Miscellaneous EssaysD. Appleton, 1860 - 390 páginas |
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... spirit ; blending all that was noble in the ardour of the Crusades , with all that is generous in the enthusiasm of freedom . | Of such men France and England may well be proud. It is the glory of the Conservative Party throughout the ...
... spirit ; blending all that was noble in the ardour of the Crusades , with all that is generous in the enthusiasm of freedom . | Of such men France and England may well be proud. It is the glory of the Conservative Party throughout the ...
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... spirit of the gospel , banished produce a greater effect than volumes of during the sunshine of corrupt prosperity , re- turn to the repentant human heart with the tears and the storms of adversity . reasoning or metaphysics ? Persuade ...
... spirit of the gospel , banished produce a greater effect than volumes of during the sunshine of corrupt prosperity , re- turn to the repentant human heart with the tears and the storms of adversity . reasoning or metaphysics ? Persuade ...
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... spirit of the design . remove . They have addressed themselves in general to them as if they were combatants drawn out in a theological dispute ; they have urged a mass of arguments which they were unable to refute , but which were too ...
... spirit of the design . remove . They have addressed themselves in general to them as if they were combatants drawn out in a theological dispute ; they have urged a mass of arguments which they were unable to refute , but which were too ...
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... Spirit is the father of the world ; in Greenland , man has emerged from an egg ; in fine , Scandinavia has beheld the birth of Askur and Emla ; Odin has poured in the breath of life , Honerus reason , and Loedur blood and beauty ...
... Spirit is the father of the world ; in Greenland , man has emerged from an egg ; in fine , Scandinavia has beheld the birth of Askur and Emla ; Odin has poured in the breath of life , Honerus reason , and Loedur blood and beauty ...
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... spirit of Christianity ? Gray thought otherwise , when he wrote the sublime lines on visiting the Grande Char- treuse . Buchanan thought otherwise , when , in his exquisite Ode to May , he supposed the first zephyrs of spring to blow ...
... spirit of Christianity ? Gray thought otherwise , when he wrote the sublime lines on visiting the Grande Char- treuse . Buchanan thought otherwise , when , in his exquisite Ode to May , he supposed the first zephyrs of spring to blow ...
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Página 386 - PER me si va nella città dolente, Per me si va nell' eterno dolore, Per me si va tra la perduta gente. Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore : Fecemi la divina potestate, La somma sapienza e il primo amore. Dinanzi a me non fur cose create, Se non eterne, ed io eterno duro : Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch...
Página 255 - ... regulations and ordinances necessary for the execution of the laws and the safety of the State.
Página 160 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Página 386 - Con lieto volto, ond' io mi confortai, Mi mise dentro alle segrete cose. Quivi sospiri, pianti ed alti guai Risonavan per l'aer senza stelle, Perch' io al cominciar ne lagrimai. Diverse lingue, orribili favelle, Parole di dolore, accenti d'ira, Voci alte e fioche, e suon di man con elle, Facevano un tumulto, il qual s' aggira Sempre in quell' aria senza tempo tinta, Come la rena quando a turbo spira.
Página 254 - But although, from the very first, we clearly discerned and forcibly pointed out the disastrous effects on the freedom, peace, and tranquillity, first of France, and then of the...
Página 71 - The sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge of the level ocean, and gilded the accumulation of towering clouds through which he had travelled the livelong day, and which now assembled on all sides, like misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire and falling monarch.
Página 72 - Still, however, his dying splendor gave a sombre magnificence to the massive congregation of vapors, forming out of their unsubstantial gloom the show of pyramids and towers, some touched with gold, some with purple, some with a hue of deep and dark red. The distant sea, stretched beneath this varied and gorgeous canopy, lay almost portentously still, reflecting back the dazzling and level beams of the descending luminary, and the splendid coloring of the clouds amidst which he was setting.
Página 13 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Página 161 - The world was sad ; the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled...
Página 161 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a