The Quarterly Review, Volume 21William 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, 1819 |
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... opinion which occurred amongst us respecting its colour . Although each person of the embassy naturally fixed his attention on Napoleon's countenance , all did not agree on the colour of his eyes . There was nothing in the appearance of ...
... opinion which occurred amongst us respecting its colour . Although each person of the embassy naturally fixed his attention on Napoleon's countenance , all did not agree on the colour of his eyes . There was nothing in the appearance of ...
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... opinion of the urchin , the Christ - cross - row is a mile too long . Larger in their growth , yet equally lazy , are those who pride themselves in dealing out the small talk of literary cen- sure , and who mock at the author of a ...
... opinion of the urchin , the Christ - cross - row is a mile too long . Larger in their growth , yet equally lazy , are those who pride themselves in dealing out the small talk of literary cen- sure , and who mock at the author of a ...
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... opinions appear to become his own , and , though very modestly delivered , are communicated with the freedom and independence of one who is dispensing from original stores . The appearance of effort and constraint almost wholly ceases ...
... opinions appear to become his own , and , though very modestly delivered , are communicated with the freedom and independence of one who is dispensing from original stores . The appearance of effort and constraint almost wholly ceases ...
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... opinion the history of literature and of Christianity furnishes the best answer . The an nals of every age attest the perfect compatibility of the highest intellectual faculties with the profoundest , the most genuine , most efficacious ...
... opinion the history of literature and of Christianity furnishes the best answer . The an nals of every age attest the perfect compatibility of the highest intellectual faculties with the profoundest , the most genuine , most efficacious ...
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... opinions . When I arrived at the point of the black being turned out , they exclaimed , Ay , right , perfectly right , I ... opinion , but withheld it , think- ing it was wise to look at every thing as it stood , and form a deliberate ...
... opinions . When I arrived at the point of the black being turned out , they exclaimed , Ay , right , perfectly right , I ... opinion , but withheld it , think- ing it was wise to look at every thing as it stood , and form a deliberate ...
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Page 47 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 36 - In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Page 40 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent yc shall all likewise perish.
Page 45 - If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Page 117 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 383 - The charms that she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud? Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud.
Page 47 - ... waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou...
Page 47 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 346 - Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day; and who knows when was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment.
Page 346 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.