The Twentieth Century, Volum 5Nineteenth Century and After, 1879 |
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Pàgina 31
... light literature without injury to her purity . For there had been about Miss Burney , in spite of her morality , a smell of the torchlights of iniquity which had been offensive to the nose of the ordinary British matron . Miss ...
... light literature without injury to her purity . For there had been about Miss Burney , in spite of her morality , a smell of the torchlights of iniquity which had been offensive to the nose of the ordinary British matron . Miss ...
Pàgina 54
... light of new experience , especially the experience of sessions just closed , when it is admitted that the constitution was strained in a somewhat alarming manner , now is a most appropriate time for fairly and thoughtfully consider ...
... light of new experience , especially the experience of sessions just closed , when it is admitted that the constitution was strained in a somewhat alarming manner , now is a most appropriate time for fairly and thoughtfully consider ...
Pàgina 69
... light , is guilty of black ingratitude . 2 Thus far , then , according to Dr. Tyndall , the position that science has won for us is this . If it were not for this one fact of human consciousness , it might be fairly said that we should ...
... light , is guilty of black ingratitude . 2 Thus far , then , according to Dr. Tyndall , the position that science has won for us is this . If it were not for this one fact of human consciousness , it might be fairly said that we should ...
Pàgina 72
... light . But elsewhere he tells us expressly that he does not mean this . This , he expressly says , is the interpretation of grosser minds , ' which science will not for a moment permit us to retain . The brain contains no ' entity ...
... light . But elsewhere he tells us expressly that he does not mean this . This , he expressly says , is the interpretation of grosser minds , ' which science will not for a moment permit us to retain . The brain contains no ' entity ...
Pàgina 80
... light for two reasons . He may consider that there is something salutary in the mere assent to its articles ; and he may consider this assent as of value also in its results upon practical conduct . We shall have to treat these two ...
... light for two reasons . He may consider that there is something salutary in the mere assent to its articles ; and he may consider this assent as of value also in its results upon practical conduct . We shall have to treat these two ...
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Pàgina 79 - The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Pàgina 558 - And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives : let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
Pàgina 257 - See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill...
Pàgina 726 - HIGH is our calling, Friend ! — Creative Art (Whether the instrument of words she use, Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,) Demands the service of a mind and heart, Though sensitive, yet, in their weakest part, Heroically fashioned — to infuse Faith in the whispers of the lonely Muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert.
Pàgina 577 - Heat like the mouth of a hell, or a deluge of cataract skies, Stench of old offal decaying, and infinite torment of flies, Thoughts of the breezes of May blowing over an English field, Cholera, scurvy, and fever, the wound that would not be...
Pàgina 396 - Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Pàgina 576 - Now double-charge it with grape! It is charged and we fire, and they run. Praise to our Indian brothers, and let the dark face have his due! Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few...
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Pàgina 27 - I felt. that something might be attempted for my own country," of the same kind with that which Miss Edgeworth so fortunately achieved for Ireland— something which might introduce her natives to those of the sister kingdom, in a more favourable light than they had been placed hitherto, and tend to procure sympathy for their virtues and indulgence for their foibles.
Pàgina 726 - While the whole world seems adverse to desert. And, oh! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness— Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!