The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review, Volume 10Sampson Low, Marston, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... brought into Ecclefechan in a cart , and carried in a chair up the steep stairs to his dying brother's room . There he remained some twenty minutes , and came down again with a face which printed itself in the little Carlyle's memory ...
... brought into Ecclefechan in a cart , and carried in a chair up the steep stairs to his dying brother's room . There he remained some twenty minutes , and came down again with a face which printed itself in the little Carlyle's memory ...
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... brought them oatmeal , potatoes , and salt butter from the home farm , with a few eggs occasionally as a luxury . With their thrifty habits they required no other food . In the return cart their linen went back to their mothers to be ...
... brought them oatmeal , potatoes , and salt butter from the home farm , with a few eggs occasionally as a luxury . With their thrifty habits they required no other food . In the return cart their linen went back to their mothers to be ...
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... brought her hither over seas ; and here , as Irving's ex - pupil , she now , cheery though with dim outlooks , was . Irving saw her again in Glasgow one summer's touring , & c .; he himself accompanying joyfully - not joining , so I ...
... brought her hither over seas ; and here , as Irving's ex - pupil , she now , cheery though with dim outlooks , was . Irving saw her again in Glasgow one summer's touring , & c .; he himself accompanying joyfully - not joining , so I ...
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... brought up the weekly or monthly supplies of oatmeal , cakes , butter , and , when needed , under - garments , returning with the dirty linen for the mother to wash and mend , and occasional presents which were never forgotten ; while ...
... brought up the weekly or monthly supplies of oatmeal , cakes , butter , and , when needed , under - garments , returning with the dirty linen for the mother to wash and mend , and occasional presents which were never forgotten ; while ...
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... Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about or emotionalised , but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct , himself too instinctively upright , pure of heart , and reverent , Carlyle , like his parents ...
... Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about or emotionalised , but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct , himself too instinctively upright , pure of heart , and reverent , Carlyle , like his parents ...
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Page 401 - Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Page 17 - Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
Page 716 - Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.
Page 815 - And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more.
Page 144 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 848 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Page 444 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 152 - Thy voice is on the rolling air ; I hear thee where the waters run ; Thou standest in the rising sun. And in the setting thou art fair.
Page 42 - I will meet it and defy it.' And as I so thought, there rushed like a stream of fire over my whole soul, and I shook base fear away from me forever. I was strong; of unknown strength; a spirit; almost a god. Ever from that time the temper of my misery was changed; not fear or whining sorrow was it, but indignation and grim fire-eyed defiance.
Page 831 - ... the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and power, embodying and illustrating its conceptions by imagination and fancy, and modulating its language on the principle of variety in uniformity.