The Quarterly Review, Volume 33William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1826 |
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... brought about . * On the whole we assure Mr. Butler , that we can admire equally with himself the devotion , the fortitude , the resignation , with which these missionary priests encountered tortures and death . We can mourn over the ...
... brought about . * On the whole we assure Mr. Butler , that we can admire equally with himself the devotion , the fortitude , the resignation , with which these missionary priests encountered tortures and death . We can mourn over the ...
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... brought up in every kind of superstition which unfits them altogether for comprehending the divine mysteries of the gospel , this practice throws an additional impediment in the way of their introductiou and access to the society of the ...
... brought up in every kind of superstition which unfits them altogether for comprehending the divine mysteries of the gospel , this practice throws an additional impediment in the way of their introductiou and access to the society of the ...
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... brought them out . They petitioned , however , and were permitted to go to the Isle of France , but they could get no passage . Afterwards , when a ship offered , they met with a refusal ; but the captain gave them leave to embark if ...
... brought them out . They petitioned , however , and were permitted to go to the Isle of France , but they could get no passage . Afterwards , when a ship offered , they met with a refusal ; but the captain gave them leave to embark if ...
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... brought another , a poor fisherman , who , with a third , became , in the course of a year , a candidate for baptism . But , urged by fear of the ruling powers , they requested that the ceremony might take place in private and in the ...
... brought another , a poor fisherman , who , with a third , became , in the course of a year , a candidate for baptism . But , urged by fear of the ruling powers , they requested that the ceremony might take place in private and in the ...
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... brought into jeopardy the peace and property of sixty or seventy millions of our Hindostanee subjects , by the temptation which it held out to the native chieftains , to burst forth with their bands of marauders , and spread such terror ...
... brought into jeopardy the peace and property of sixty or seventy millions of our Hindostanee subjects , by the temptation which it held out to the native chieftains , to burst forth with their bands of marauders , and spread such terror ...
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Page 92 - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost ; and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood ; and these three agree in one.
Page 272 - Sweet Queen of Parley, Daughter of the Sphere! So may'st thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies!
Page 169 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 438 - ... grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about, as a manifestation of his wicked life, and due punishment received for the same.
Page 359 - In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.
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Page 506 - The Parliament of Great Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities. One as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power. The other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character ; in which, as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all without annihilating any.
Page 290 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth...
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Page 292 - Garden. And in the Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them.