The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review, Volume 10Sampson Low, Marston, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... look with favour on displays of precocious genius . Vanity was the last quality that such a man as James Carlyle would en- courage , and there was a severity in his manner which effectively repressed a disposition to it . We had all to ...
... look with favour on displays of precocious genius . Vanity was the last quality that such a man as James Carlyle would en- courage , and there was a severity in his manner which effectively repressed a disposition to it . We had all to ...
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... look after them either on their journey or when they came to the end . They walked from their homes , being unable to pay for coach- hire . They entered their own names at the college . They found their own humble lodgings , and were ...
... look after them either on their journey or when they came to the end . They walked from their homes , being unable to pay for coach- hire . They entered their own names at the college . They found their own humble lodgings , and were ...
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... look about you in a month or two . You know I am there ; my house and all that I can do for you is yours ; two Annandale people must not be strangers in Fife . ' The doubting Thomas durst not quite believe all this , so chivalrous was ...
... look about you in a month or two . You know I am there ; my house and all that I can do for you is yours ; two Annandale people must not be strangers in Fife . ' The doubting Thomas durst not quite believe all this , so chivalrous was ...
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... look forward to the ensuing autumn , when I hope to have the happiness of discussing matters with you as we were wont to do of old . It gives me pleasure to hear that the bairns are at school . There are few things in this world more ...
... look forward to the ensuing autumn , when I hope to have the happiness of discussing matters with you as we were wont to do of old . It gives me pleasure to hear that the bairns are at school . There are few things in this world more ...
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... look back with calmness and forward with hope . But I need not dwell upon this solemn subject . It is familiar to the thoughts of every one who has any thought . I am rather afraid I have not been quite regular in reading that best of ...
... look back with calmness and forward with hope . But I need not dwell upon this solemn subject . It is familiar to the thoughts of every one who has any thought . I am rather afraid I have not been quite regular in reading that best of ...
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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.