The Saturday Magazine ..., Volúmenes4-5John William Parker, 1834 |
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... English . It would give us pleasure , did our limits allow us , to dwell on the amiable points of character which most travellers agree in assigning to the Florentines : we mean their gentleness and courtesy to strangers , as well as ...
... English . It would give us pleasure , did our limits allow us , to dwell on the amiable points of character which most travellers agree in assigning to the Florentines : we mean their gentleness and courtesy to strangers , as well as ...
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... English Saxons is too little known to us for its stages to be distinguished , or its progress described . It appears to have been of a very mixed nature , and to have been long in existence . Some of the objects of their adoration ...
... English Saxons is too little known to us for its stages to be distinguished , or its progress described . It appears to have been of a very mixed nature , and to have been long in existence . Some of the objects of their adoration ...
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... English architecture , con- taining some curious monuments . St. Philip's , erected in 1725 , is in the Grecian style , and occupies the centre of a spacious area , surrounded by handsome modern buildings . St. George's was built in ...
... English architecture , con- taining some curious monuments . St. Philip's , erected in 1725 , is in the Grecian style , and occupies the centre of a spacious area , surrounded by handsome modern buildings . St. George's was built in ...
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... English tools and workmanship . " After quoting thus largely from Bishop Sumner's work , we have to observe that the whole chapter ( Chap . III . , Part . II . ) is well worth a perusal , with a view to the point before us . When , then ...
... English tools and workmanship . " After quoting thus largely from Bishop Sumner's work , we have to observe that the whole chapter ( Chap . III . , Part . II . ) is well worth a perusal , with a view to the point before us . When , then ...
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... English nobleman , who purchased it of the inn - keeper , with the intention of transporting it to England , and re- erecting it in his park . The owner was just pre- paring to pull it down , when an order from the Papal government ...
... English nobleman , who purchased it of the inn - keeper , with the intention of transporting it to England , and re- erecting it in his park . The owner was just pre- paring to pull it down , when an order from the Papal government ...
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Página 8 - And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Página 110 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 136 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Página 7 - What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home! How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news to catch some casual intelligence of this rover of the deep! How has expectation darkened into anxiety, anxiety into dread, and dread into despair! Alas! not one memento shall ever return for love to cherish. All that shall ever be known, is that she sailed from her port,
Página 110 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Página 187 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Página 72 - Have children climbed those knees and kissed that face? What was thy name and station, age and race? Statue of flesh — immortal of the dead ! Imperishable type of evanescence ! Posthumous man, who quitt'st thy narrow bed, And standest undecayed within our presence, Thou wilt hear nothing till the judgment morning, When the great trump shall thrill tliee with its warning.
Página 14 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 148 - THOU art gone to the grave — but we will not deplore thee; Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb, The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.
Página 61 - The naked negro, panting at the line. Boasts of his golden sands, and palmy wine; Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave.