The Contemporary Review, Volume 28A. Strahan, 1876 - Literature |
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... true moral and spiritual interior of the vast regions of the rising sun . We may thus , and then , form some idea of the relations both between their theoretical and their actual religion , and between their beliefs and their personal ...
... true moral and spiritual interior of the vast regions of the rising sun . We may thus , and then , form some idea of the relations both between their theoretical and their actual religion , and between their beliefs and their personal ...
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... true that he is said to take advice ; but he is the sole judge what advice he shall ask , and whether he shall follow it . It is true that whatever he pro- mulgates as an article of faith he declares to have been contained in the ...
... true that he is said to take advice ; but he is the sole judge what advice he shall ask , and whether he shall follow it . It is true that whatever he pro- mulgates as an article of faith he declares to have been contained in the ...
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... true or false . They are not all true ; they may all be false , and yet the tacit , unastonished acceptance of them as true by the populace , implies that they have at least the common flavour of the ordinary fruits of Persian ...
... true or false . They are not all true ; they may all be false , and yet the tacit , unastonished acceptance of them as true by the populace , implies that they have at least the common flavour of the ordinary fruits of Persian ...
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... true to the principles of the Koran , the theory of punishment is that , not the State , but the relatives of the victim , must have vengeance on the actual or would - be murderers ; and in allegiance to this principle the Shah's ...
... true to the principles of the Koran , the theory of punishment is that , not the State , but the relatives of the victim , must have vengeance on the actual or would - be murderers ; and in allegiance to this principle the Shah's ...
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... true is both unpoetical and unnatural , is not only wearisome in the extreme but most decidedly disgusting . " So writes Schlegel of the French comedy of the past time , and so might he write , with a difference , of that of the present ...
... true is both unpoetical and unnatural , is not only wearisome in the extreme but most decidedly disgusting . " So writes Schlegel of the French comedy of the past time , and so might he write , with a difference , of that of the present ...
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Page 911 - If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Page 741 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 225 - Verily I say unto you. Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
Page 225 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them ? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Page 925 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Page 911 - Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Page 512 - ... pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Page 912 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Page 109 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, That thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 511 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.