The Quarterly Review, Volume 213William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1910 - English literature |
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... lower layer divide , each into two , which gradually grow to the full size ... house the walls of which are built of living bricks , which grow in such a ... house , occupying it with a con- stantly increasing mass of irregular brickwork ...
... lower layer divide , each into two , which gradually grow to the full size ... house the walls of which are built of living bricks , which grow in such a ... house , occupying it with a con- stantly increasing mass of irregular brickwork ...
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... House of Commons . The plain man is haunted by a well - founded suspicion that party profit too easily takes precedence over national welfare , and that the weak- nesses of the Lower House if unrestrained may subject the Empire to grave ...
... House of Commons . The plain man is haunted by a well - founded suspicion that party profit too easily takes precedence over national welfare , and that the weak- nesses of the Lower House if unrestrained may subject the Empire to grave ...
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... Chamber , but the existence of a strong Opposition in the Lower House ready at any time to carry on the government of the country . By insisting on a Second Chamber you are merely placing in the hands of all the obscurantist and selfish ...
... Chamber , but the existence of a strong Opposition in the Lower House ready at any time to carry on the government of the country . By insisting on a Second Chamber you are merely placing in the hands of all the obscurantist and selfish ...
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... House of Lords and the substitution therefor of a popular chamber with unde- fined powers , which ' substitution ... Lower House . Finally Parliaments are to be re- stricted in duration to five years . Few competent judges will be found ...
... House of Lords and the substitution therefor of a popular chamber with unde- fined powers , which ' substitution ... Lower House . Finally Parliaments are to be re- stricted in duration to five years . Few competent judges will be found ...
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... House of Lords as it is . The British Constitution is to be permanently wrecked to meet a temporary difficulty . For ... Lower . It has decided that it is better to have no deadlocks at all , and that an effective though novel way of securing ...
... House of Lords as it is . The British Constitution is to be permanently wrecked to meet a temporary difficulty . For ... Lower . It has decided that it is better to have no deadlocks at all , and that an effective though novel way of securing ...
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Page 231 - Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Page 80 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped: then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 87 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 418 - Beauty — a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.
Page 85 - The Lady of Shalott. Heard a carol, mournful, holy, Chanted loudly, chanted lowly, Till her blood was frozen slowly, And her eyes were darken'd wholly, Turn'd to tower'd Camelot; For ere she reach'd upon the tide The first house by the water-side, Singing in her song she died, The Lady of Shalott.
Page 84 - Brimming, and bright, and large ; then sands begin To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, And split his currents; that for many a league The shorn and...
Page 36 - Ride your ways,' said the gipsy, ' ride your ways, Laird of Ellangowan — ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram ! — This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths — see if the fire in your ain parlour burn the blither for that. Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses — look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster.
Page 40 - I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid, and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their father ! — And now, ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan.
Page 272 - Were I but capable of interpreting to the world one half the great thoughts and noble feelings which are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greater benefit to it, than is ever likely to arise from anything that I can write, unprompted and unassisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom.
Page 286 - When this pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest moral reformer and martyr to that mission who ever existed upon earth, religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity...