Excelsior: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature, Volumes 1-2James Hamilton James Nisbet and Company, Berners Street, 1854 |
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... the Abbey missals are still living , probably not a person in the town can handle a pencil , although Raphael and Michael Angelo are at this moment painting in Italy . So strangely in this age does the light fall in patches , as in.
... the Abbey missals are still living , probably not a person in the town can handle a pencil , although Raphael and Michael Angelo are at this moment painting in Italy . So strangely in this age does the light fall in patches , as in.
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... Italy or Greece , or in ancient Britain , we can scarcely see how the Saviour could have made His meaning understood , or how He could have demonstrated His celestial mission . Believing in a thousand deities , -believing , too , that ...
... Italy or Greece , or in ancient Britain , we can scarcely see how the Saviour could have made His meaning understood , or how He could have demonstrated His celestial mission . Believing in a thousand deities , -believing , too , that ...
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... Italy , and the Mexico of ancient days , are still well known ; for their structures were stone , and their own story was engraven on them . ancient Britain has vanished . A fragment of pottery , a hatchet of flint , a funeral urn is ...
... Italy , and the Mexico of ancient days , are still well known ; for their structures were stone , and their own story was engraven on them . ancient Britain has vanished . A fragment of pottery , a hatchet of flint , a funeral urn is ...
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... Italy can sing ; but there is no Dutch Shakspeare , no German Newton , no Gallic Watt , no Tuscan Wellington . It is the favour of Providence , and it is the Anglo - Saxon felicity , that British mind is capable of such manifold ...
... Italy can sing ; but there is no Dutch Shakspeare , no German Newton , no Gallic Watt , no Tuscan Wellington . It is the favour of Providence , and it is the Anglo - Saxon felicity , that British mind is capable of such manifold ...
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... Italy , and may well make the Lake of Como shiver . On the one side the land of Gustavus and Charles XII . gives him the cold shoulder ; whilst on the other side he consoles his unaccustomed palate with the honey of the Chersonesus and ...
... Italy , and may well make the Lake of Como shiver . On the one side the land of Gustavus and Charles XII . gives him the cold shoulder ; whilst on the other side he consoles his unaccustomed palate with the honey of the Chersonesus and ...
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Page 370 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 391 - Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?
Page 83 - The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 402 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jaeet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of tlie General History of the World...
Page 100 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Page 393 - When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick : 17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
Page 139 - For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
Page 299 - My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. * He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
Page 145 - He is the chief of the ways of God : he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
Page 190 - Seeing then that we have a great High-priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.