The Quarterly Review, Volumen218William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1913 |
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... whole foundation on which my life was con- structed fell down . All my happiness was to have been found in the continual pursuit of this end . The end had ceased to charm , and how could there ever again be any interest in the means ? I ...
... whole foundation on which my life was con- structed fell down . All my happiness was to have been found in the continual pursuit of this end . The end had ceased to charm , and how could there ever again be any interest in the means ? I ...
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... whole , which was intended to be a record not of fact , but of spiritual experience . What is more , the diary , for the most part , exists not in the original copies but in digests , carefully made by Mather's own hand , preserving ...
... whole , which was intended to be a record not of fact , but of spiritual experience . What is more , the diary , for the most part , exists not in the original copies but in digests , carefully made by Mather's own hand , preserving ...
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... whole diary . It is a record of God's dealings with a sinner to whom perhaps has been granted the unmerited grace of salvation to whom surely have been granted glimpses of what that salvation might be like , in its infinite , recon ...
... whole diary . It is a record of God's dealings with a sinner to whom perhaps has been granted the unmerited grace of salvation to whom surely have been granted glimpses of what that salvation might be like , in its infinite , recon ...
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... whole life . ' The Angel of Bethesda ' is a treatise on medicine , little more systematic than the ' Magnalia , ' but more compact . The manuscript comprises 410 quarto note pages , evidently written and added to at various times . As ...
... whole life . ' The Angel of Bethesda ' is a treatise on medicine , little more systematic than the ' Magnalia , ' but more compact . The manuscript comprises 410 quarto note pages , evidently written and added to at various times . As ...
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... whole range of his writings , yet whose works demand more learned editing than perhaps any other classic of his rank . 6 The issue of the Prose Works ' in twelve volumes , under the skilful editorship of Mr Temple Scott and his ...
... whole range of his writings , yet whose works demand more learned editing than perhaps any other classic of his rank . 6 The issue of the Prose Works ' in twelve volumes , under the skilful editorship of Mr Temple Scott and his ...
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Página 52 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
Página 10 - In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself: 'Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
Página 446 - As regards bays, the distance of three miles shall be measured from a straight line drawn across the bay, in the part nearest the entrance, at the first point where the width does not exceed ten miles.
Página 446 - Convention, the object of which is to regulate the police of the fisheries in the North Sea outside territorial waters, shall apply to the subjects of the High Contracting Parties.
Página 64 - God send you through your law-suit, and your reference. And remember that riches are nine parts in ten of all that is good in life, and health is the tenth ; drinking coffee comes long after, and yet it is the eleventh ; but without the two former you cannot drink it right...
Página 519 - Versailles • gives suppers twice a week ; has every thing new read to her ; makes new songs and epigrams, ay, admirably, and remembers every one that has been made these fourscore years. She corresponds with Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or anybody, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers.
Página 11 - Memoires," and came to the passage which relates his father's death, the distressed position of the family, and the sudden inspiration by which he, then a mere boy, felt and made them feel that he would be everything to them — would supply the place of all that they had lost. A vivid conception of the scene and its feelings came over me, and I was moved to tears. From this moment my burden grew lighter. The oppression of the thought that all feeling was dead within me, was gone.
Página 11 - I frequently asked myself, if I could, or if I was bound to go on living when life must be passed in this manner. I generally answered to myself that I did not think I could possibly bear it beyond a year.
Página 106 - I faced old James and all his court the other day at St. Cloud. Vive Guillaume ! You never saw such a strange figure as the old bully is, [James II.] lean, worn, and rivelled, not unlike Neale, the projector. The queen looks very melancholy, but otherwise well enough : their equipages are all very ragged and contemptible.
Página 376 - Pray now, buy some : I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. Aut. Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burthen and how she longed to eat adders