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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... matter for reflection in this history of the brief existence of the Turkish press . There are two journals published in Turkish and four in French in Con- stantinople , and no journal appears in English . A journal con- tributing to an ...
... matter for reflection in this history of the brief existence of the Turkish press . There are two journals published in Turkish and four in French in Con- stantinople , and no journal appears in English . A journal con- tributing to an ...
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... matter affecting life as well as property , must be charged against the maker , and culpable ignorance or inattention against the buyer . With these defective and useless instruments the rater has nothing to do ; they are excluded ...
... matter affecting life as well as property , must be charged against the maker , and culpable ignorance or inattention against the buyer . With these defective and useless instruments the rater has nothing to do ; they are excluded ...
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... matter , individual and national interests , and the obligations of humanity and religion , enforce the dictates of reason and the demands of science . While all the resources of experimental science are engaged to improve the ...
... matter , individual and national interests , and the obligations of humanity and religion , enforce the dictates of reason and the demands of science . While all the resources of experimental science are engaged to improve the ...
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... matter more fully , the Board of Trade instituted inquiries into the cause of the difference between the direction ... matters but little where she may be , for the effect is everywhere the same under the same circumstances . Dr ...
... matter more fully , the Board of Trade instituted inquiries into the cause of the difference between the direction ... matters but little where she may be , for the effect is everywhere the same under the same circumstances . Dr ...
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... matter , and abandon the custom of adjusting ships ' compasses ; for it is better to trust to the probable detection of an error in the direction of a com- pass which is free to move , than to place faith in one which is held in the ...
... matter , and abandon the custom of adjusting ships ' compasses ; for it is better to trust to the probable detection of an error in the direction of a com- pass which is free to move , than to place faith in one which is held in the ...
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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.