The Planet, conducted by T. McNicollThomas M'Nicoll 1862 |
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... questions about the conversation which his arrival interrupts . We , at least , are resolved to retain our cheerful humour and shake hands all round . The author whose book is snubbed may be allowed to relieve himself by blessing our ...
... questions about the conversation which his arrival interrupts . We , at least , are resolved to retain our cheerful humour and shake hands all round . The author whose book is snubbed may be allowed to relieve himself by blessing our ...
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... question which occasion- ally rises in every mind , How far may the cultivated tastes and sympathies of religious people be safely indulged in the act of religious worship ? The development and growth of this delusive tendency is quite ...
... question which occasion- ally rises in every mind , How far may the cultivated tastes and sympathies of religious people be safely indulged in the act of religious worship ? The development and growth of this delusive tendency is quite ...
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... question is actually extended to the Lord's Prayer and the Creed itself . Of this ecclesiastical performance there is indeed a parallel , but no analogy of a warrantable kind . The singing of religious prayers may possibly be defended ...
... question is actually extended to the Lord's Prayer and the Creed itself . Of this ecclesiastical performance there is indeed a parallel , but no analogy of a warrantable kind . The singing of religious prayers may possibly be defended ...
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... question of aesthetic tendencies becomes complicated by the influence of doctrinal theories . Into the legitimate character of those theories we shall make no inquiry . Our present view embraces the whole of Protestant England ; no ...
... question of aesthetic tendencies becomes complicated by the influence of doctrinal theories . Into the legitimate character of those theories we shall make no inquiry . Our present view embraces the whole of Protestant England ; no ...
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... question of degree . While the necessity for order exists , and different tastes and temperaments exert their natural influence , there will always be scope for both in the sphere of sacred music and archi- tecture . Expedience will ...
... question of degree . While the necessity for order exists , and different tastes and temperaments exert their natural influence , there will always be scope for both in the sphere of sacred music and archi- tecture . Expedience will ...
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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...