Library Magazine of American and Foreign ThoughtJ. B. Alden, 1888 |
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... death , each and all of these may be pronounced to be fetish - somebody has done it , and he must be detected . So possessed are the natives by this belief , it so forms part of their being , that it never occurs to any one of them ...
... death , each and all of these may be pronounced to be fetish - somebody has done it , and he must be detected . So possessed are the natives by this belief , it so forms part of their being , that it never occurs to any one of them ...
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... death ; a brother will help to tear in pieces a brother . If the accused dares to deny the charge - which he seldom does , however preposterous or impossible it may be he has to sub- mit to some terrible ordeal , such as the running at ...
... death ; a brother will help to tear in pieces a brother . If the accused dares to deny the charge - which he seldom does , however preposterous or impossible it may be he has to sub- mit to some terrible ordeal , such as the running at ...
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... death a man for doing that of which he knew him to be innocent ; nor did he dare to acquit him of having done what he had himself confessed , and what his neighbors were now more than ever convinced he had often done before . He ...
... death a man for doing that of which he knew him to be innocent ; nor did he dare to acquit him of having done what he had himself confessed , and what his neighbors were now more than ever convinced he had often done before . He ...
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... with every circum- stance of atrocity , and carried them off to a living death in the new world . The horrors of the middle passage and of the cotton plan- tation may well be set against those of the inland 44 THE LIBRARY MAGAZINE .
... with every circum- stance of atrocity , and carried them off to a living death in the new world . The horrors of the middle passage and of the cotton plan- tation may well be set against those of the inland 44 THE LIBRARY MAGAZINE .
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... death . If it does not destroy life at once , at least , like opium- eating , it slowly saps all the vital forces . The nobler beasts of burden themselves sicken and die in this pestilential atmosphere . No amount of care enables them ...
... death . If it does not destroy life at once , at least , like opium- eating , it slowly saps all the vital forces . The nobler beasts of burden themselves sicken and die in this pestilential atmosphere . No amount of care enables them ...
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Africa appears Austria become believe Bhagirathi Bible Blind Harry Buddhist called century character Christian Church commercial Constitution Corsica course cremation death Divine doctrine Dowden duty England English ethical European evidence existence fact faith father feeling follow France French Gaonim Germany give Government hand Harriet Hebrew Hugli human idea igloo India interest Islam Italy Karaism Karaites Kethib knowledge language less letter literary literature living Locrine Lord marriage matter means ment mind Mohammedan mollusk moral mucilage Muslim nations nature Negro never oyster persons philosopher poem poetry practical present principles Professor Dowden question race reason regard religion river Russia schools scientific sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's society soul spirit Talmud teaching things thought tion true truth whole words write Wronsky
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Seite 394 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Seite 205 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Seite 55 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Seite 455 - With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I never be...
Seite 392 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Seite 527 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Seite 461 - A little further, to make thee a room : Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give. That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses, I mean with great, but...
Seite 524 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Seite 122 - I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts on a wholesale scale, more especially with respect to domesticated productions, by printed inquiries, by conversation with skilful breeders and gardeners, and by extensive reading.
Seite 50 - Say there is one God alone — God the eternal ; He begetteth not and He is not begotten, And there is none like unto him.