The National Miscellany, Том 1National Miscellany, 1853 |
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... turn to a goodly host of able coadjutors prepared to aid us in our task . And to speak a few words in sober earnest , we at least can dare to promise as much as this ; that not a line containing lax or evil principles shall ever stain ...
... turn to a goodly host of able coadjutors prepared to aid us in our task . And to speak a few words in sober earnest , we at least can dare to promise as much as this ; that not a line containing lax or evil principles shall ever stain ...
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... turn and be led in their wanderings to the spot . Few probably are aware that the old tower is the actual keep of the Norman castle in which the empress Matilda took refuge from the usurper Stephen , where she was closely be- sieged for ...
... turn and be led in their wanderings to the spot . Few probably are aware that the old tower is the actual keep of the Norman castle in which the empress Matilda took refuge from the usurper Stephen , where she was closely be- sieged for ...
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... turn on the insecure and the changeable throne of public favour . The eye , the comb , the toes , and the tails of fowls , have now become in their turn the objects . of adoration . Like the bulls and serpents of heathen lands , they ...
... turn on the insecure and the changeable throne of public favour . The eye , the comb , the toes , and the tails of fowls , have now become in their turn the objects . of adoration . Like the bulls and serpents of heathen lands , they ...
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... turn our patients out of doors upon some bare common , and there bid them to get what literary food they can , to browse where there is nothing to eat , and to make soup out of flints ? If there is to be ardour in educating , surely ...
... turn our patients out of doors upon some bare common , and there bid them to get what literary food they can , to browse where there is nothing to eat , and to make soup out of flints ? If there is to be ardour in educating , surely ...
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... turn our attention to circumstances which render the condition of the slave less deplorable than the previous statement of facts would lead the reader to suppose . Indeed , if there were no mitigating influences at work , the system ...
... turn our attention to circumstances which render the condition of the slave less deplorable than the previous statement of facts would lead the reader to suppose . Indeed , if there were no mitigating influences at work , the system ...
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Сторінка 237 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Сторінка 19 - Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the fenced cities of Judah and took them.
Сторінка 405 - However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things ; which hath only this inconvenience attending it, that if a man's business be very great, and of various kinds, he must be obliged in proportion to carry a greater bundle of things upon his back, unless he can afford one or two strong servants to attend him.
Сторінка 405 - An expedient was therefore offered, that since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express the particular business they are to discourse on.
Сторінка 229 - ... professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness ; your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture ; your tenderness for the weak, the poor, the oppressed, the unhappy. To the best of his means and ability he comments on all the ordinary actions and passions of life almost. He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher, so to speak. Accordingly, as he finds, and speaks, and feels the truth best, we regard him, esteem him — sometimes love him.
Сторінка 6 - SONG. ON MAY MORNING. |0 W the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and...
Сторінка 82 - mong men, not mailed in scorn, But in the armour of a pure intent. Great duties are before me, and great songs, And whether crowned or crownless, when I fall, It matters not, so as God's work is done.
Сторінка 79 - THE lark is singing in the blinding sky, Hedges are white with May. The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride, And, in the fulness of his marriage joy, He decorates her tawny brow with shells, Retires a space, to see how fair she looks, Then proud runs up to kiss her.
Сторінка 240 - As a picture of manners the novel of "Tom Jones" is indeed exquisite: as a work of construction quite a wonder: the by-play of wisdom; the power of observation; the multiplied felicitous turns and thoughts; the varied character of the great Comic Epic; keep the reader in a perpetual admiration and curiosity.* But against Mr.
Сторінка 227 - Lectures were once useful ; but now, when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. If your attention fails, and you miss a part of the lecture, it is lost ; you cannot go back as you do upon a book.