The National Review, Volume 15Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1862 |
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... established it as an institution in this country . In massive grandeur , Handel remains wholly unsurpassed ; and the felicitous realisations of the various as- pects of Hebrew character , national and individual , which he has given us ...
... established it as an institution in this country . In massive grandeur , Handel remains wholly unsurpassed ; and the felicitous realisations of the various as- pects of Hebrew character , national and individual , which he has given us ...
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... establish , as an unerring test of man's favour with God , of his righteousness of heart and life , the amount of adversity or pro- sperity which now falls to him . They accuse Job of secret sins because he has come to great misfortune ...
... establish , as an unerring test of man's favour with God , of his righteousness of heart and life , the amount of adversity or pro- sperity which now falls to him . They accuse Job of secret sins because he has come to great misfortune ...
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... establish ? The inference is , that unerring wisdom guides and is one with his justice . We cannot explain the enigma of the world ; but we know that the world is in the hands of One who is infinitely wise as well as just . Ewald's view ...
... establish ? The inference is , that unerring wisdom guides and is one with his justice . We cannot explain the enigma of the world ; but we know that the world is in the hands of One who is infinitely wise as well as just . Ewald's view ...
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... established there , which extends to every sort of lettered communication addressed to the public eye , -from the most important books in a library to the handbill affixed upon a wall , or the simple inscription on a stone in the ...
... established there , which extends to every sort of lettered communication addressed to the public eye , -from the most important books in a library to the handbill affixed upon a wall , or the simple inscription on a stone in the ...
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... established by the prëemi- nence of Dante and his successors . We have Dante's own word for it that the latter part of the supposition is erroneous , and that he adopted a language which was already recognised . His great poem , indeed ...
... established by the prëemi- nence of Dante and his successors . We have Dante's own word for it that the latter part of the supposition is erroneous , and that he adopted a language which was already recognised . His great poem , indeed ...
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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.