The Quarterly Review, Volume 114William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1863 - English literature |
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... remarkable political metamor- phoses that have distinguished the present century , an ancient absolutism has been suddenly transformed into a great constitu- tional state . Its provinces , separated by languages , differences of origin ...
... remarkable political metamor- phoses that have distinguished the present century , an ancient absolutism has been suddenly transformed into a great constitu- tional state . Its provinces , separated by languages , differences of origin ...
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... remarkable . Endowed over a vast extent of her territory with a soil so rich and fertile that it can be compared only to some of the virgin prairies and savannas of the New World , the Austrian empire did not until within a recent ...
... remarkable . Endowed over a vast extent of her territory with a soil so rich and fertile that it can be compared only to some of the virgin prairies and savannas of the New World , the Austrian empire did not until within a recent ...
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... remarkable country which they inhabit . Hun- gary is a vast plain sloping to the south , and is surrounded on every side by mountains of different degrees of elevation . The greater part of the country consists of two levels - one ...
... remarkable country which they inhabit . Hun- gary is a vast plain sloping to the south , and is surrounded on every side by mountains of different degrees of elevation . The greater part of the country consists of two levels - one ...
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... remarkable peculiarities . In Transylvania it is found in porphyry ; in Bohemia in crystalline schistous rocks ; and in the Tyrol and at Oravicza , an important mining district in Hungary , in a peculiar sandstone , traversed by small ...
... remarkable peculiarities . In Transylvania it is found in porphyry ; in Bohemia in crystalline schistous rocks ; and in the Tyrol and at Oravicza , an important mining district in Hungary , in a peculiar sandstone , traversed by small ...
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... remarkable people who are most numerous in Transylvania are the Rou- mans , the descendants of the civilized Romans of Dacia : they have greatly degenerated under centuries of oppression ; but their facial contour , dark complexion ...
... remarkable people who are most numerous in Transylvania are the Rou- mans , the descendants of the civilized Romans of Dacia : they have greatly degenerated under centuries of oppression ; but their facial contour , dark complexion ...
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Page 188 - his own bitterness ; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Page 60 - Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
Page 63 - And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Page 238 - And here I prophesy ; — This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 187 - And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? "For the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Page 209 - That the dead are seen no more, said Imlac, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which...
Page 50 - Tarsus held, or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th' ocean stream: Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 153 - This rambling propensity strengthened with my years. Books of voyages and travels became my passion, and in devouring their contents, I neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander about the...
Page 74 - And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 70 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.