The Planet, conducted by T. McNicollThomas M'Nicoll 1862 |
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... knowledge of Scripture supplies , occurs in reference to idolatry ; namely , the manufacture of silver shrines for the votaries of Diana of Ephesus . Yes , all the trade in church furniture and finery was engrossed by Demetrius , and ...
... knowledge of Scripture supplies , occurs in reference to idolatry ; namely , the manufacture of silver shrines for the votaries of Diana of Ephesus . Yes , all the trade in church furniture and finery was engrossed by Demetrius , and ...
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... knowledge of the mine . It was a stumbling and tremulous attempt to thread their way , not along a valley of deathly shadows , but through the mortal darkness of death's own mazy chambers . Bruised , breathless , and in an agony of ...
... knowledge of the mine . It was a stumbling and tremulous attempt to thread their way , not along a valley of deathly shadows , but through the mortal darkness of death's own mazy chambers . Bruised , breathless , and in an agony of ...
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... knowledge of the student . The tendency to aim at mere scholarship and technical knowledge is one which was in process of correction by the judicious modifications which have been made by the Government , from year to year , in the ...
... knowledge of the student . The tendency to aim at mere scholarship and technical knowledge is one which was in process of correction by the judicious modifications which have been made by the Government , from year to year , in the ...
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... and fellows by their patronage of large endowments , eccle- siastical and scholastic , -in livings and schools . No fallacy is more transparent or more monstrous than that which assumes that knowledge 48 The Education Controversy .
... and fellows by their patronage of large endowments , eccle- siastical and scholastic , -in livings and schools . No fallacy is more transparent or more monstrous than that which assumes that knowledge 48 The Education Controversy .
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... knowledge has been implanted in the population by founding schools ....... The teachers settled in elemen- tary schools , therefore , did not expect that the arbitrary and inde- fensible application of a doctrine of political economy ...
... knowledge has been implanted in the population by founding schools ....... The teachers settled in elemen- tary schools , therefore , did not expect that the arbitrary and inde- fensible application of a doctrine of political economy ...
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Page 134 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Page 265 - Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her...
Page 301 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 266 - God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 322 - While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive. No generous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He asked for bread, and he received a stone.
Page 141 - If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Page 265 - After salutation and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose such pastime in the park? Smiling she answered me, ' I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas I good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 269 - Therefore, to ride comely; to run fair at the tilt or ring; to play at all weapons; to shoot fair in bow or surely in gun; to vault lustily; to run, to leap, to wrestle, to swim; to dance comely; to sing, and play...
Page 266 - It is your shame (I speak to you all, you young gentlemen of England) that one maid should go beyond you all, in excellency of learning and knowledge of divers tongues.
Page 266 - ... else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips...