The British Controversialist and Literary MagazineHoulston and Stonemen, 1870 |
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MANY - SIDED MINDS . the answer to this , if searching and true , must go far to reduce Judaism to a rank with which Christianity had nothing in common save the doctrines of monotheism and original sin . * In the course of De Quincey's ...
MANY - SIDED MINDS . the answer to this , if searching and true , must go far to reduce Judaism to a rank with which Christianity had nothing in common save the doctrines of monotheism and original sin . * In the course of De Quincey's ...
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... the end of time , but there is an end for ever to the satire per se . It is true that we have more than one living satirist of the ori- ginal caste at the present day , but that proves 54 HAS THE AGE OF SATIRISTS PASSED AWAY ?
... the end of time , but there is an end for ever to the satire per se . It is true that we have more than one living satirist of the ori- ginal caste at the present day , but that proves 54 HAS THE AGE OF SATIRISTS PASSED AWAY ?
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... true meaning of epigram and irony is extended , the greater the enjoyment will be found in twirling round the sinner against decorum with a sharp twitch of wit , and pointing the finger of scorn at the fool . Carlyle saw that this would ...
... true meaning of epigram and irony is extended , the greater the enjoyment will be found in twirling round the sinner against decorum with a sharp twitch of wit , and pointing the finger of scorn at the fool . Carlyle saw that this would ...
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... true ; but for natures of finer texture , for all boys who have a decided and original bias , how much is there that the rough handling of a public school would ruthlessly crush ? From all the better public schools coarse bullying , we ...
... true ; but for natures of finer texture , for all boys who have a decided and original bias , how much is there that the rough handling of a public school would ruthlessly crush ? From all the better public schools coarse bullying , we ...
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... true of all poetry , more especially of that which deals with subtle and evanescent emotions which can never perhaps recur exactly in the same form . Once only in a lifetime may he succeed in catching— " Those brief unisons , which on ...
... true of all poetry , more especially of that which deals with subtle and evanescent emotions which can never perhaps recur exactly in the same form . Once only in a lifetime may he succeed in catching— " Those brief unisons , which on ...
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Page 43 - For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment ; and ye nave respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place...
Page 346 - How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Page 159 - And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Page 235 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown...
Page 264 - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
Page 250 - CIVITAS, which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body...
Page 14 - I authorize and give up my right of governing myself, to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition, that thou give up thy right to him, and authorize all his actions in like manner.
Page 94 - Sacraments ordained of Christ be not only badges or tokens of Christian men's profession, but rather they be certain sure witnesses, and effectual signs of grace, and God's good will towards us, by the which he doth work invisibly in us, and doth not only quicken, but also strengthen and confirm our Faith in him.
Page 159 - Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a...
Page 299 - We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky: The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God.