The New Englander, Volume 18A.H. Maltby, 1860 - Criticism |
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... spirit in which they are written , and although the verses are smooth and polished and rhyme with faultless regularity , the poems are monotonous and heavy . The Arthur whom they celebrate is a mere military hero , although his general ...
... spirit in which they are written , and although the verses are smooth and polished and rhyme with faultless regularity , the poems are monotonous and heavy . The Arthur whom they celebrate is a mere military hero , although his general ...
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... spirit does she humbly ask to join the sisterhood of nuns , -to fast and grieve and pray and labor with them ... spirits and men Before the coming of the sinful queen . " And the introduction of this episode is only one instance of how ...
... spirit does she humbly ask to join the sisterhood of nuns , -to fast and grieve and pray and labor with them ... spirits and men Before the coming of the sinful queen . " And the introduction of this episode is only one instance of how ...
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... spirit . Almost alike dependent upon the same popular breath , they are found to yield alike to popular impulse , and often to legislate hastily and unwisely . Our legislation is more the work of the people than is that of England ; our ...
... spirit . Almost alike dependent upon the same popular breath , they are found to yield alike to popular impulse , and often to legislate hastily and unwisely . Our legislation is more the work of the people than is that of England ; our ...
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... spirit , imposes the necessity of peculiar laws . There is very much in our situation , which has contributed to the character we possess , and which has been speaking out in all our past legislation . We are far removed from any of the ...
... spirit , imposes the necessity of peculiar laws . There is very much in our situation , which has contributed to the character we possess , and which has been speaking out in all our past legislation . We are far removed from any of the ...
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... spirit , the character , and the general development of our people . It has taken away the privileges of the Norman feud , and the Jewish birthright . It no longer permits the whole land of the father to descend , at his death , to his ...
... spirit , the character , and the general development of our people . It has taken away the privileges of the Norman feud , and the Jewish birthright . It no longer permits the whole land of the father to descend , at his death , to his ...
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Page 164 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 370 - Moreover, of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen forever : but over your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor.
Page 367 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 26 - Camelot. Out upon the wharfs they came, Knight and burgher, lord and dame, And round the prow they read her name, The Lady of Shalott. Who is this? and what is here? And in the lighted palace near Died the sound of royal cheer; And they cross'd themselves for fear, All the knights at Camelot: But Lancelot mused a little space; He said, "She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.
Page 627 - Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Page 863 - Jesus: who, being in the form of God, counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men...
Page 856 - Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.
Page 164 - Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Page 369 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
Page 396 - A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent.