Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 5John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1845 |
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... political principles , derived from a pro- THERE is no question invested at the found study of history , and the most exten- present moment with greater interest , than sive practical knowledge of mankind , they that of the Right of ...
... political principles , derived from a pro- THERE is no question invested at the found study of history , and the most exten- present moment with greater interest , than sive practical knowledge of mankind , they that of the Right of ...
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... political of the age . His views are the views of his creed susceptible of a double interpretation , contemporaries . His system , if he can be the one popular , the other anti - popular , ac- said to have one , is of the composite ...
... political of the age . His views are the views of his creed susceptible of a double interpretation , contemporaries . His system , if he can be the one popular , the other anti - popular , ac- said to have one , is of the composite ...
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... political in- Jesuitism . For if on the other side of the stincts may be supposed to have been channel it has curtailed his influence , and brought into subjection to his reason ; exposed him to obloquy , it has produced when it was no ...
... political in- Jesuitism . For if on the other side of the stincts may be supposed to have been channel it has curtailed his influence , and brought into subjection to his reason ; exposed him to obloquy , it has produced when it was no ...
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... political homily , he forth- They can negotiate nothing , they can sign with returned home , and forwarded a des- nothing , unless at their own proper peril . patch to his government . This document Now , Baron Bulow , the Prussian ...
... political homily , he forth- They can negotiate nothing , they can sign with returned home , and forwarded a des- nothing , unless at their own proper peril . patch to his government . This document Now , Baron Bulow , the Prussian ...
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... political world as an ardent abolitionist , ers ? No less than the interests of two and , as such , would undoubtedly have been great divisions of the earth . For if Africa lynched by General Cass , had he caught be depopulated by the ...
... political world as an ardent abolitionist , ers ? No less than the interests of two and , as such , would undoubtedly have been great divisions of the earth . For if Africa lynched by General Cass , had he caught be depopulated by the ...
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Page 525 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 281 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 281 - O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see, The fancy outwork nature; on each side her, Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With diverse-color'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 333 - This is a misery much to be lamented, for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, — but were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light, as that which they first received.
Page 333 - His, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry ; for I am verily persuaded the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of His holy Word. " For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the Reformed Churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go at present no further than the instruments of their reformation.
Page 171 - And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. 17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Page 127 - Winds thwarting winds bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the way-side As if a voice were in them, the sick sight And giddy prospect of the raving stream, The unfettered clouds and region of the heavens, Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light, Were all like workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree, Characters of the great Apocalypse, The types...
Page 281 - The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which "they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
Page 509 - There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature. POL. Say there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Page 333 - Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.