Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 45Macmillan and Company, 1882 |
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... honour . Very generally , though not always , the spot thus selected is linked one way or other with the individual memory of some hero or demi - god , some protective power , iden- tified with personal act or life . Rome indeed ...
... honour . Very generally , though not always , the spot thus selected is linked one way or other with the individual memory of some hero or demi - god , some protective power , iden- tified with personal act or life . Rome indeed ...
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... honour wide in its application as our own " lord , " but chiefly applied by custom to holy things or persons , as monks , priests , and the like . Neither in itself , nor in composition , does it ordinarily in- dicate anything , in the ...
... honour wide in its application as our own " lord , " but chiefly applied by custom to holy things or persons , as monks , priests , and the like . Neither in itself , nor in composition , does it ordinarily in- dicate anything , in the ...
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... honour . as History , if Fergusson's assertion be correct , has never risen with any Turanian people above the level of annals , and those in general of the most meagre and unsatisfactory cha- racter . To this rule Siamese records make ...
... honour . as History , if Fergusson's assertion be correct , has never risen with any Turanian people above the level of annals , and those in general of the most meagre and unsatisfactory cha- racter . To this rule Siamese records make ...
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... honoured by no particular reverence distinct from that allowed to the " Phra - chedi " itself . Hardly any temple in Siam but has one or more of these pyramid spires in at- tendance on it , and often out - topping it greatly ; that ...
... honoured by no particular reverence distinct from that allowed to the " Phra - chedi " itself . Hardly any temple in Siam but has one or more of these pyramid spires in at- tendance on it , and often out - topping it greatly ; that ...
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... honour of that chiefest and central symbol of Buddhism , the Phra - Bat . About half - way up the mountain there is a small natural cave , much fre- quented by bats and pilgrims ; but neither this nor a much larger cave at the foot of ...
... honour of that chiefest and central symbol of Buddhism , the Phra - Bat . About half - way up the mountain there is a small natural cave , much fre- quented by bats and pilgrims ; but neither this nor a much larger cave at the foot of ...
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Page 76 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Page 54 - I cannot tell, this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights.
Page 306 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered...
Page 161 - Hast thou not a heart; canst thou not suffer whatsoever it be; and, as a Child of Freedom, though outcast, trample Tophet itself under thy feet, while it consumes thee ? Let it come, then; I will meet it and defy it!
Page 491 - Jews to parliament and the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown.
Page 321 - Of its own arduous fulness reverent : Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night may rule ; and let Time see Its flowering crest impearled and orient. A Sonnet is a coin : its face reveals The soul, — its converse, to what Power 'tis due ; — Whether for tribute to the august appeals Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue.
Page 161 - What art thou afraid of? Wherefore, like a coward, dost thou forever pip and whimper, and go cowering and trembling? Despicable biped! what is the sum-total of the worst that lies before thee? Death? Well, Death; and say the pangs of Tophet too, and all that the Devil and Man may, will, or can do against thee!
Page 161 - Thus had the EVERLASTING No (das ewige Nein) pealed authoritatively through all the recesses of my Being, of my ME; and then was it that my whole ME stood up, in native God-created majesty, and with emphasis recorded its Protest.
Page 451 - I give you this charge that you shall be of my privy council, and content yourself to take pains for me and my realm. This judgment I have of you, that you will not be corrupted by any manner of gift, and that you will be faithful to the State ; and that, without respect to my private will, you will give me that counsel which you think best...
Page 151 - The blue majestic everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind ; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet (where not a hillock rears its head unsung), with Edinburgh at their base clustering proudly over her rugged foundations, and covering with a vapoury mantle the jagged black venerable masses of stonework that stretch far and wide and show like a city of Fairyland.