The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 7J. Ridgeway and sons, 1838 - English periodicals |
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... principle of construction , and an external corresponding feature , which caused a departure from the elementary model of the Greeks , in reality , in its essence more import- ant , more fundamental , than that which the style since ...
... principle of construction , and an external corresponding feature , which caused a departure from the elementary model of the Greeks , in reality , in its essence more import- ant , more fundamental , than that which the style since ...
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... principle of the pointed style , even in its " soberest and most subdued shape , suggested the idea of still " increasing the surprise produced by these circumstances , by " doing away with every remains of solid wall that could be ...
... principle of the pointed style , even in its " soberest and most subdued shape , suggested the idea of still " increasing the surprise produced by these circumstances , by " doing away with every remains of solid wall that could be ...
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... principle of Nature ? Such creations could not fail of becoming stiff or extravagant , deformed or grotesque . But to the Greek , a god was something like the most majestic or the most beautiful of his own species . He studied the human ...
... principle of Nature ? Such creations could not fail of becoming stiff or extravagant , deformed or grotesque . But to the Greek , a god was something like the most majestic or the most beautiful of his own species . He studied the human ...
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... principle was ascendant ; while that of aristocracy , remaining improgressive , waned after a few Olympiads were past , until the conspiracy of Cinadon showed upon how hol- low a base rested the constitution of Sparta , how empty it was ...
... principle was ascendant ; while that of aristocracy , remaining improgressive , waned after a few Olympiads were past , until the conspiracy of Cinadon showed upon how hol- low a base rested the constitution of Sparta , how empty it was ...
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... principles which every nation may be said to nurse within itself ; viz . the principle to change , and the principle to preserve ; the principle to popularize , and the principle to limit the governing power : here the genius of an ...
... principles which every nation may be said to nurse within itself ; viz . the principle to change , and the principle to preserve ; the principle to popularize , and the principle to limit the governing power : here the genius of an ...
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Page 196 - His Britannic majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada, he will, consequently, give the most precise and most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion, according to the rites of the Romish Church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Page 178 - King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Page 179 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Page 364 - ... and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing ; and every word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male.
Page 316 - For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God : but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman ; but the woman for the man.
Page 319 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives, while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Page 175 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 317 - Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Page 178 - God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better ordering and Preservation and Furtherance of the ends aforesaid; And by virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 196 - Majesty, in full right, Canada, with all its dependencies, as well as the Island of Cape Breton, and all the other islands and coasts in the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence...