The Quarterly Review, Volume 114William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1863 - English literature |
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... look like encampments , for the houses are built low and apart from each other like tents . If these people are so distinctly marked , even among the many diversified races of the Austrian empire , the same may be equally said of much ...
... look like encampments , for the houses are built low and apart from each other like tents . If these people are so distinctly marked , even among the many diversified races of the Austrian empire , the same may be equally said of much ...
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... look like islands risen from the deep . These wide - stretching plains formed the first settled home of the Hungarian race in Europe . The far - famed Banat is another of the districts of which the produce is extraordinary . This great ...
... look like islands risen from the deep . These wide - stretching plains formed the first settled home of the Hungarian race in Europe . The far - famed Banat is another of the districts of which the produce is extraordinary . This great ...
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... look to foreign countries . The plains of Hungary are formed by nature for the growth of corn . Their present production can be increased immensely , and all that is wanted is a cheap com- munication with the sea and a moderate rate of ...
... look to foreign countries . The plains of Hungary are formed by nature for the growth of corn . Their present production can be increased immensely , and all that is wanted is a cheap com- munication with the sea and a moderate rate of ...
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... he has espoused . To his character , as displayed in his latest acts and declarations , Austria may confidently look for that that consistency by which those unseemly conflicts between the Parliament 40 The Resources and.
... he has espoused . To his character , as displayed in his latest acts and declarations , Austria may confidently look for that that consistency by which those unseemly conflicts between the Parliament 40 The Resources and.
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... look with no degree of anxious sus- picion upon attempts to discover the truth , provided those attempts be conducted with honest integrity of purpose , with fair argument , and sound deduction . It is not our intention upon the present ...
... look with no degree of anxious sus- picion upon attempts to discover the truth , provided those attempts be conducted with honest integrity of purpose , with fair argument , and sound deduction . It is not our intention upon the present ...
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Page 188 - his own bitterness ; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Page 60 - Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
Page 63 - And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Page 238 - And here I prophesy ; — This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 187 - And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? "For the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Page 209 - That the dead are seen no more, said Imlac, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which...
Page 50 - Tarsus held, or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th' ocean stream: Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 153 - This rambling propensity strengthened with my years. Books of voyages and travels became my passion, and in devouring their contents, I neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander about the...
Page 74 - And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 70 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.