The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 14; Volume 77Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1871 - American literature |
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... 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 , but the King of Satsuma began to look coldly ...
... 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 , but the King of Satsuma began to look coldly ...
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... passed out of the regions of truth into those of exaggeration , suppression , and fiction . " Writers on the present ... passing history of the countries in which they lived . The unfavorable side of the picture is supplied by the ...
... passed out of the regions of truth into those of exaggeration , suppression , and fiction . " Writers on the present ... passing history of the countries in which they lived . The unfavorable side of the picture is supplied by the ...
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... passed over into Kiusiu , and received the fealty of its kings . The appearance of Christianity , especially in the north of that island , was most flourishing . The Christian party , now the strongest , had gained the support of the ...
... passed over into Kiusiu , and received the fealty of its kings . The appearance of Christianity , especially in the north of that island , was most flourishing . The Christian party , now the strongest , had gained the support of the ...
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... Passing from the portrait to the original , we may recognize , or fancy that we recog- nize , the same general features . Sir ... passed forty - five years of scarcely interrupted prosperity . In the Religio Medici he in- dulges in some ...
... Passing from the portrait to the original , we may recognize , or fancy that we recog- nize , the same general features . Sir ... passed forty - five years of scarcely interrupted prosperity . In the Religio Medici he in- dulges in some ...
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... passed away on Friday , the 17th of March , will be mourned . by all who value education and who love literature . The brothers were born at Peebles , on the banks of the Tweed . Their father was a muslin - weaver , employing some ...
... passed away on Friday , the 17th of March , will be mourned . by all who value education and who love literature . The brothers were born at Peebles , on the banks of the Tweed . Their father was a muslin - weaver , employing some ...
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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...