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... TELEGRAPH , PAGE 466 482 506 The Age . The Atlantic Telegraph . A History of Preliminary Experi- mental Proceedings , and a Descriptive Account of the Present State and Prospects of the Undertaking . Pp . 70 . London . Elemens de ...
... TELEGRAPH , PAGE 466 482 506 The Age . The Atlantic Telegraph . A History of Preliminary Experi- mental Proceedings , and a Descriptive Account of the Present State and Prospects of the Undertaking . Pp . 70 . London . Elemens de ...
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... telegraph will , of course , shoot its wires over the desert , and under the sea , to India ; and every change thus called up by British necessities , will be a fresh impulse to Egypt . In a few years this neglected province of Turkey ...
... telegraph will , of course , shoot its wires over the desert , and under the sea , to India ; and every change thus called up by British necessities , will be a fresh impulse to Egypt . In a few years this neglected province of Turkey ...
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... telegraph of economising and wielding Anglo - Saxon force . They will be so regarded by enemies , and we apprehend that those means can only be safely entrusted to the custody of British soldiers . A trained force of sappers should form ...
... telegraph of economising and wielding Anglo - Saxon force . They will be so regarded by enemies , and we apprehend that those means can only be safely entrusted to the custody of British soldiers . A trained force of sappers should form ...
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... telegraph , with the Minie and the railway , imper- fectly developed as they now are , we have heard old Indians declare , have saved England from defeat . It is in that field that European science in arts , as well as in arms , should ...
... telegraph , with the Minie and the railway , imper- fectly developed as they now are , we have heard old Indians declare , have saved England from defeat . It is in that field that European science in arts , as well as in arms , should ...
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... reflect that they are only a worse development of the Firkin type . Firkin abuses the stewardship of a material estate ; they waste the far more potent wealth of mind . The Atlantic Telegraph . 51 ART . X. - 1 518 Decay of Modern Satire .
... reflect that they are only a worse development of the Firkin type . Firkin abuses the stewardship of a material estate ; they waste the far more potent wealth of mind . The Atlantic Telegraph . 51 ART . X. - 1 518 Decay of Modern Satire .
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Page 131 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 126 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 92 - To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us; we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
Page 92 - And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation, to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Page 94 - For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us ; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances...
Page 86 - And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech, or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Page 507 - She scream'd for fresh Geneva. Not to her Did the blithe fields of Tothill, or thy street, St. Giles, its fair varieties expand; Till at the last in slow-drawn cart she went To execution. Dost thou ask her crime? SHE WHIPP'D TWO FEMALE 'PRENTICES TO DEATH, AND HID THEM IN THE COAL-HOLE.
Page 168 - WILLIAM, by Divine Providence Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, most earnestly commend to your brotherly love the Right Rev.
Page 100 - The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down in scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from scripture; unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the spirit, or traditions of men.
Page 508 - No — through th' extended globe his feelings run As broad and general as th' unbounded sun ! No narrow bigot he ; — his reason'd view Thy interests, England, ranks with thine, Peru ! France at our doors, he sees no danger nigh, But heaves for Turkey's woes th' impartial sigh ; A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country — but his own.