The Contemporary Review, Volumul 29A. Strahan, 1877 |
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... Perhaps the greatest measure , ever accomplished by a single man at a single stroke , was the foundation of Constantinople ; whose empire sur- vived , by a thousand years , that of the elder Rome . Here , too Greek influences acquired ...
... Perhaps the greatest measure , ever accomplished by a single man at a single stroke , was the foundation of Constantinople ; whose empire sur- vived , by a thousand years , that of the elder Rome . Here , too Greek influences acquired ...
Pagina 16
... perhaps more striking , but yet more grievous in its consequences , was the narrow amount of territory accorded to the new Kingdom , as if to abate at once the high hopes and rebuke the noble daring of its people , and to condemn the ...
... perhaps more striking , but yet more grievous in its consequences , was the narrow amount of territory accorded to the new Kingdom , as if to abate at once the high hopes and rebuke the noble daring of its people , and to condemn the ...
Pagina 17
... perhaps it knew , in offering , or promoting the offer of , its crown to Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg , first among the statesman - kings of his day , or perhaps his century . He accepted the Hellenic throne ; but the intrigues of ...
... perhaps it knew , in offering , or promoting the offer of , its crown to Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg , first among the statesman - kings of his day , or perhaps his century . He accepted the Hellenic throne ; but the intrigues of ...
Pagina 23
... perhaps of recollection ; for , though Russia may have used them in her own interest as tools against the Porte , it was to her power that they owed those local immunities , which put them in a condition to become , after the Treaty of ...
... perhaps of recollection ; for , though Russia may have used them in her own interest as tools against the Porte , it was to her power that they owed those local immunities , which put them in a condition to become , after the Treaty of ...
Pagina 42
... perhaps , be open to criticism ; but every incident brought forward is constantly illustrated in real life by the newspaper reports . Every few weeks coroners ' juries are engaged in investigating the suicides of wretched girls , ruined ...
... perhaps , be open to criticism ; but every incident brought forward is constantly illustrated in real life by the newspaper reports . Every few weeks coroners ' juries are engaged in investigating the suicides of wretched girls , ruined ...
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Pagina 279 - A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Pagina 172 - Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing.
Pagina 393 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builded...
Pagina 393 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Pagina 521 - From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.
Pagina 125 - Thus, whatever system of organs be studied, the comparison of their modifications in the ape series leads to one and the same result — that the structural differences which separate Man from the Gorilla and the Chimpanzee are not so great as those which separate the Gorilla from the lower apes.
Pagina 407 - How great a virtue is temperance, how much of moment through the whole life of man ! Yet God commits the managing so great a trust without particular law or prescription, wholly to the demeanour of every grown man.
Pagina 95 - He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours. He cannot meet you on the square. He wants a point given him, like an indifferent whistplayer. He is so used to teaching, that he wants to be teaching you.
Pagina 336 - Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.
Pagina 126 - At the same time, no one is more strongly convinced than I am of the vastness of the gulf between civilized man and the brutes ; or is more certain that, whether from them or not, he is assuredly not of them.