The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review, Volume 6Sampson Low, Marston, 1879 - Great Britain |
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... nature , which would for ever remain destitute of schools and teachers if the State had not come to their assistance . But the transition is easy from intervention and control , from assistance and participation , to the exclusive ...
... nature , which would for ever remain destitute of schools and teachers if the State had not come to their assistance . But the transition is easy from intervention and control , from assistance and participation , to the exclusive ...
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... Nature and find books in the running brooks , sermons in stones , and good in everything . ' If he has his eyes and ... natural history , every moment of the day must be suggesting something new and interesting to him . A strange scene ...
... Nature and find books in the running brooks , sermons in stones , and good in everything . ' If he has his eyes and ... natural history , every moment of the day must be suggesting something new and interesting to him . A strange scene ...
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... natural pride of the nation it would be , if Her Majesty could inaugu- rate the new system by a personal visit ... nature , separation is out of the question , and it is the common interest of both to make the connec- tion as close ...
... natural pride of the nation it would be , if Her Majesty could inaugu- rate the new system by a personal visit ... nature , separation is out of the question , and it is the common interest of both to make the connec- tion as close ...
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... nature and freedom . We are so accustomed to the system we have that we call it natural , although it is in the highest degree artificial ; and we 152 July THE NINETEENTH CENTURY .
... nature and freedom . We are so accustomed to the system we have that we call it natural , although it is in the highest degree artificial ; and we 152 July THE NINETEENTH CENTURY .
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... nature ? He had profound seriousness . And would not a dramatic poet with this depth of nature be a tragedian if he could ? Of course he would . For only by breasting in full the storm and cloud of life , breasting it and passing ...
... nature ? He had profound seriousness . And would not a dramatic poet with this depth of nature be a tragedian if he could ? Of course he would . For only by breasting in full the storm and cloud of life , breasting it and passing ...
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Page 79 - of communion. By the law of the Church, ' every parishioner shall communicate at the least three times in the year.' Not only, however, do the large majority of Anglicans not communicate thrice in the year ; but, persons who thus fail in their Christian duty are considered to be
Page 823 - numerous examples analogous in every respect. For instance, when Milton says— Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, he has said enough for the man of literary cultivation.
Page 447 - being shall rehearse, When all the breathers of this world are dead. Of the unpublished sonnets I am permitted to append the four which follow. Sonnttt, Lyrict, &c. p.
Page 230 - movement, drew back, made choice for its spirit to live at one point instead of living, or trying to live, at many, entered, as I have so often said, the prison of Puritanism, and had the key turned upon its spirit there for two hundred years.
Page 791 - it enacted . . . that any person convicted of any offence for which he is liable to be whipt or burnt on the hand, or shall have been ordered to any workhouse . . • may be sent to some of His Majesty's colonies and plantations in America. . • • And the court before whom he is convicted shall have power to
Page 229 - when the town was an entity powerful enough, because homogeneous enough, to evoke a drama embodying its notions of life. But we have no modern drama. Our vast society is not homogeneous enough, not sufficiently united, even any large portion of it, in a common view of
Page 584 - All are taught an avarice of praise— They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming bless'd, they grow to what they seem. This certainly is no fruit of book knowledge ; but let us not speak of Goldsmith alone, nor of Gibbon, for everybody cannot spend years abroad ; but such men as Pope, Hume, Sterne, how well they knew how to read the French
Page 693 - thief who has feasted on stolen cattle ; release him like a calf from the rope.' Without doubt a most remarkable passage; but how poor, jejune, and colourless by the side of the fifty-first Psalm, with its searching particularity, its profound humiliation, and its childlike and familiar confidence
Page 822 - thou invisible spirit of vine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil I
Page 691 - Next to this adoration of our God, the Father of heaven, the Father of men, we find in Greece a worship of nature. The powers of Nature, originally worshipped as such, were afterwards changed into a family of gods, of which Zeus became the King and Father. This third phase is what is generally called Greek mythology.