The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1Houlston and Stonemen, 1862 |
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... thought , composed in admirable taste , and suffused with thorough- going judgment . All this time , too , he was pursuing his course of academical duties in such a manner , as to have won for himself most justly the highest ...
... thought , composed in admirable taste , and suffused with thorough- going judgment . All this time , too , he was pursuing his course of academical duties in such a manner , as to have won for himself most justly the highest ...
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... thoughts to which his attention had been directed , and thereafter to subject his composition to vigorous , severe , and critical revision . This useful habit cultivated in him that concentration of thought , that thorough bottoming of ...
... thoughts to which his attention had been directed , and thereafter to subject his composition to vigorous , severe , and critical revision . This useful habit cultivated in him that concentration of thought , that thorough bottoming of ...
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... thought he should take off his flesh and sit in his bones , " which our elderly lady regarded as a very " unorthodox proceeding . " In any but the Church of England , sustained and refined by a " Church patronage , " judiciously , and ...
... thought he should take off his flesh and sit in his bones , " which our elderly lady regarded as a very " unorthodox proceeding . " In any but the Church of England , sustained and refined by a " Church patronage , " judiciously , and ...
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... thought , without ever striving , Excelsior - like , to ascend to the clearer air , and attain the stand - point of a wider circle , in the higher altitudes of the soul's career , -for such as these the book is certainly well enough ...
... thought , without ever striving , Excelsior - like , to ascend to the clearer air , and attain the stand - point of a wider circle , in the higher altitudes of the soul's career , -for such as these the book is certainly well enough ...
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... thought has overspread , with some degree of gloom , our reflections and conclusions . 66 " Edwin of Deira " is as unlike the Life Drama " as is " Jack the Giant Killer " to " Ivanhoe . " It is scarcely credible that the same man can ...
... thought has overspread , with some degree of gloom , our reflections and conclusions . 66 " Edwin of Deira " is as unlike the Life Drama " as is " Jack the Giant Killer " to " Ivanhoe . " It is scarcely credible that the same man can ...
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Page 246 - He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Page 462 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Page 49 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the lovemaking, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 426 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
Page 34 - And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Page 34 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger : her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Page 350 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty ; * Calls virtue, hypocrite ; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there ; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Page 254 - Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
Page 22 - But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 62 - But the neutral country has a right to preserve its relations with the enemy ; and you are not at liberty to conclude that any communication between them can partake, in any degree, of the nature of hostility against you.