The National Review, Volumen2R. Theobald, 1856 |
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... means and some motives to pursue it . Some tutorial system probably existed at most colleges . Learning was not wholly useless in the church . The English gentleman has ever loved a nice and classical scholarship . But these advan ...
... means and some motives to pursue it . Some tutorial system probably existed at most colleges . Learning was not wholly useless in the church . The English gentleman has ever loved a nice and classical scholarship . But these advan ...
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... ; whether to the second or to the third century , or , with the generality of our writers , means also to include the fourth . But to whatever age he may restrain it , the difficulty at last will be to assign a reason why Edward Gibbon .
... ; whether to the second or to the third century , or , with the generality of our writers , means also to include the fourth . But to whatever age he may restrain it , the difficulty at last will be to assign a reason why Edward Gibbon .
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... mean while , by his appealing thus to the ear- liest fathers only as unanimous on this article , a common reader ... means that the apostolic miracles have just as much evidence and no more than the popish or the patristic ; and how ...
... mean while , by his appealing thus to the ear- liest fathers only as unanimous on this article , a common reader ... means that the apostolic miracles have just as much evidence and no more than the popish or the patristic ; and how ...
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... means extinct ; and they likewise show , what is also evident , that this kind of composition is easier with respect to ancient than with respect to modern times . The barbarians burned the books ; and though all the historians abuse ...
... means extinct ; and they likewise show , what is also evident , that this kind of composition is easier with respect to ancient than with respect to modern times . The barbarians burned the books ; and though all the historians abuse ...
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... mean by this to charge Gibbon with any denial , any overt distinct disbelief in the existence of a supernatural Being . This would be very unjust ; his cold composed mind had nothing in common with the Jacob- inical outbreak of the next ...
... mean by this to charge Gibbon with any denial , any overt distinct disbelief in the existence of a supernatural Being . This would be very unjust ; his cold composed mind had nothing in common with the Jacob- inical outbreak of the next ...
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Página 35 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Página 19 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Página 465 - CAMPBELL : — THE NATURE OF THE ATONEMENT AND ITS RELATION TO REMISSION OF SINS AND ETERNAL LIFE. Fourth and Cheaper Edition, crown 8vo. 6s. "Among the first theological treatises of this generation.
Página 353 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Página 369 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Página 336 - ... and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation: others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages and of worthies.
Página 353 - He must see ordinary men as they appear in their ordinary business, and in their ordinary pleasures. He must mingle in the crowds of the exchange and the coffee-house.
Página 369 - Years following years, steal something every day, At last they steal us from ourselves away; In one our frolics, one amusements end, In one a mistress drops, in one a friend...
Página 354 - Walter Scott, in the same manner, has used those fragments of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them, in a manner which may well excite their envy. He has constructed out of their gleanings works which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated.
Página 336 - Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas...