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... ment of facts ( in the History of the Roman Empire ) does not want order : it contains just remarks , useful reflec- tions , and good feeling in the course of the narrative ; but the style is heavy , diffuse , generally careless ...
... ment of facts ( in the History of the Roman Empire ) does not want order : it contains just remarks , useful reflec- tions , and good feeling in the course of the narrative ; but the style is heavy , diffuse , generally careless ...
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... ment ; for many shells that were formerly of extreme rarity , are now more plentiful , and there are often discovered what are denominated new shells , because not known before , but though concealed so long , are as an- cient as the ...
... ment ; for many shells that were formerly of extreme rarity , are now more plentiful , and there are often discovered what are denominated new shells , because not known before , but though concealed so long , are as an- cient as the ...
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... ment , interesting alike to the learned and the unlearned reader . Surely that book which is more than any other prophetical of our Redeemer - that to which His references were more fre- quently made than to any other , and with a ...
... ment , interesting alike to the learned and the unlearned reader . Surely that book which is more than any other prophetical of our Redeemer - that to which His references were more fre- quently made than to any other , and with a ...
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... ment , in the shape of an inverted pediment , with concave sides , richly carved , and pen- dentive six inches from the ceiling . Each of these projections terminates nearly in a beam intersects the ceiling , in the centre , point ...
... ment , in the shape of an inverted pediment , with concave sides , richly carved , and pen- dentive six inches from the ceiling . Each of these projections terminates nearly in a beam intersects the ceiling , in the centre , point ...
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... ment of a disappointed Frenchman : who , by the manner in which he has gulled our reformer , has plainly shown how he would have gulled the Trus- tees of the British Museum , had they not been old birds - too wary to be caught with ...
... ment of a disappointed Frenchman : who , by the manner in which he has gulled our reformer , has plainly shown how he would have gulled the Trus- tees of the British Museum , had they not been old birds - too wary to be caught with ...
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Page 22 - Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Page 19 - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she: Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
Page 19 - O, speak again, bright angel ! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Page 54 - With regard to poetry in general ', I am convinced, the more I think of it, that he and all of us — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I, — are all in the wrong, one as much as another ; that we are upon a wrong revolutionary poetical system, or systems, not worth a damn in itself, and from which none but Rogers and Crabbe are free ; and that the present and next generations will finally be of this opinion.
Page 425 - And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me?
Page 425 - And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned...
Page 19 - O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Page 6 - That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. 8 And Zaccheus stood, and said unto the Lord ; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.