The Quarterly Review, Volume 77William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1846 - English literature |
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... privilege . ' When any cause was depending before him in which a Peer was concerned , he gave him notice , by a missive under his hand , of the time appointed for hearing it ; but he never was suspected of unduly leaning in favour of ...
... privilege . ' When any cause was depending before him in which a Peer was concerned , he gave him notice , by a missive under his hand , of the time appointed for hearing it ; but he never was suspected of unduly leaning in favour of ...
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... privileges , and had often and recently visited such expressions of dissent with their vengeance . In the opinion , however , which he conscientiously believed to be true Holt persisted , and ultimately had the ... Privilege Question . 193.
... privileges , and had often and recently visited such expressions of dissent with their vengeance . In the opinion , however , which he conscientiously believed to be true Holt persisted , and ultimately had the ... Privilege Question . 193.
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... , ' says Mr. Townsend , rising here into eloquence , Jeffries himself , en- sanguined as in a scarlet robe , lay at their mercy in the Tower ; 0 2 6 6 within within their own walls sat Sawyer , and Williams , Privilege Question . 195.
... , ' says Mr. Townsend , rising here into eloquence , Jeffries himself , en- sanguined as in a scarlet robe , lay at their mercy in the Tower ; 0 2 6 6 within within their own walls sat Sawyer , and Williams , Privilege Question . 195.
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... privilege which have lately occupied attention . The period of the title - page does not indeed embrace them , as they began to be agitated since the passing of the the Reform Act : but the history , in many 196 Townsend's History of ...
... privilege which have lately occupied attention . The period of the title - page does not indeed embrace them , as they began to be agitated since the passing of the the Reform Act : but the history , in many 196 Townsend's History of ...
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... Privilege is at length torn away . ' In the text the same last feather is said to have been remorselessly ' torn away— a startling announcement at this day , when Privilege has been asserting its claims in the loudest and most ...
... Privilege is at length torn away . ' In the text the same last feather is said to have been remorselessly ' torn away— a startling announcement at this day , when Privilege has been asserting its claims in the loudest and most ...
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Page 386 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 411 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Page 249 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him ? But ye have despised the poor.
Page 254 - Search then the ruling passion : there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest.
Page 412 - ... from the nature of the human mind, time is necessary for the full comprehension and perfection of great ideas ; and that the highest and most wonderful truths, though communicated to the world once for all by inspired teachers could not be comprehended all at once by the recipients, but, as...
Page 37 - His friendship and conversation lay much among the good fellows and humourists ; and his delights were accordingly, drinking, laughing, singing, kissing, and all the extravagances of the bottle. He had a set of banterers for the most part, near him ; as in old time great men kept fools to make them merry. And these fellows abusing one another and their betters, were a regale to him.
Page 19 - I must put your Highness in remembrance of one thing; and that is this: The Pope, as your Grace knoweth, is a prince as you are, and in league with all other Christian princes. It may hereafter so fall out that your Grace and he may vary upon some points of the league; whereupon may grow breach of amity and war between you both. I think it best therefore that that place be amended, and his authority more slenderly touched.
Page 1 - ... the lives and characters of a long succession of influential magistrates and ministers, and the manly style of his narrative. We need hardly say that we shall expect with great interest the continuation of this performance.
Page 563 - THE possible destiny of the United States of America, — as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen, — stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception.
Page 9 - And it came to pass when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished ; that Moses commanded the Levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your GOD, that it may be there for a witness against thee.