The Edinburgh Review, Volume 131A. and C. Black, 1870 - English literature |
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... doubt Mr. Froude has caught in a very high degree the spirit of the present age . He presents the narrative of these events in a form pre - eminently calcu- lated to excite interest , to rouse sympathy , and to revive the passions of ...
... doubt Mr. Froude has caught in a very high degree the spirit of the present age . He presents the narrative of these events in a form pre - eminently calcu- lated to excite interest , to rouse sympathy , and to revive the passions of ...
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... doubt the danger of Elizabeth was extreme , and the ruffians and fanatics who had contrived the plot richly deserved the fate which overtook them . But the principal interest of the Babington conspiracy lies in the fact that it cost ...
... doubt the danger of Elizabeth was extreme , and the ruffians and fanatics who had contrived the plot richly deserved the fate which overtook them . But the principal interest of the Babington conspiracy lies in the fact that it cost ...
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acted no doubt from patriotism and loyalty to his sovereign . But high motives sometimes render men only the more in- sensible to the wickedness and infamy of the means they em- ploy . That was the accursed doctrine of the Jesuits ...
acted no doubt from patriotism and loyalty to his sovereign . But high motives sometimes render men only the more in- sensible to the wickedness and infamy of the means they em- ploy . That was the accursed doctrine of the Jesuits ...
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... doubt attached to their authenticity is still the great argument used by Mary's defenders . This argument has been revived with considerable ability by Mr. Hosack in a volume lately published under the title ' Mary , ' Queen of Scots ...
... doubt attached to their authenticity is still the great argument used by Mary's defenders . This argument has been revived with considerable ability by Mr. Hosack in a volume lately published under the title ' Mary , ' Queen of Scots ...
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to doubt that Walsingham's deliberate intention was not only to save Elizabeth , but to render the destruction of Mary inevitable ; and though he had the sanction of his own sove- reign for what he did , perhaps she did not foresee as ...
to doubt that Walsingham's deliberate intention was not only to save Elizabeth , but to render the destruction of Mary inevitable ; and though he had the sanction of his own sove- reign for what he did , perhaps she did not foresee as ...
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Page 510 - To her that is the fairest under heaven, 1 seem as nothing in the mighty world, And cannot will my will, nor work my work Wholly, nor make myself in mine own realm Victor and lord. But were I join'd with her, Then might we live together as one life, And reigning with one will in everything Have power on this dark land to lighten it, And power on this dead world to make it live.
Page 510 - I made them lay their hands in mine, and swear To reverence the King as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ...
Page 485 - Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2.
Page 523 - Joseph, journeying brought To Glastonbury, where the winter thorn Blossoms at Christmas, mindful of our Lord. And there awhile it bode; and if a man Could touch or see it, he was heal'd at once, By faith, of all his ills. But then the times Grew to such evil that the holy cup Was caught away to Heaven, and disappear'd.
Page 530 - Not easily, seeing that the King must guard That which he rules, and is but as the hind To whom a space of land is given to plow. Who may not wander from the allotted field Before his work be done...
Page 107 - If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the expense of defending those provinces in time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or : military establishments in time of peace, and ,' endeavour to accommodate her future views/ and designs to the real mediocrity of her circumstances.
Page 194 - Memoir of Sir William Hamilton, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. By Professor VEITCH of the University of Glasgow. 8vo, with Portrait, 18s.
Page 530 - Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will ; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But vision — yea, his very hand and foot — In moments when he feels he cannot die, And knows himself no vision to himself, -Nor the high God a vision, nor that One Who rose again : ye have seen what ye have seen.
Page 524 - Stream'd thro' my cell a cold and silver beam, And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail, Rose-red with beatings in it, as if alive, Till all the white walls of my cell were dyed With rosy...
Page 125 - Calvin was born at Noyon, in Picardy, on the 10th of July, 1509. He was only eight years old when Luther posted his theses.