Littell's Living Age, Volume 142Living Age Company Incorporated, 1879 |
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... remarkable indications in every country of the prevailing affections of the period , are a host of Biblical appellations which in the mother country , even amongst Non- conformists , have almost become extinct : Kind , Light , Lively ...
... remarkable indications in every country of the prevailing affections of the period , are a host of Biblical appellations which in the mother country , even amongst Non- conformists , have almost become extinct : Kind , Light , Lively ...
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... remarkable position of the American Methodists . First , for the more educated classes the Arminianism of Wes- ley , to which in their uncultured way the transatlantic Methodists still adhered , furnished some kind of escape from the ...
... remarkable position of the American Methodists . First , for the more educated classes the Arminianism of Wes- ley , to which in their uncultured way the transatlantic Methodists still adhered , furnished some kind of escape from the ...
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... remarkable as to deserve special notice . When Nicholas Ferrar , the mo- nastic recluse of Gidding , sent a friend to minister to the dying pastor of Bemerton , George Herbert presented to Ferrar the manuscript of his poems . When ...
... remarkable as to deserve special notice . When Nicholas Ferrar , the mo- nastic recluse of Gidding , sent a friend to minister to the dying pastor of Bemerton , George Herbert presented to Ferrar the manuscript of his poems . When ...
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... remarkable pre - Renaissance furniture which adorned his salon , on the walls of which hung some pictures of the Cologne school , which , whether they were " priceless , " as he called them , or not , had cost him a pretty price at an ...
... remarkable pre - Renaissance furniture which adorned his salon , on the walls of which hung some pictures of the Cologne school , which , whether they were " priceless , " as he called them , or not , had cost him a pretty price at an ...
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... remarkable storm of the 26th of June , 1875. On that occasion a waterspout burst on the mountains behind Buda , and together with wind and hail destroyed a considerable amount of property in the town and neighborhood , causing also the ...
... remarkable storm of the 26th of June , 1875. On that occasion a waterspout burst on the mountains behind Buda , and together with wind and hail destroyed a considerable amount of property in the town and neighborhood , causing also the ...
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Page 300 - I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils ; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay ; Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Page 302 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Page 170 - Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer ; and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Page 209 - tis heard no more — Oh ! lyre divine, what daring spirit Wakes thee now? Though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air...
Page 302 - ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still...
Page 171 - And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.
Page 150 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand; This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 302 - Leave to the Nightingale her shady wood; A privacy of glorious light is thine ; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with rapture more divine ; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home ! WORDSWORTH.
Page 11 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 265 - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result; and whose members have, for their proper outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another.