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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... thought of by the rich Hungarian noble , who either squandered his revenue in rude and profuse hospitality on his estate , or involved himself in inextricable debt by indulging in the expensive vanities of Vienna or Pesth . The result ...
... thought of by the rich Hungarian noble , who either squandered his revenue in rude and profuse hospitality on his estate , or involved himself in inextricable debt by indulging in the expensive vanities of Vienna or Pesth . The result ...
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... thought only a petty farm , rarely lets any portion of it to a tenant ; but having erected a sufficient number of farm - houses , he places in each a person of his own selection , and pays him for cultivating the land . The capabilities ...
... thought only a petty farm , rarely lets any portion of it to a tenant ; but having erected a sufficient number of farm - houses , he places in each a person of his own selection , and pays him for cultivating the land . The capabilities ...
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... thought of turning its agricultural capabilities to any profitable use never of course entered their sluggish minds . Nothing could be more wild , savage , and desolate than the aspect of the Banat even in recent times . Immense ...
... thought of turning its agricultural capabilities to any profitable use never of course entered their sluggish minds . Nothing could be more wild , savage , and desolate than the aspect of the Banat even in recent times . Immense ...
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... when- ever the manufacturers thought it for their interest to demand them ; and other interests , which neither the manufacturers nor the the Government considered , have suffered in proportion . Per- 28 The Resources and.
... when- ever the manufacturers thought it for their interest to demand them ; and other interests , which neither the manufacturers nor the the Government considered , have suffered in proportion . Per- 28 The Resources and.
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... thought it not unworthy of him to speak of its ' trees , from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts , and of fowl , and of creeping things , and of fishes . ' Our ...
... thought it not unworthy of him to speak of its ' trees , from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts , and of fowl , and of creeping things , and of fishes . ' Our ...
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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.