The North American Review, Volume 78Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1854 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... critics , it could not have assumed its unchallenged place in the canon with the other three Gospels . Together with this essential testimony , so seasonable as regards the last master - stroke of neological audacity , our treatise ...
... critics , it could not have assumed its unchallenged place in the canon with the other three Gospels . Together with this essential testimony , so seasonable as regards the last master - stroke of neological audacity , our treatise ...
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... criticism had not developed itself ; but looseness of construction , allegorical ex- position , and mystical interpretation , according as the genius or the ignorance of each might dictate , were freely tolerated . But in process of ...
... criticism had not developed itself ; but looseness of construction , allegorical ex- position , and mystical interpretation , according as the genius or the ignorance of each might dictate , were freely tolerated . But in process of ...
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... critics and commentators , especially the German , was frequently requisite to satisfy my mind that my first position was the right one . Considerable improvement , however , has been made , I trust , both in point of style and ...
... critics and commentators , especially the German , was frequently requisite to satisfy my mind that my first position was the right one . Considerable improvement , however , has been made , I trust , both in point of style and ...
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... criticism . It places before us , in the simplest form , the life and labors of a man devoted , heart and soul , to a single un- dertaking . The enlarged portrait , like the miniature picture that we have drawn from it , is , as we have ...
... criticism . It places before us , in the simplest form , the life and labors of a man devoted , heart and soul , to a single un- dertaking . The enlarged portrait , like the miniature picture that we have drawn from it , is , as we have ...
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... criticisms to which his work has been subjected , but admits that they have been useful to him , by showing where his exposition of a doctrine needed to be amended , or his argument to be strengthened . Among the strictures which he has ...
... criticisms to which his work has been subjected , but admits that they have been useful to him , by showing where his exposition of a doctrine needed to be amended , or his argument to be strengthened . Among the strictures which he has ...
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Page 418 - I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 445 - And we also bless thy holy Name, for all thy servants departed this life in thy faith and fear ; beseeching thee to give us grace so to follow their good examples, that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom.
Page 387 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you, and being an absolute Johannes factotum is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 446 - I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me.' They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors.
Page 84 - It is seldom, if ever, between a consequent and a single antecedent that this invariable sequence subsists. It is usually between a consequent and the sum of several antecedents ; the concurrence of all of them being requisite to produce, that is, to be certain of being followed by, the consequent. In such cases it is very common to single out one only of the antecedents under the denomination of Cause, calling the others merely Conditions.
Page 414 - Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 15 - And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls, and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto thee...
Page 444 - Christ; and see that you never cease your labour, your care and diligence, until you have done all that lieth in you, according to your bounden duty, to bring all such as are or shall be committed to your charge, unto that agreement in the faith and knowledge of God, and to that ripeness and perfectness of...
Page 32 - God, who is independent of the incidents of mortality, and that, besides him, there is no God ; and then with an air of indifference, perhaps disdain, he dashed it down to the ground ! Moung Zah .stooped forward, picked it up, and handed it to us. Moung Yo made a slight attempt to save us, by unfolding one of the volumes which composed our present, and displaying its beauty ; but his Majesty took no notice. Our fate was decided. After a few moments, Moung Zah interpreted his royal master's will,...
Page 25 - Dead!" "Yes, he is gone, poor fellow! The doctor said he would probably not survive the night.