Littell's Living Age, Volumul 55Living Age Company Incorporated, 1857 |
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... believe it to be an act of bare justice . We are convinced that posterity has dealt hardly by his memory , and that there are hundreds who have been better remembered with far less claims to that honor . Thus it is singular that even Mr ...
... believe it to be an act of bare justice . We are convinced that posterity has dealt hardly by his memory , and that there are hundreds who have been better remembered with far less claims to that honor . Thus it is singular that even Mr ...
Pagina 6
... believe was built four stories high , are observed to have true ) it was made for it . " On Machiavel's little in their cock - loft . " Of virtue in a saying , that he who undertakes to write a very short man , he says , " His soul had ...
... believe was built four stories high , are observed to have true ) it was made for it . " On Machiavel's little in their cock - loft . " Of virtue in a saying , that he who undertakes to write a very short man , he says , " His soul had ...
Pagina 11
... as though men would not believe their own senses , unless they had the authority of an- tiquity for doing so . From all the forms of learned pedantry , Fuller may be pronounced membrancer . Yet LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THOMAS FULLER . 11.
... as though men would not believe their own senses , unless they had the authority of an- tiquity for doing so . From all the forms of learned pedantry , Fuller may be pronounced membrancer . Yet LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THOMAS FULLER . 11.
Pagina 16
... believe that , as in their case , documents , it was impossible that he should his principal statements will be found more not fall into serious errors ; but he diligently nearly true the more they are investigated . availed himself of ...
... believe that , as in their case , documents , it was impossible that he should his principal statements will be found more not fall into serious errors ; but he diligently nearly true the more they are investigated . availed himself of ...
Pagina 25
... believe in the eter- tune . " nity of all they feel . She was roused from this sorrow of sen- timent by a real affliction . Scarlet fever broke out in the parish . Mr. Huxley.caught it , and died , after a fortnight's illness . A life ...
... believe in the eter- tune . " nity of all they feel . She was roused from this sorrow of sen- timent by a real affliction . Scarlet fever broke out in the parish . Mr. Huxley.caught it , and died , after a fortnight's illness . A life ...
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Pagina 5 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
Pagina 140 - Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...
Pagina 6 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Pagina 242 - I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrelshooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon-time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around, and was prolonged and reverberated by the angry echoes. If ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled...
Pagina 390 - I asked the next (Emily, afterwards Ellis Bell), what I had best do with her brother Branwell, who was sometimes a naughty boy ; she answered, ' Reason with him, and when he won't listen to reason, whip him.
Pagina 192 - But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover...
Pagina 3 - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
Pagina 18 - THE WRITINGS OF FULLER, THE CHURCH HISTORIAN. THE writings of Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint, and with sufficient reason ; for such was his natural bias to conceits, that I doubt not upon most occasions it would have been going out of his way to have expressed himself out of them.
Pagina 192 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Pagina 304 - The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra ; but am I not 4 They poisoned Pope Ganganelli.