The Southern Review, Volume 4A. E. Miller., 1829 |
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... the Romans , as some persons have absurdly imagined , how or by what miracle could they have hit on the identical letters which Cadmus brought from Phoenicia , and have rejected all the rest ? 4 [ August , Higgins ' Celtic Druids .
... the Romans , as some persons have absurdly imagined , how or by what miracle could they have hit on the identical letters which Cadmus brought from Phoenicia , and have rejected all the rest ? 4 [ August , Higgins ' Celtic Druids .
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... persons totally regardless of historic ve- racity , and who amused themselves and the ignorant people whom they addressed , by these absurd personifications . There never was a nation so utterly regardless of truth as the Greeks , and ...
... persons totally regardless of historic ve- racity , and who amused themselves and the ignorant people whom they addressed , by these absurd personifications . There never was a nation so utterly regardless of truth as the Greeks , and ...
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... person who made the assertion ; but it is so rude and inartificial , that no great extent of intellect was required for its invention - at least such is our opinion . Derivation of Britain and Bretagne , and Albion . ( p . 94. ) Noth ...
... person who made the assertion ; but it is so rude and inartificial , that no great extent of intellect was required for its invention - at least such is our opinion . Derivation of Britain and Bretagne , and Albion . ( p . 94. ) Noth ...
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... person should maintain that , not the author's Celtæ , but his own Scythians or Goths were those who first came , it would scarcely be considered worth a reply . Call them Goths then ; it matters not . They were the persons , Goths or ...
... person should maintain that , not the author's Celtæ , but his own Scythians or Goths were those who first came , it would scarcely be considered worth a reply . Call them Goths then ; it matters not . They were the persons , Goths or ...
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... persons who wrote no books , and who probably could not write at all ? How were workmen , particularly the architects or master ma- sons , to instruct or be instructed , but by oral intercourse at regular meetings , held under fixed ...
... persons who wrote no books , and who probably could not write at all ? How were workmen , particularly the architects or master ma- sons , to instruct or be instructed , but by oral intercourse at regular meetings , held under fixed ...
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Page 156 - ... her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all ,with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 160 - ... outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.
Page 463 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 456 - Art thou called being a servant '( care not for it : but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
Page 257 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 321 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased, but all The multitude of angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy...
Page 332 - ... though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to but with the prophet, "O earth, earth, earth!
Page 457 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
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