The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1Houlston and Stonemen, 1864 |
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... force , attractiveness to good sense , interest to solid thought , and fits skill to achieve pleasantly what it has prepared to accomplish by dint of persistent and operose endeavour . To think decidedly and to speak clearly ; to know ...
... force , attractiveness to good sense , interest to solid thought , and fits skill to achieve pleasantly what it has prepared to accomplish by dint of persistent and operose endeavour . To think decidedly and to speak clearly ; to know ...
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... force of law must , of course , be fixed in accordance with the usual forms of legislation , be promulgated in a fair and open manner , be ex- pressed in an explicit style , and have a clearly defined purpose . If they are enforceable ...
... force of law must , of course , be fixed in accordance with the usual forms of legislation , be promulgated in a fair and open manner , be ex- pressed in an explicit style , and have a clearly defined purpose . If they are enforceable ...
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... forces and freight to the required points . The living energy of thinking is constrained , and the pressure of an outward and imposed influence affects its activity , and modifies its direct , forthworking impartiality , as well as its ...
... forces and freight to the required points . The living energy of thinking is constrained , and the pressure of an outward and imposed influence affects its activity , and modifies its direct , forthworking impartiality , as well as its ...
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... force and splendour of his wit and genius , but that I can dare venture to say that even our great bard is a dangerous author to read , and many of his plays not fit to be exhibited as he wrote them . " All the evils here alluded to ...
... force and splendour of his wit and genius , but that I can dare venture to say that even our great bard is a dangerous author to read , and many of his plays not fit to be exhibited as he wrote them . " All the evils here alluded to ...
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... force unwilling awe . Hence all obedience bows to these alone , And talent sinks , and merit weeps unknown ... forces for evil . Sin and crime cannot enter into huge and complicated leagues . The vices of great cities , the crimes of ...
... force unwilling awe . Hence all obedience bows to these alone , And talent sinks , and merit weeps unknown ... forces for evil . Sin and crime cannot enter into huge and complicated leagues . The vices of great cities , the crimes of ...
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Page 213 - How sweet his music! on my life There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
Page 54 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 341 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come ; that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Page 346 - Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length, and depth and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Page 16 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 221 - Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill...
Page 215 - It is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before. The red-breast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare, And grass in the green field.
Page 219 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
Page 14 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 342 - Israel, if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole, be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.