The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 180A. Constable, 1894 |
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Page 148
... nature every year now promised a happier lot after death to those who were initiated into her rites . The belief in the persistence of life which had always existed among the Greeks received a higher and nobler stimulus , for to these ...
... nature every year now promised a happier lot after death to those who were initiated into her rites . The belief in the persistence of life which had always existed among the Greeks received a higher and nobler stimulus , for to these ...
Page 189
... natural processes are so slow that only of late has it been fully realised how completely all the works of Nature , however magnificent and vast , follow the same law of decay which we perceive in our own bodies and our own furniture ...
... natural processes are so slow that only of late has it been fully realised how completely all the works of Nature , however magnificent and vast , follow the same law of decay which we perceive in our own bodies and our own furniture ...
Page 197
... nature , graceful simplicity of expression , and aptness of allusion are to be noted in this volume , together with an eye for characteristic bits of life . No one who is contemplating a cruise in the Firth of Clyde should fail to take ...
... nature , graceful simplicity of expression , and aptness of allusion are to be noted in this volume , together with an eye for characteristic bits of life . No one who is contemplating a cruise in the Firth of Clyde should fail to take ...
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