The North British Review, Volumes 20-21W. P. Kennedy, 1854 |
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... position and cul- pability of Austria , 283. 284 ; England's dereliction of duty , 284 ; blame of the English press , 284 , 285 ; Cobden's share in the common sin , 286 ; prospects of the war , 286 , 287 ; resources of Russia , 287 ...
... position and cul- pability of Austria , 283. 284 ; England's dereliction of duty , 284 ; blame of the English press , 284 , 285 ; Cobden's share in the common sin , 286 ; prospects of the war , 286 , 287 ; resources of Russia , 287 ...
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... position of , in the war in the East , 283 ; Russo - Greek Church , 293 . B Bacon , Lord , his project for a Philosophical Society , 113 . Bähr's edition of Herodotus , 208 . Barral , J. A. , his éloge on F. Arago , 246 . Biblical ...
... position of , in the war in the East , 283 ; Russo - Greek Church , 293 . B Bacon , Lord , his project for a Philosophical Society , 113 . Bähr's edition of Herodotus , 208 . Barral , J. A. , his éloge on F. Arago , 246 . Biblical ...
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... position of Christians produced by it , 62 ; trial and death of Ignatius , 64 ; Hadrian's character , 65 ; his rescript to Fendanus , 66 ; letter to Servianus , 67 ; Jewish revolt under Barchobeb , 68 ; change in the Church of Jerusalem ...
... position of Christians produced by it , 62 ; trial and death of Ignatius , 64 ; Hadrian's character , 65 ; his rescript to Fendanus , 66 ; letter to Servianus , 67 ; Jewish revolt under Barchobeb , 68 ; change in the Church of Jerusalem ...
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... position , fligacy ; she lived to see it return , after its his bourgeois intellect , and his rare integrity ; tragic downfall and its dreary banishment , --Madame Necker , the rigid mother , the to a house that had been " swept and gar ...
... position , fligacy ; she lived to see it return , after its his bourgeois intellect , and his rare integrity ; tragic downfall and its dreary banishment , --Madame Necker , the rigid mother , the to a house that had been " swept and gar ...
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... position at court , and overruled the weak and vacillating attachment of the king . Necker found that his most careful and valuable plans were canvassed and spoilt by his enemies in the Council , where he was not present to defend them ...
... position at court , and overruled the weak and vacillating attachment of the king . Necker found that his most careful and valuable plans were canvassed and spoilt by his enemies in the Council , where he was not present to defend them ...
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Page 73 - ... a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light; a treasure-heap, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory...
Page 5 - The thing you ask of me is both difficult and useless. Although I have passed all my days in this place, I have neither counted the houses nor have I inquired into the number of the inhabitants; and as to what one person loads on his mules and the other stows away in the bottom of his ship, that is no business of mine.
Page 7 - I cannot, therefore, regard the stationary state of capital and wealth with the unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition.
Page 260 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 9 - Agony of bloody sweat," which all men have called divine. O brother, if this is not " worship," then I say, the more pity for worship ; for this is the noblest thing yet discovered under God's sky. Who art thou that complainest of thy life of toil ? Complain not. Look up, my wearied brother ; see thy...
Page 14 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Page 77 - But the modern English mind has this much in common with that of the Greek, that it intensely desires, in all things, the utmost completion or perfection compatible with their nature.
Page 56 - The education of the child must accord both in mode and arrangement with the education of mankind, considered historically.
Page 7 - I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.
Page 72 - ... we will go along the straight walk to the west front, and there stand for a time, looking up at its deep-pointed porches and the dark places between their pillars where there were statues once, and where the fragments, here and there, of a stately figure are still left...