The Quarterly Review, Volume 119John Murray, 1866 - English literature |
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... character of the population appeared to be eminently favourable for an experiment being made for the improvement of their social state by means of commerce , and for their ultimate conversion to Christianity . These views received the ...
... character of the population appeared to be eminently favourable for an experiment being made for the improvement of their social state by means of commerce , and for their ultimate conversion to Christianity . These views received the ...
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... character , made still more so by the variety and beauty of the birds : - - ' The birds , from the novelty of their notes and plumage , arrest the attention of a traveller perhaps more than the peculiarities of the scenery . The dark ...
... character , made still more so by the variety and beauty of the birds : - - ' The birds , from the novelty of their notes and plumage , arrest the attention of a traveller perhaps more than the peculiarities of the scenery . The dark ...
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... character , will be read with interest : - ' It is rather a hopeless task to endeavour to convey an idea of it in words , since as was remarked on the spot , an accomplished painter , even by a number of views , could but impart a faint ...
... character , will be read with interest : - ' It is rather a hopeless task to endeavour to convey an idea of it in words , since as was remarked on the spot , an accomplished painter , even by a number of views , could but impart a faint ...
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... character of the rocks in the central part of the continent is generally that of a coarse grey sandstone , lying horizontally , or only very slightly inclined . Within this extensive sandstone deposit is a coal - field of vast but ...
... character of the rocks in the central part of the continent is generally that of a coarse grey sandstone , lying horizontally , or only very slightly inclined . Within this extensive sandstone deposit is a coal - field of vast but ...
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... across Africa , ' - a remarkable record of courageous endurance and a most amusing picture of African manners and character . great great Albert Nyanza confirms us in that opinion ; for 24 Livingstone's Zambesi and its Tributaries .
... across Africa , ' - a remarkable record of courageous endurance and a most amusing picture of African manners and character . great great Albert Nyanza confirms us in that opinion ; for 24 Livingstone's Zambesi and its Tributaries .
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Page 222 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 525 - As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire: so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 87 - 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 400 - ... have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists: there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick and the Celtick, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit; and the old Persian might be added to the same family, if this were the place for discussing any question concerning...
Page 146 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Page 521 - And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist : some, Elias ; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
Page 524 - If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother : but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him. and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
Page 517 - To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel.
Page 270 - sacredness of property' is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.
Page 104 - ... a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world, and thus to establish a current of fresh and true ideas.