The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 154A. Constable, 1881 |
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... received are examined , while pastoral addresses to various foreign conferences are read , and priestly benedictions roll over the chinking of the coins on the money - changers ' tables . A Church congress talks in hopes that some ...
... received are examined , while pastoral addresses to various foreign conferences are read , and priestly benedictions roll over the chinking of the coins on the money - changers ' tables . A Church congress talks in hopes that some ...
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... receiving an unsatisfactory answer to such queries shows that the information was withheld not from want of knowledge ... received these pro- mises affably , exhorted the envoys to abide by them , and then sent them home again , and with ...
... receiving an unsatisfactory answer to such queries shows that the information was withheld not from want of knowledge ... received these pro- mises affably , exhorted the envoys to abide by them , and then sent them home again , and with ...
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... received a letter from Cæsar himself , dated the first of the same month , and which he says reported matters in Britain as going on satisfactorily . We have described Cæsar's crossing the Thames and subsequent advance . Meanwhile the ...
... received a letter from Cæsar himself , dated the first of the same month , and which he says reported matters in Britain as going on satisfactorily . We have described Cæsar's crossing the Thames and subsequent advance . Meanwhile the ...
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... received ; that although no booty had been cap- tured , a tribute had been imposed on the island , and that the writers were transporting the army to the Continent . As we have seen , another storm had scattered his transports , so ...
... received ; that although no booty had been cap- tured , a tribute had been imposed on the island , and that the writers were transporting the army to the Continent . As we have seen , another storm had scattered his transports , so ...
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... received a despatch from Creutz , dated February 9 , 1769 , with a post- script , which ran : - ' M. de Choiseul implores your Royal Highness to make a journey to France to see the king . " I assure you , " he said to me , " it will be ...
... received a despatch from Creutz , dated February 9 , 1769 , with a post- script , which ran : - ' M. de Choiseul implores your Royal Highness to make a journey to France to see the king . " I assure you , " he said to me , " it will be ...
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Page 511 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Page 496 - Nor wilt thou snare him in the white ravine, Nor find him dropt upon the firths of ice. That huddling slant in furrow-cloven falls To roll the torrent out of dusky doors: But follow ; let the torrent dance thee down To find him in the valley; let the wild Lean-headed Eagles yelp alone, and leave The monstrous ledges there to slope, and spill Their thousand wreaths of dangling water-smoke, That like a broken purpose waste in air: So waste not thou; but come; for all the vales Await thee; azure pillars...
Page 185 - For I know, that in me, (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me ; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Page 184 - For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 184 - In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Page 503 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 185 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 387 - The glass is as it were a shining star. (This lamp is) kindled from a blessed tree, an olive neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil would almost glow forth (of itself) though no fire touched it. Light upon light.
Page 185 - For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil, which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, BUT SIN THAT DWELLTH IN ME. I find then a law, that, when I would do good Evil is present with me.
Page 488 - And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro...