Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 57John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1862 - American periodicals |
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... passed away since man first took possession of these islands . But how many centuries go to make up the sum of that period ? Well nigh two thousand years have come and gone since the Roman eagle first made its way through the dim ...
... passed away since man first took possession of these islands . But how many centuries go to make up the sum of that period ? Well nigh two thousand years have come and gone since the Roman eagle first made its way through the dim ...
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... passed Cape Guard- afui , it is practicable with glasses to discern distinctly the features of the frankincense mountains of Africa . The cape presents a desolate and forbidding aspect , beaten incessantly by winds , and entirely strip ...
... passed Cape Guard- afui , it is practicable with glasses to discern distinctly the features of the frankincense mountains of Africa . The cape presents a desolate and forbidding aspect , beaten incessantly by winds , and entirely strip ...
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... passed unnoticed ; and he resolved that it should be replaced , if possible , before he had again to risk the chance of discovery . Animated by the remembrance of former punishments , he set out alone , and without telling any one , in ...
... passed unnoticed ; and he resolved that it should be replaced , if possible , before he had again to risk the chance of discovery . Animated by the remembrance of former punishments , he set out alone , and without telling any one , in ...
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... passed in the Legislative Chamber the famous law of the thirty - first of May , 1850 , restricting universal suffrage , which , as an open breach of the Constitution , gave a pretext for the coup d'état of the second of December ...
... passed in the Legislative Chamber the famous law of the thirty - first of May , 1850 , restricting universal suffrage , which , as an open breach of the Constitution , gave a pretext for the coup d'état of the second of December ...
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... passed the laws of September under the them . dynasty of Orleans . Under Charles X. , M. Victor Cousin was forbidden to con- tinue his lectures on philosophy ; under Louis Philippe , M. Victor Cousin , Minis- ter of Public Instruction ...
... passed the laws of September under the them . dynasty of Orleans . Under Charles X. , M. Victor Cousin was forbidden to con- tinue his lectures on philosophy ; under Louis Philippe , M. Victor Cousin , Minis- ter of Public Instruction ...
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Page 482 - Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 299 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, Who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Page 529 - She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Page 363 - Wish MINE be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivied porch shall spring Each fragrant flower
Page 359 - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men : a man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it : this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Page 238 - ... famille? Que mon fils n'oublie jamais les derniers mots de son père, que je lui répète expressément : Qu'il ne cherche jamais à venger notre mort.
Page 278 - To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry out for togas and the picturesque, Is fatal, — foolish too.
Page 448 - Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.
Page 260 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 190 - Platforms supported upon tall piles stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge. At the first the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens, but since that time the custom...