The Quarterly Review, Volume 114William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1863 - English literature |
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Page 48
... seems satisfied it is the lily of the field ' referred to by our Lord , and speaks in raptures of the beauty of the flower , but gives so vague a description as to defy any attempt to divine what is the plant he is talking about . The ...
... seems satisfied it is the lily of the field ' referred to by our Lord , and speaks in raptures of the beauty of the flower , but gives so vague a description as to defy any attempt to divine what is the plant he is talking about . The ...
Page 94
... seem to depend on local conditions . Whatever may be the physical cause of this peculiar structure , there seems to be no doubt of its being , in many cases , gradually developed during the transmutation of the névé into compact ice ...
... seem to depend on local conditions . Whatever may be the physical cause of this peculiar structure , there seems to be no doubt of its being , in many cases , gradually developed during the transmutation of the névé into compact ice ...
Page 97
... seems also to have observed , † and which he appears to refer , as we think , to their right mechanical cause - a periodical augmenta- tion of the enormous pressure à tergo arising from the more rapid flow of the ice down the fall when ...
... seems also to have observed , † and which he appears to refer , as we think , to their right mechanical cause - a periodical augmenta- tion of the enormous pressure à tergo arising from the more rapid flow of the ice down the fall when ...
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... seem to us to be associated - partly , per- haps , as a cause , and partly as an effect - with the fact that few persons ... seems to have made any material addition to it nor to have removed the difficulties which it appeared to involve ...
... seem to us to be associated - partly , per- haps , as a cause , and partly as an effect - with the fact that few persons ... seems to have made any material addition to it nor to have removed the difficulties which it appeared to involve ...
Page 106
... seems , for an inclination of not more than half a degree , and would doubtless have been so , especially with an increase of the weight , for still smaller inclinations . The motion was due to the melting of the ice im- mediately in ...
... seems , for an inclination of not more than half a degree , and would doubtless have been so , especially with an increase of the weight , for still smaller inclinations . The motion was due to the melting of the ice im- mediately in ...
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Page 184 - his own bitterness ; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Page 59 - And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Page 56 - Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
Page 225 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.
Page 231 - And here I prophesy ; — This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 46 - Skiff. Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell, With fixed Anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the Lee, while Night Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delays...
Page 205 - That the dead are seen no more, said Imlac, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which...
Page 70 - And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 66 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 343 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!