The Modern British Essayists: Alison, Archibald. Miscellaneous essaysA. Hart, 1852 |
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... possession of the Holy Sepulchre . What the ultimate consequences of this universal and unparalleled break in religious instruction must be , it is not difficult to fore- tell . The restoration of the Christian worship by Napoleon , the ...
... possession of the Holy Sepulchre . What the ultimate consequences of this universal and unparalleled break in religious instruction must be , it is not difficult to fore- tell . The restoration of the Christian worship by Napoleon , the ...
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... possessed very much the extent and dominion of Russia in Europe in modern times . It stretched from the Baltic to the Euxine ; from Smolensko to Bohemia ; and embraced within its bosom the whole Scythia of antiquity - the storehouse of ...
... possessed very much the extent and dominion of Russia in Europe in modern times . It stretched from the Baltic to the Euxine ; from Smolensko to Bohemia ; and embraced within its bosom the whole Scythia of antiquity - the storehouse of ...
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... possessions arose ; but both , contrary to the genius of the people , perished before they arrived at maturity . The first was speedily overthrown ; in the convul- sion consequent upon the establishment of the last , the national ...
... possessions arose ; but both , contrary to the genius of the people , perished before they arrived at maturity . The first was speedily overthrown ; in the convul- sion consequent upon the establishment of the last , the national ...
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... possessed , we should agree with him in thinking , that the genius of the age should be directed to new combinations . But when this is not the case , we must be con- tent to proceed by slower degrees ; and while nineteen - twentieths ...
... possessed , we should agree with him in thinking , that the genius of the age should be directed to new combinations . But when this is not the case , we must be con- tent to proceed by slower degrees ; and while nineteen - twentieths ...
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... possession ; and the anec- dotes with which they are interspersed have plainly been collected with great pains from all the early friends of that illustrious warrior . If they are not published , therefore , under the sanction of ...
... possession ; and the anec- dotes with which they are interspersed have plainly been collected with great pains from all the early friends of that illustrious warrior . If they are not published , therefore , under the sanction of ...
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Seite 119 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him...
Seite 166 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Seite 371 - Their starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.
Seite 260 - Divinity, now discover in that personage only a newly-created despot without any of the accessories or advantages which give, even to despotism, some hold on public opinion. A reaction has accordingly taken place: and men are in consequence prepared to listen to things against which, previously, they, adderwise, closed their ears, and remained deaf to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
Seite 78 - 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.
Seite 369 - This gradual and continuous progress of the European race towards the Rocky Mountains has the solemnity of a providential event ; it is like a deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onward by the hand of God.
Seite 368 - The inhabitants of the United States are never fettered by the axioms of their profession; they escape from all the prejudices of their present station; they are not more attached to one line of operation than to another; they are not more prone to employ an old method than a new one; they have no rooted habits, and they easily shake off...
Seite 217 - Rome in the year 261, thirteen were now either destroyed, or were in the possession of the Opicans ; that on the Alban hills themselves Tusculum alone remained independent ; and that there was no other friendly city to obstruct the irruptions of the enemy into the territory of Rome. Accordingly, that territory was plundered year after year, and whatever defeats the plunderers may at times have sustained, yet they were never deterred from renewing a contest which they found in the main profitable...
Seite 27 - Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course, and own the hues of heaven ; Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
Seite 369 - Anglo-Americans at some future time, may be computed to equal three quarters of Europe in extent. The climate of the Union is upon the whole preferable to that of Europe, and its natural advantages are not less great ; it is therefore evident that its population will at some future time be proportionate to our own. Europe, divided as it is between so many different nations, and torn as it has been by incessant wars and the barbarous manners of the Middle Ages, has notwithstanding attained a population...