Essays, Historical and Biographical, Political and Social, Literary and ScientificAdam & Charles Black, 1862 - 495 頁 |
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... wild dash of the midnight tides as they fret the rocks of the Indian Archipelago . It has been already with our friends in Hin- dustan ; it has been greeted , we doubt not , with the voice of prayer , as the slow iron hand of the city ...
... wild dash of the midnight tides as they fret the rocks of the Indian Archipelago . It has been already with our friends in Hin- dustan ; it has been greeted , we doubt not , with the voice of prayer , as the slow iron hand of the city ...
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... wild trackless country , surrounded by a band of cowled and shaven monks . His lay attendants have doffed the gay ... wilds of Ross , for the unnatural part taken by him , in well - nigh his child- hood , against his unfortunate father ...
... wild trackless country , surrounded by a band of cowled and shaven monks . His lay attendants have doffed the gay ... wilds of Ross , for the unnatural part taken by him , in well - nigh his child- hood , against his unfortunate father ...
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... wild and unsettled character of the age . It was an age in which all power , judicial or monarchical , existed in its first elements ; the authority of the judge , though a king , was nothing apart from the terrors of the military . Nor ...
... wild and unsettled character of the age . It was an age in which all power , judicial or monarchical , existed in its first elements ; the authority of the judge , though a king , was nothing apart from the terrors of the military . Nor ...
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... wild dreams of the enthu- siast ? We may , indeed , err widely in attempting to fix the time , but be it remembered that God himself has fixed the events . It were little wonder though men should weary of the present . There are , we ...
... wild dreams of the enthu- siast ? We may , indeed , err widely in attempting to fix the time , but be it remembered that God himself has fixed the events . It were little wonder though men should weary of the present . There are , we ...
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... wild beasts in the amphitheatre , or hired a few hundred gladiators to fight together till the one - half of them were dead . One general , however , was content just to imitate another general ; and though they squandered their bronze ...
... wild beasts in the amphitheatre , or hired a few hundred gladiators to fight together till the one - half of them were dead . One general , however , was content just to imitate another general ; and though they squandered their bronze ...
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第 255 頁 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
第 226 頁 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
第 479 頁 - Man in society is like a flower Blown in its native bed : 'tis there alone His faculties, expanded in full bloom, Shine out ; there only reach their proper use.
第 429 頁 - THE HISTORY OF PALESTINE, from the Patriarchal Age to the Present Time ; with Chapters on the Geography and Natural History of the Country, the Customs and Institutions of the Hebrews.
第 33 頁 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
第 265 頁 - Road, and Finchley Common, on the great Northern Road, were perhaps the most celebrated of these spots. The Cambridge scholars trembled when they approached Epping Forest, even in broad daylight. Seamen who had just been paid off at Chatham were often compelled to deliver their purses on Gadshill, celebrated near a hundred years earlier by the greatest of poets as the scene of the depredations of Falstaff.
第 116 頁 - Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, A dreary desert, and a gloomy waste, To savage beasts and savage laws a prey, And kings more furious and severe than they...
第 221 頁 - ... the exigencies of their situation^ and in the way of affording assistance. And, therefore, when the partition of property is rigidly maintained against the claims of indigence and distress, it is maintained in opposition to the intention of those who made it, and to his, who is the Supreme Proprietor of every thing, and who has filled the world with plenteousness for the sustentation and comfort of all whom he sends into it.
第 14 頁 - These things are but toys to come amongst such serious observations ; but yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy than daubed with cost.
第 412 頁 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...