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... church . He was required , either to suppress his book , or to renounce his bishopric . As the story goes , literature carried the day against divinity . The good bishop would not desert the children of his fancy , and sacrifi- ced ...
... church . He was required , either to suppress his book , or to renounce his bishopric . As the story goes , literature carried the day against divinity . The good bishop would not desert the children of his fancy , and sacrifi- ced ...
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... church , that , according to the tradition , the us with vivid pictures of Roman life , public and vanquished artist killed himself from mortifica- private , such as we may conceive it to have ap- tion . Sir Walter Scott , in the same ...
... church , that , according to the tradition , the us with vivid pictures of Roman life , public and vanquished artist killed himself from mortifica- private , such as we may conceive it to have ap- tion . Sir Walter Scott , in the same ...
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... church , The owner's soul " goes forth upon the sea " and the snowy sail of a seabound barque , or the lof- " leaps up " to hear the " howling of the billows , " ty peak of a mountain range . the " song of the seagulls " and the ...
... church , The owner's soul " goes forth upon the sea " and the snowy sail of a seabound barque , or the lof- " leaps up " to hear the " howling of the billows , " ty peak of a mountain range . the " song of the seagulls " and the ...
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... church , by the mere claim of his voca- having authority . " This tone , though to the tion , a warm - hearted sailor by the very candid practical observer it is sometimes amusing , was generosity of his soul , or one of Nature's ...
... church , by the mere claim of his voca- having authority . " This tone , though to the tion , a warm - hearted sailor by the very candid practical observer it is sometimes amusing , was generosity of his soul , or one of Nature's ...
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... church upon all holydays , Sunday excepted , betwixt the ser- mon and evening prayers , to show the tombs and effigies of the kings and queens in wax to the meaner sort of people , who then flock thither ing Dr. Barrow in the pulpit ...
... church upon all holydays , Sunday excepted , betwixt the ser- mon and evening prayers , to show the tombs and effigies of the kings and queens in wax to the meaner sort of people , who then flock thither ing Dr. Barrow in the pulpit ...
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Página 118 - How far in the discharge of my official duties I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated, the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world.
Página 277 - ... all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. all the superadded ideas furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation are to be exploded as a ridiculous absurd and antiquated fashion.
Página 277 - All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which by a bland assimilation incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off.
Página 14 - 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 46 - Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Página 394 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 276 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Página 14 - 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. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is...
Página 276 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; tha£ of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Página 468 - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.