The Quarterly Review, Volume 128John Murray, 1870 - English literature |
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... taken place during the last few years , more particularly in connection with Railway and Finance Companies , would furnish ample proofs , if proofs were needed , that this is no exaggerated statement . But while want of knowledge , and ...
... taken place during the last few years , more particularly in connection with Railway and Finance Companies , would furnish ample proofs , if proofs were needed , that this is no exaggerated statement . But while want of knowledge , and ...
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... taken without much regard to quality ; proposals rejected by established offices were readily accepted by the new ones , for business of some kind must be done , because if there were no business to show it was clear that there would be ...
... taken without much regard to quality ; proposals rejected by established offices were readily accepted by the new ones , for business of some kind must be done , because if there were no business to show it was clear that there would be ...
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... taken that the parties associated under the provisions of an Act of Parliament for the purpose of assuring lives are using their powers honestly , and properly applying the funds intrusted to them with that express object ? When the ...
... taken that the parties associated under the provisions of an Act of Parliament for the purpose of assuring lives are using their powers honestly , and properly applying the funds intrusted to them with that express object ? When the ...
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... taken by the States legislatures to regulate and check the operations of Life Assurance Companies , there is reason to doubt whether they are in reality in anything like so sound a financial condition as the average of British offices ...
... taken by the States legislatures to regulate and check the operations of Life Assurance Companies , there is reason to doubt whether they are in reality in anything like so sound a financial condition as the average of British offices ...
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... taken before the Correctional Tribunal for obstructing the thoroughfare of the Pont Neuf , the magistrate said to him , ' Sirrah ! how is it you draw such crowds about you , and extract so much money from them in selling your ...
... taken before the Correctional Tribunal for obstructing the thoroughfare of the Pont Neuf , the magistrate said to him , ' Sirrah ! how is it you draw such crowds about you , and extract so much money from them in selling your ...
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Page 383 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 386 - Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind...
Page 336 - It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft and gentle and pure and penitent and good speaks to him for ever out of his English bible It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not a protestant with one spark of religiousness about him, whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon bible...
Page 13 - as munny as breaks into 'ouses an' steals, Them as 'as coats to their backs an' taakes their regular meals. Noa, but it's them as niver knaws wheer a meal's to be 'ad. Taake my word for it, Sammy, the poor in a loomp is bad. XIII. Them or thir feythers, tha sees, mun 'a bean a laazy lot, Fur work mun 'a gone to the gittin
Page 13 - Of ever-shifting sand, and far away The phantom circle of a moaning sea. There the pursuer could pursue no more, And he that fled no further fly the King...
Page 331 - Bible: Tindale's, Matthew's, Coverdale's, Whitchurch's, Geneva. 15. Besides the said directors before mentioned, three or four of the most ancient and grave divines in either of the universities, not employed in translating, to be assigned by the Vice-Chancellor upon conference with the rest of the Heads to be overseers of the translations, as well Hebrew as Greek, for the better observation of the fourth rule above specified.
Page 338 - Another thing we think good to admonish thee of, gentle Reader, that we have not tied ourselves to an uniformity of phrasing, or to an identity of words, as some peradventure would wish that we had done, because they observe, that some learned men somewhere have been as exact as they could that way. Truly, that we might not vary from the sense of that which we had translated before, if the word signified the same thing in both places, (for there be...
Page 10 - Redder than any rose, a joy to me. For now I knew the veil had been withdrawn. Then in a moment when they blazed again Opening, I saw the least of little stars Down on the waste, and straight beyond the star I saw the spiritual city and all her spires And gateways in a glory like one pearl — • No larger, tho...
Page 455 - Till the last trumpet ; for charitable prayers, Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her : Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants, Her maiden strewments and the bringing home Of bell and burial.
Page 311 - I defy the Pope and all his laws ... if God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scriptures than thou doest.