The North American Review, Volume 73University of Northern Iowa, 1851 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... island of the Britons , and bowed before the cross of Christ . So striking is this resemblance that , of late years , we have come to call ourselves Anglo - Saxons in common parlance , and to find an excuse for our aggressions upon our ...
... island of the Britons , and bowed before the cross of Christ . So striking is this resemblance that , of late years , we have come to call ourselves Anglo - Saxons in common parlance , and to find an excuse for our aggressions upon our ...
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Saxon as those which first sought a home in the island of the Britons . The counties in England whence they chiefly came were those which had been least influenced by the Danes or the Normans . The Normans came to England as lords and ...
Saxon as those which first sought a home in the island of the Britons . The counties in England whence they chiefly came were those which had been least influenced by the Danes or the Normans . The Normans came to England as lords and ...
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... islands , it seemed doubtful whether they had ever belonged to the same race . They probably would not have continued ... island of Britain , which the Romans found it no light task to conquer . Meantime , the Scythians became renowned ...
... islands , it seemed doubtful whether they had ever belonged to the same race . They probably would not have continued ... island of Britain , which the Romans found it no light task to conquer . Meantime , the Scythians became renowned ...
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... islands off the coast of Jutland , namely , - North Strandt , Busen , and Heilig - island , or the Holy Island , the seat of the worship of the idol Foseti . This is supposed by some to be the island described by Tacitus as containing ...
... islands off the coast of Jutland , namely , - North Strandt , Busen , and Heilig - island , or the Holy Island , the seat of the worship of the idol Foseti . This is supposed by some to be the island described by Tacitus as containing ...
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... island . The time was propi- tious for the Jutes ; they at once offered their services , and proved so useful that they were allowed to call over others of their countrymen to their aid ; and the Isle of Thanet was assigned them as a ...
... island . The time was propi- tious for the Jutes ; they at once offered their services , and proved so useful that they were allowed to call over others of their countrymen to their aid ; and the Isle of Thanet was assigned them as a ...
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Page 32 - My days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
Page 441 - It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great creator and preserver of the universe.
Page 262 - WHEN Israel went out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language ; Judah was his sanctuary, And Israel his dominion.
Page 263 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all deeps. Fire and hail, snow and vapour, stormy wind fulfilling his word. Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars. Beasts and all cattle, creeping things, and flying fowls. Kings of the earth, and all people ; princes, and all judges of the earth. Both young men and maidens, old men and children. Let them praise the name of the Lord : for his name alone is excellent, his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page 34 - ANGLO-SAXONICA.— Selections, in Prose and Verse, from •^*- Anglo-Saxon Literature, with an Introductory Ethnological Essay, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Louis F. KLIPSTEIN, of the University of Giessen.
Page 492 - You have given me praise for having reflected faithfully in my Poems the feelings of human nature. I would fain hope that I have done so. But a great Poet ought to do more than this: he ought, to a certain degree, to rectify men's feelings, to give them new compositions of feeling, to render their feelings more sane, pure, and permanent, in short, more consonant to [295] JUNE 1802 nature, that is, to eternal nature, and the great moving spirit of things.
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Page 485 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Page 29 - Here is a man at Keswick, who acts upon me as my own ghost would do. He is just what I was in 1794.
Page 209 - In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.