The Modern Review, Volume 5J. Clarke & Company, 1884 - Religion |
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Page 75
... present day . Routine may be dull and cramping to the powers , but it is at any rate better than anarchy . And that the present state of girls ' educa- tion , so far as relates to the choice of subjects to be learnt , is altogether ...
... present day . Routine may be dull and cramping to the powers , but it is at any rate better than anarchy . And that the present state of girls ' educa- tion , so far as relates to the choice of subjects to be learnt , is altogether ...
Page 77
... present of finding a sufficient number of mistresses well trained in classics and mathematics , we come to the more serious drawback that there is a great danger at present of putting a severer strain upon girls than their physical ...
... present of finding a sufficient number of mistresses well trained in classics and mathematics , we come to the more serious drawback that there is a great danger at present of putting a severer strain upon girls than their physical ...
Page 83
... present time of transition is passed and the method which has been found fittest has alone survived , we may hope that the education of girls will be of a kind to develop those capacities and tastes which are desirable in a woman's life ...
... present time of transition is passed and the method which has been found fittest has alone survived , we may hope that the education of girls will be of a kind to develop those capacities and tastes which are desirable in a woman's life ...
Page 89
... present hurry and strife may be mitigated and our aims adapted to possibilities . In the meantime a most fortunate accident -if such it can be called - has occurred to militate against any tendencies to overwork connected with the ...
... present hurry and strife may be mitigated and our aims adapted to possibilities . In the meantime a most fortunate accident -if such it can be called - has occurred to militate against any tendencies to overwork connected with the ...
Page 93
... present date , there have been no less than fifteen Genevan savants who have belonged to the Royal Society of London . Delolme , Sir Francis d'Ivernois , Mallet - Dupan are publicists who have served the Liberal cause in England , while ...
... present date , there have been no less than fifteen Genevan savants who have belonged to the Royal Society of London . Delolme , Sir Francis d'Ivernois , Mallet - Dupan are publicists who have served the Liberal cause in England , while ...
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Page 275 - If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul.
Page 327 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak...
Page 188 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Page 291 - God with man no more has been revealed to the nineteenth century than to the first, or to London than to the wildest parish in the Hebrides.
Page 9 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 15 - Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the earth is mine : And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Page 236 - For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them , and not pull them down ; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord : and they shall be my people, and I will be their God : for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Page 657 - In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer.
Page 416 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
Page 292 - She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world ; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all.