The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 7J. Ridgeway and sons, 1838 - English periodicals |
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... principle of construction , and an external corresponding feature , which caused a departure from the elementary model of the Greeks , in reality , in its essence more import- ant , more fundamental , than that which the style since ...
... principle of construction , and an external corresponding feature , which caused a departure from the elementary model of the Greeks , in reality , in its essence more import- ant , more fundamental , than that which the style since ...
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... principles of their predecessors . They again condescended to give to the cupolas they raised in air , a visible support on earth . They even superimposed upon the four fundamental pillars , above the point where they carried the weight ...
... principles of their predecessors . They again condescended to give to the cupolas they raised in air , a visible support on earth . They even superimposed upon the four fundamental pillars , above the point where they carried the weight ...
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... principle of the pointed style , even in its " soberest and most subdued shape , suggested the idea of still " increasing the surprise produced by these circumstances , by " doing away with every remains of solid wall that could be ...
... principle of the pointed style , even in its " soberest and most subdued shape , suggested the idea of still " increasing the surprise produced by these circumstances , by " doing away with every remains of solid wall that could be ...
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... principles of the fine arts to the operations of the mind , is the key - note to whatever has been since written upon the intellectual cultivation of Greece . With almost the precision of science , and upon the firmest philosophical ...
... principles of the fine arts to the operations of the mind , is the key - note to whatever has been since written upon the intellectual cultivation of Greece . With almost the precision of science , and upon the firmest philosophical ...
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... principle of Nature ? Such creations could not fail of becoming stiff or extravagant , deformed or grotesque . But to the Greek , a god was something like the most majestic or the most beautiful of his own species . He studied the human ...
... principle of Nature ? Such creations could not fail of becoming stiff or extravagant , deformed or grotesque . But to the Greek , a god was something like the most majestic or the most beautiful of his own species . He studied the human ...
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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.