National Review, Volume 12Robert Theobold, 1861 |
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... reason why they might not have been born in any one of the nations into which the civilised modern world is divided as well as in another . The universal ele- ments of their character and their intelligence override and ob- literate the ...
... reason why they might not have been born in any one of the nations into which the civilised modern world is divided as well as in another . The universal ele- ments of their character and their intelligence override and ob- literate the ...
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... reason or deter- minate purpose , on hearing of the king's flight to Varennes . One passage in the Mémoires relating to this period is so indi- cative of certain features of Chateaubriand , that we must turn aside for a moment to call ...
... reason or deter- minate purpose , on hearing of the king's flight to Varennes . One passage in the Mémoires relating to this period is so indi- cative of certain features of Chateaubriand , that we must turn aside for a moment to call ...
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... reason for it , are summed up in this sen- tence ; the Essai says : " Dieu , répondez - vous , vous a fait libre . Ce n'est pas là la question . A - t - il prévu que je tomberais , que je serais à jamais malheureux ? Oui ...
... reason for it , are summed up in this sen- tence ; the Essai says : " Dieu , répondez - vous , vous a fait libre . Ce n'est pas là la question . A - t - il prévu que je tomberais , que je serais à jamais malheureux ? Oui ...
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... reason was not convinced , but his heart was deeply touched ; the conception of the work was like a ray of light and peace to him ; and its plan was in strict conformity with its origin . He threw himself with feverish enthusiasm into ...
... reason was not convinced , but his heart was deeply touched ; the conception of the work was like a ray of light and peace to him ; and its plan was in strict conformity with its origin . He threw himself with feverish enthusiasm into ...
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... reason and to beauty - a worship which had done nothing but shed blood , enthral the world , and delay the happiness and enlightenment of the human race . It behoved us , therefore , to show that of all religions that ever existed ...
... reason and to beauty - a worship which had done nothing but shed blood , enthral the world , and delay the happiness and enlightenment of the human race . It behoved us , therefore , to show that of all religions that ever existed ...
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Page 180 - faithful men in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered."t Here are the living centres of the religious life. Here is the source of all legitimate ecclesiastical authority in the
Page 253 - now doubt it much, and see the event at no great distance. My only comfort and confidence is, that I shall not live to see this." Nor did he. But he lived to see that the temporary compromise with which the dilemma was for the time staved
Page 269 - which tends to increase this danger, though it may be a local affair, yet if it involves national expense or safety, becomes of concern to every part of the Union, and is a proper subject for the consideration of those charged with the general administration of the government.
Page 258 - but a smoke-house, a corn-house, and a range of nigger-houses. . . . From the banks of the Mississippi to the banks of the James, I did not—that I remember —see, except perhaps in one or two towns, a thermometer; nor a book of Shakespeare ; nor a pianoforte, or a sheet of music; nor the light of a
Page 258 - the bare floor; for there were no carpets or mats. For all that, the house swarmed with vermin. There was no hay, no straw, no oats ; but mouldy corn and leaves of maize ; no discretion, no care, no honesty. At the there was no stable, but a log-pen ; and besides this no other outhouses,
Page 369 - quite wanting, at the same time that they do not offend the superstitious disrelish for change, which is always present." But by fiction is meant something much more than the ordinary acceptation of the term. Legal fiction is taken to signify " any assumption which conceals, or affects to conceal, the fact that a rule of law has undergone alteration, its letter remaining unchanged, its operation being modified. 1
Page 276 - with English taste.] Turkish Life and Character. By Walter Thornbury. 2 vols. Smith and Elder. Hopes and Fears; or, Scenes from the Life of a Spinster. By the Author of the " Heir of Redclyffe.
Page 257 - in his preface to this last volume, " as an unfortunate circumstance, for which the people of the South were in nowise to blame, and the abolition of which was no more immediately practicable than the abrogation of hospitals, penitentiaries, and boarding-schools, it was with the distinct hope of aiding in this
Page 271 - I am impliedly if not expressly pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Congress to prohibit Slavery in all the