The Living Age, Volume 213E. Littell & Company, 1897 |
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... facts he was a large colliery owner and a local Tory of some renown . An am- bitious man , as the neighbors said ... fact , only half listened , and when a rare passed across his grey face , it invari- ably owed its existence to some ...
... facts he was a large colliery owner and a local Tory of some renown . An am- bitious man , as the neighbors said ... fact , only half listened , and when a rare passed across his grey face , it invari- ably owed its existence to some ...
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... fact disturb his appeared in no way to equanimity , for as he knocked his pipe against the bars of the fire he mured a popular air in a careless voice . The firelight showed his face to be pleasant enough , in a way that left the land ...
... fact disturb his appeared in no way to equanimity , for as he knocked his pipe against the bars of the fire he mured a popular air in a careless voice . The firelight showed his face to be pleasant enough , in a way that left the land ...
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... fact , the character itself is of no value for the purposes of history unless it be brought into relation with the general conditions of life and thought which produced it . This is the difference be- tween history and fiction . For the ...
... fact , the character itself is of no value for the purposes of history unless it be brought into relation with the general conditions of life and thought which produced it . This is the difference be- tween history and fiction . For the ...
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... fact that its records still remain and have their message for us . Italian princes would be forgotten had they not been patrons of artists and architects , whose works speak to us by their beauty and their grandeur . We wish to know ...
... fact that its records still remain and have their message for us . Italian princes would be forgotten had they not been patrons of artists and architects , whose works speak to us by their beauty and their grandeur . We wish to know ...
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... fact creates a literary study of those characters which is given in consid- erable detail . It is worth while to go a step further , and consider what may be learned from this fact . Perhaps this may best be done by reference to the ...
... fact creates a literary study of those characters which is given in consid- erable detail . It is worth while to go a step further , and consider what may be learned from this fact . Perhaps this may best be done by reference to the ...
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Page 283 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
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Page 291 - IN a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity: The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them; Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime.
Page 269 - Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; and afterwards that which is spiritual.
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Page 227 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Page 93 - Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.