The Library Magazine, Volume 3John B. Alden, 1887 |
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... century , emerges from the darkness nized and authenticated by the French of obscurity and idolatry , adopts Government ? The Christianity , and comes within the These French claims , which form pale of modern civilization , it cannot ...
... century , emerges from the darkness nized and authenticated by the French of obscurity and idolatry , adopts Government ? The Christianity , and comes within the These French claims , which form pale of modern civilization , it cannot ...
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... Century . LORD BYRON UPON ROBERT SOUTHEY AND ISAAC DIS- RAELI . * Lord Lauderdale set off from hence twelve days ago accompanied by a * On November 24 , 1818 , two years after taking up his residence at Venice . Byron wrote as follows ...
... Century . LORD BYRON UPON ROBERT SOUTHEY AND ISAAC DIS- RAELI . * Lord Lauderdale set off from hence twelve days ago accompanied by a * On November 24 , 1818 , two years after taking up his residence at Venice . Byron wrote as follows ...
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... century ; that the Cabbala did not The picture which Wellhausen draws originate among the Jews of Palestine , savors of modern European politics but is traceable to the Akkadians ; and rather than of ancient Hebrew life . that the ...
... century ; that the Cabbala did not The picture which Wellhausen draws originate among the Jews of Palestine , savors of modern European politics but is traceable to the Akkadians ; and rather than of ancient Hebrew life . that the ...
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... century merely on but part of the Oriental style ; and the ipse dixit of the critic . He is indeed in all ancient narratives - as , bound to show cause why the passage for instance , in the Aryan folk tales is to be suspected beyond the ...
... century merely on but part of the Oriental style ; and the ipse dixit of the critic . He is indeed in all ancient narratives - as , bound to show cause why the passage for instance , in the Aryan folk tales is to be suspected beyond the ...
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... century ago are called in question by Wellhausen , with the result that the general reader must become convinced that the arguments used have not the force which they were once held to possess . The Law and the Prophets have been ...
... century ago are called in question by Wellhausen , with the result that the general reader must become convinced that the arguments used have not the force which they were once held to possess . The Law and the Prophets have been ...
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Page 542 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 457 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 107 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 542 - God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 534 - Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music - subtle, sweet, mournful?
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Page 536 - FROM the time that I became a Catholic, of course I have no further history of my religious opinions to narrate. In saying this, I do not mean to say that my mind has been idle, or that I have given up thinking on theological subjects; but that I have had no variations to record, and have had no anxiety of heart whatever.
Page 542 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice, "Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd, "I have felt.
Page 554 - ... errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature. The boat at St.
Page 530 - An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities. The wise man of the Stoics would, no doubt, be a grander object than a steam-engine. But there are steam-engines. And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born.