The Quarterly Review, Volume 70J. Murray, 1842 |
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... present moment , these degraded beings abound in all the great centres of population . A numerous division of the tribe hang about the market - places , to pick up a few pence , by exe- cuting commissions , and eke out their daily gains ...
... present moment , these degraded beings abound in all the great centres of population . A numerous division of the tribe hang about the market - places , to pick up a few pence , by exe- cuting commissions , and eke out their daily gains ...
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... present state of Christianity in France . This account goes to the startling length of asserting that religious faith has in effect ceased to exist through- out the nation , and that Christianity has no longer any hold on the public ...
... present state of Christianity in France . This account goes to the startling length of asserting that religious faith has in effect ceased to exist through- out the nation , and that Christianity has no longer any hold on the public ...
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... present state of things leads to deeper and deeper shades of depravity ; and each year the danger to the health of the metropolis becomes more imminent . Each year also , as the lower orders become more intelligent and more sensibly ...
... present state of things leads to deeper and deeper shades of depravity ; and each year the danger to the health of the metropolis becomes more imminent . Each year also , as the lower orders become more intelligent and more sensibly ...
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... present , most injurious to society , it might be rendered the means of great moral good . We must decline going into this question at present ; the abominable im- morality of the French dramas and novels of the day has been of late ...
... present , most injurious to society , it might be rendered the means of great moral good . We must decline going into this question at present ; the abominable im- morality of the French dramas and novels of the day has been of late ...
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... present in Paris . men . ' The shopmen and commercial clerks are in general little educated ; the establishment of evening lecture - rooms for these young men would be attended with important advantages , both to themselves and to their ...
... present in Paris . men . ' The shopmen and commercial clerks are in general little educated ; the establishment of evening lecture - rooms for these young men would be attended with important advantages , both to themselves and to their ...
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Page 127 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 267 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 126 - At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount...
Page 267 - Is it well to wish thee happy? — having known me — to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine!
Page 267 - Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions with a mute observance hung. And I said, ' My cousin Amy, speak, and speak the truth to me, Trust me, cousin, all the current of my being sets to thee.
Page 113 - I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 267 - Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn; And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at, in among the throngs of men; Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do.
Page 265 - I mourned with thousands, but as one More deeply grieved, for He was gone Whose light I hailed when first it shone, And showed my youth How Verse may build a princely throne On humble truth.
Page 267 - DORA. WITH farmer Allan at the farm abode William and Dora. William was his son, And she his niece. He often look'd at them. And often thought,
Page 203 - Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment: 14 And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom...