The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 14; Volume 77Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1871 - American literature |
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... Letters " gen- erally used is that printed at Mayence , a reprint of that of Rome , 1596. There are several French ... letter of Xavier there cited , and with Lucena , " Vida do Padre S. Francisco de Xavier , ' tomo i . livro ii . cap ...
... Letters " gen- erally used is that printed at Mayence , a reprint of that of Rome , 1596. There are several French ... letter of Xavier there cited , and with Lucena , " Vida do Padre S. Francisco de Xavier , ' tomo i . livro ii . cap ...
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... letter , dated Cochin , 14th January , 1549 , Xavier enumerates twenty Jesuit missiona- ries already in the Indies ; four of whom were at the Moluccas , two at Malacca , ten in India , and four at Socotora . travels of Marco Polo , had ...
... letter , dated Cochin , 14th January , 1549 , Xavier enumerates twenty Jesuit missiona- ries already in the Indies ; four of whom were at the Moluccas , two at Malacca , ten in India , and four at Socotora . travels of Marco Polo , had ...
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... letter is dated nearly a year after ; he had passed the time in studying Japanese , into which language he had translated the principal articles of the Creed , and a short account of the Creation . He had made about a hundred converts ...
... letter is dated nearly a year after ; he had passed the time in studying Japanese , into which language he had translated the principal articles of the Creed , and a short account of the Creation . He had made about a hundred converts ...
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... letters , * never alludes to any of the astounding miracles so freely ascribed to him by his biograph- ers of later date ... letter dated Cochin , 12th January , 1544 . tianity made such progress that the num- ber of converts 6 [ July ...
... letters , * never alludes to any of the astounding miracles so freely ascribed to him by his biograph- ers of later date ... letter dated Cochin , 12th January , 1544 . tianity made such progress that the num- ber of converts 6 [ July ...
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... Letters , to open those pages without the conviction that we have passed out of the regions of truth into those of exaggeration , suppression , and fiction . " Writers on the present condition of Japan have entirely neglected these ...
... Letters , to open those pages without the conviction that we have passed out of the regions of truth into those of exaggeration , suppression , and fiction . " Writers on the present condition of Japan have entirely neglected these ...
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Page 30 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 330 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 76 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 78 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 25 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Page 19 - All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again ; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.
Page 22 - Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast...
Page 85 - Before his work be done; but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But...
Page 225 - Macbeth', which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a strange perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable.
Page 176 - There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength that is there...