The National Review, Volume 15Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1862 |
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... Europe in rapid succession , as well to seek the personal ac- quaintance of the leading professor of the day , as to submit their own productions to his judgment . " In 1841 , the King of Prus- sia , anxious to attach Mendelssohn to his ...
... Europe in rapid succession , as well to seek the personal ac- quaintance of the leading professor of the day , as to submit their own productions to his judgment . " In 1841 , the King of Prus- sia , anxious to attach Mendelssohn to his ...
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... Europe , must have acted as a constant stimulus to fresh exertions , -a stimulus which his fertile and susceptible genius did not need , but which it was impossible for him not to feel . It should also be remembered that he did not ...
... Europe , must have acted as a constant stimulus to fresh exertions , -a stimulus which his fertile and susceptible genius did not need , but which it was impossible for him not to feel . It should also be remembered that he did not ...
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... Europe and India to one common parent . In summing up the part which these nations have borne in the civilisation of the world , M. Rénan concludes that monotheism was peculiarly their gift , inasmuch as it was their instinct . Will ...
... Europe and India to one common parent . In summing up the part which these nations have borne in the civilisation of the world , M. Rénan concludes that monotheism was peculiarly their gift , inasmuch as it was their instinct . Will ...
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... Europe , and ( leaving the Greeks apart ) divides it into north and south , the nations of the first using Jo for an affirmative , and those of the second , Oil , or Oc , or Si . Thus the southern idiom is now ( he says ) triform ...
... Europe , and ( leaving the Greeks apart ) divides it into north and south , the nations of the first using Jo for an affirmative , and those of the second , Oil , or Oc , or Si . Thus the southern idiom is now ( he says ) triform ...
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... Europe was crowned , in 1183 , by the treaty of Constance . So passed thirty years of alternating misery and triumph , enough to create poets in every town ; but we do not hear of one . More than a century later Dante said : " Bertrand ...
... Europe was crowned , in 1183 , by the treaty of Constance . So passed thirty years of alternating misery and triumph , enough to create poets in every town ; but we do not hear of one . More than a century later Dante said : " Bertrand ...
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Page 36 - I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Page 95 - Wherefore if it be His pleasure through whom is the life of all things, that my life continue with me a few years, it is my hope that I shall yet write concerning her what hath not before been written of any woman.
Page 35 - LET the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, " There is a man child conceived.
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Page 35 - Cursed be the day wherein I was born: Let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; Making him very glad.
Page 36 - The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
Page 44 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor : and they served other gods.
Page 93 - Then saw I many broken hinted sights In the uncertain state I stepp'd into. Meseem'd to be I know not in what place, Where ladies through the street, like mournful lights, Ran with loose hair, and eyes that frighten'd you By their own terror, and a pale amaze: The while, little by little, as I thought, The sun ceased, and the stars began to gather, And each wept at the other; And birds...
Page 59 - Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 132 - Thea, I feel thee ere I see thy face; Look up, and let me see our doom in it; Look up, and tell me if this feeble shape Is Saturn's; tell me, if thou hear'st the voice Of Saturn; tell me, if this wrinkling brow, 100 Naked and bare of its great diadem, Peers like the front of Saturn.