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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... true . Half the population of Paris , he asserts , drink under the name of wine a mixture that does not contain one drop of the juice of the grape . ‡ But what are the prospects of a regular supply , and what are the prices for which ...
... true . Half the population of Paris , he asserts , drink under the name of wine a mixture that does not contain one drop of the juice of the grape . ‡ But what are the prospects of a regular supply , and what are the prices for which ...
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... true interests ? The National Debt of Austria is about two hundred and fifty millions sterling , which cannot be considered large for a country of such great resources . Austria like other states when in finan- cial difficulties has ...
... true interests ? The National Debt of Austria is about two hundred and fifty millions sterling , which cannot be considered large for a country of such great resources . Austria like other states when in finan- cial difficulties has ...
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... true , more especially to its zoology and geology , although much yet remains to be done for the botany of the Holy Land . ' It is perfectly amazing , ' a recent traveller in Palestine once remarked to the writer of this article , ' how ...
... true , more especially to its zoology and geology , although much yet remains to be done for the botany of the Holy Land . ' It is perfectly amazing , ' a recent traveller in Palestine once remarked to the writer of this article , ' how ...
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... true that it is looked upon with suspicion and forebodings of evil consequences by many persons , but this fact should rather increase our desire for fuller investigation . We look with no degree of anxious sus- picion upon attempts to ...
... true that it is looked upon with suspicion and forebodings of evil consequences by many persons , but this fact should rather increase our desire for fuller investigation . We look with no degree of anxious sus- picion upon attempts to ...
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... true , as this eminent writer maintains , that Isaiah ( xxvii . 1 ) calls " leviathan the piercing serpent , " and " that crooked ser- pent where it is probable that it corresponds to the aphophis , or great serpent of Egypt ; but this ...
... true , as this eminent writer maintains , that Isaiah ( xxvii . 1 ) calls " leviathan the piercing serpent , " and " that crooked ser- pent where it is probable that it corresponds to the aphophis , or great serpent of Egypt ; but this ...
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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!