Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volumes 50-51John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1860 |
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... Roman Relics in the Caves of Kent's Hole , Anste's Cove , Chudleigh , and VOL , L.-NO. 1 moderate men and lovers of truth have agreed for some time past not to attempt to harmonize apparently conflicting truths , but simply to discover ...
... Roman Relics in the Caves of Kent's Hole , Anste's Cove , Chudleigh , and VOL , L.-NO. 1 moderate men and lovers of truth have agreed for some time past not to attempt to harmonize apparently conflicting truths , but simply to discover ...
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... Romans swept over those countries , were not only them- selves of very long standing , but could hardly have been the earliest races in pos- session . It remained for the progress of discovery in geology to bring proofs of this ; but ...
... Romans swept over those countries , were not only them- selves of very long standing , but could hardly have been the earliest races in pos- session . It remained for the progress of discovery in geology to bring proofs of this ; but ...
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... Romans . The determination not to recognize any observation that should seem likely to in- volve the admission of an error in the admitted chronology , has lasted almost to the present time ; but a rude shock was certainly given to it ...
... Romans . The determination not to recognize any observation that should seem likely to in- volve the admission of an error in the admitted chronology , has lasted almost to the present time ; but a rude shock was certainly given to it ...
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... Roman who is willing to accept the cultivation of cab- bages as an equivalent for the splendors of a dictatorship ; and Napoleon at St. Have you not sometimes seen a high- Helena making himself and Sir Hudson couraged , high - stepping ...
... Roman who is willing to accept the cultivation of cab- bages as an equivalent for the splendors of a dictatorship ; and Napoleon at St. Have you not sometimes seen a high- Helena making himself and Sir Hudson couraged , high - stepping ...
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... Roman minstrel's opinion of the best remedy for " life's bitters , " namely , to sit in the shade , with little on save a garland , and drink an unsound wine till it pro- duces maudlin inebriety , we are fain to admit such testimony as ...
... Roman minstrel's opinion of the best remedy for " life's bitters , " namely , to sit in the shade , with little on save a garland , and drink an unsound wine till it pro- duces maudlin inebriety , we are fain to admit such testimony as ...
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Page 240 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 486 - As in a theatre the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on gentle Richard : no man cried, God save him...
Page 270 - Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Page 391 - The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 329 - Again! again! again! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back; Their shots along the deep slowly boom: Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail; Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom.
Page 90 - The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
Page 87 - And see the rivers how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep!
Page 270 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Page 133 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 275 - The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory ; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection.