Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Band 41John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1857 |
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... original invention , fruitful in great things , in great men , and in courageous efforts for the freedom and progress of mankind : they fought out stoutly , and in spite of many obstacles , some of the great problems of humanity ; in ...
... original invention , fruitful in great things , in great men , and in courageous efforts for the freedom and progress of mankind : they fought out stoutly , and in spite of many obstacles , some of the great problems of humanity ; in ...
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... original energy and activity in the religious life of the soul , and therefore imparts to it the use and the desire of freedom . Throughout the continual wars and fierce persecutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the slow ...
... original energy and activity in the religious life of the soul , and therefore imparts to it the use and the desire of freedom . Throughout the continual wars and fierce persecutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the slow ...
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... original authorities . The day on which he first opens the Rolls of Parliament or Rymer's Foedera is a greater epoch in a student's career than that on which he hears the ablest lecture that was ever delivered . There is , of course , a ...
... original authorities . The day on which he first opens the Rolls of Parliament or Rymer's Foedera is a greater epoch in a student's career than that on which he hears the ablest lecture that was ever delivered . There is , of course , a ...
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... original French ; but there is one excep- tion , and it happens that the letter is more than usually interesting , not only because it is characteristic of the writer , but because it gives a glimpse at the great barbarian who was then ...
... original French ; but there is one excep- tion , and it happens that the letter is more than usually interesting , not only because it is characteristic of the writer , but because it gives a glimpse at the great barbarian who was then ...
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... original impulse toward wrong ; and to that temper the Greek drama adapts its monitory legends . The doctrine of the Hebrew Scriptures as to vicarious retri- bution is at times discovered secretly moving through the scenic poetry of ...
... original impulse toward wrong ; and to that temper the Greek drama adapts its monitory legends . The doctrine of the Hebrew Scriptures as to vicarious retri- bution is at times discovered secretly moving through the scenic poetry of ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 237 - ... and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Seite 419 - Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar : and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips ; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Seite 105 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Seite 98 - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Seite 337 - When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Seite 105 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Seite 106 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Seite 108 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Seite 27 - ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair; And a voice said in mastery, while I strove, — 'Guess now who holds thee?' - 'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, — 'Not Death, but Love.
Seite 528 - COLD in the earth, and the deep snow piled above thee ; Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave ! Have I forgot, my only love, to love thee, Severed at last by time's all-severing wave ? Now, when alone, do my thoughts no longer hover Over the mountains, on that northern shore, Resting their wings where heath and fern-leaves cover Thy noble heart for ever, ever more ? Cold in the earth, and fifteen wild Decembers From those brown hills have melted into spring ; Faithful indeed is the spirit that...