The Eclectic Review, Volume 9; Volume 101Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood 1855 - English literature |
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... Greek and Anglican Christians , who have now attained high commands in the Turkish army . M. de Lamartine's work is a brilliant narrative . In addition to a competent acquaintance with the modern works of greatest authority on his ...
... Greek and Anglican Christians , who have now attained high commands in the Turkish army . M. de Lamartine's work is a brilliant narrative . In addition to a competent acquaintance with the modern works of greatest authority on his ...
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... Greek majority and the Turkish minority on the banks of the Bosphorus ? and what is the fate in store for Mahometanism in Europe ? ( Oriental scholarship and ethnological observation render it probable that the human family started , in ...
... Greek majority and the Turkish minority on the banks of the Bosphorus ? and what is the fate in store for Mahometanism in Europe ? ( Oriental scholarship and ethnological observation render it probable that the human family started , in ...
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... Greek goldsmith . For ten years , from the age of forty to fifty , he tried to accomplish his reforms by preaching in Mecca and its neighbourhood . After being nearly stoned to death , his spirit or his plans changed ; he resolved to ...
... Greek goldsmith . For ten years , from the age of forty to fifty , he tried to accomplish his reforms by preaching in Mecca and its neighbourhood . After being nearly stoned to death , his spirit or his plans changed ; he resolved to ...
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... Greek nobleman , returning from an expedition , was the same night waylaid , surprised , and defeated by Othman in the pass of Eremeni . Othman next attacked and seized Kara- Hissar , or the Black Fortress , which he made his capital ...
... Greek nobleman , returning from an expedition , was the same night waylaid , surprised , and defeated by Othman in the pass of Eremeni . Othman next attacked and seized Kara- Hissar , or the Black Fortress , which he made his capital ...
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... Greek girl of the island . The boats found in the bays of Kalolimno conveyed the Ottoman pirates to the island of Chio , renowned as the garden of the East , and for its odoriferous gums and lovely women . A nocturnal surprise ...
... Greek girl of the island . The boats found in the bays of Kalolimno conveyed the Ottoman pirates to the island of Chio , renowned as the garden of the East , and for its odoriferous gums and lovely women . A nocturnal surprise ...
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Page 413 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember...
Page 164 - When Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First reared the stage immortal Shakespeare rose: Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toiled after him in vain : His powerful strokes presiding Truth impressed And unresisted Passion stormed the breast.
Page 608 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly.
Page 143 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Page 280 - She sate by the pillar; we saw her clear: "Margaret, hist! come quick, we are here! Dear heart," I said, "we are long alone; The sea grows stormy, the little ones moan.
Page 611 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, — Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving — boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 86 - Tis some relief, that points not clearly known, Without much hazard may be let alone: And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb. For points obscure are of small use to learn: But common quiet is mankind's concern.
Page 610 - They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. "Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 303 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Page 87 - Who although he be God and Man, yet he is not two but one Christ; one, not by conversion of the godhead into flesh, but by taking of the manhood into God; one altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and Man is one Christ.