Retrospective Review, Volume 9Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1824 - English literature |
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... society , beginning with the life of the founder , whose example excited the spirit and whose Institute pointed the aim of the order ; and we flatter ourselves , that if we make no discoveries , and produce no very important result , we ...
... society , beginning with the life of the founder , whose example excited the spirit and whose Institute pointed the aim of the order ; and we flatter ourselves , that if we make no discoveries , and produce no very important result , we ...
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... society should not read the works of Erasmus . Being re - established in health , he renewed his auste- rities , but for the sake of study , retrenched a part of his seven hours of prayer . John Pascal , a devout youth , the son of the ...
... society should not read the works of Erasmus . Being re - established in health , he renewed his auste- rities , but for the sake of study , retrenched a part of his seven hours of prayer . John Pascal , a devout youth , the son of the ...
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... society for that end , and that he was to chuse them himself out of the University at Paris ; for the three disciples he had converted in Spain had deserted him . In casting his eyes around him with this view , the man he fixed upon for ...
... society for that end , and that he was to chuse them himself out of the University at Paris ; for the three disciples he had converted in Spain had deserted him . In casting his eyes around him with this view , the man he fixed upon for ...
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... society to Faber , he departed for his native country ; making use , how- ever , of a horse , on account of the weakness of his foot . He went to Azpetia , a town near the castle of Loyola , where the clergy , hearing of his approach ...
... society to Faber , he departed for his native country ; making use , how- ever , of a horse , on account of the weakness of his foot . He went to Azpetia , a town near the castle of Loyola , where the clergy , hearing of his approach ...
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... . During his journey he was favoured with a vision , which , as it is by some of his biographers supposed to have con- * Maff . L. II . c . 4 . firmed , if not suggested the name of the society Life of Ignatius Loyola . 51.
... . During his journey he was favoured with a vision , which , as it is by some of his biographers supposed to have con- * Maff . L. II . c . 4 . firmed , if not suggested the name of the society Life of Ignatius Loyola . 51.
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Page 314 - Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 31 - WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 12 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 314 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 361 - I know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Page 314 - Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side? • There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast.— The desert and illimitable air,— Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 19 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Page 12 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Page 13 - To be still searching what we know not, by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional) this is the golden rule in Theology as well as in Arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a church; not the forced and outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds.
Page 364 - Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in such harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune those spheres above, What art thou but a harbinger of woe? Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more, But orphans...