LYTTON BULWER, ESQ , M P 2 vols 8vo London,
... to give him credit for considerable powers of mind and observation , and for no common resources and energy , 36 The Rise and Fall of Athens . —Athens; its Rise and Fall By EDWARD LYTTON BULWER, ESQ , M P 2 vols 8vo London,
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... considerable animation , and with some paradox ; but he has not been alto- gether happy in catching the even and dignified tone of hi- story . That , at the first , he did not set clearly before him- self the proper objects of his work ...
... considerable animation , and with some paradox ; but he has not been alto- gether happy in catching the even and dignified tone of hi- story . That , at the first , he did not set clearly before him- self the proper objects of his work ...
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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.