The Living Age, Volume 213E. Littell & Company, 1897 |
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... interest of a remarkable and powerful character . Before the end of May , in the midst of his own efforts and preparation , he wrote to Lord Can- ning to point out that the desperateness of our position might be measured by the rising ...
... interest of a remarkable and powerful character . Before the end of May , in the midst of his own efforts and preparation , he wrote to Lord Can- ning to point out that the desperateness of our position might be measured by the rising ...
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... interest felt in through which it was essential that the India as an integral portion of the em- british should pass before they fully pire , will also make themselves felt as comprehended their real position in the factors of the ...
... interest felt in through which it was essential that the India as an integral portion of the em- british should pass before they fully pire , will also make themselves felt as comprehended their real position in the factors of the ...
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... interest as long as our Indian army lasts - namely , the grand entry of Lord Canning into Lucknow on the 22d October , 1859 ; and the proc- lamation of her Majesty as empress of India on the 1st January , 1877. Lord Roberts took a ...
... interest as long as our Indian army lasts - namely , the grand entry of Lord Canning into Lucknow on the 22d October , 1859 ; and the proc- lamation of her Majesty as empress of India on the 1st January , 1877. Lord Roberts took a ...
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... interest are nothing ? How stands the case of Crete in rela- tion to Greece ? Do what you will by the might of brute power , " a man's a man for a ' that , " and in respect of everything that makes a man to be a man , every Cretan is a ...
... interest are nothing ? How stands the case of Crete in rela- tion to Greece ? Do what you will by the might of brute power , " a man's a man for a ' that , " and in respect of everything that makes a man to be a man , every Cretan is a ...
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... interest in history amongst us . The nature of political questions , and the tendency of thought about social questions , have given a decided impulse in this direction . In small towns and villages historical subjects are amongst the ...
... interest in history amongst us . The nature of political questions , and the tendency of thought about social questions , have given a decided impulse in this direction . In small towns and villages historical subjects are amongst the ...
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Page 283 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
Page 293 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too...
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Page 291 - To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
Page 291 - IN a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity: The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them; Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime.
Page 269 - Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; and afterwards that which is spiritual.
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Page 227 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Page 93 - Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.