The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 8William Curry, Jun., and Company, 1836 |
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and advocating the principles of the course in which we are engaged . This certainly is the spirit in which these speeches are given to the world they are reprinted , not to secure the speaker's reputation , but to promote the cause in ...
and advocating the principles of the course in which we are engaged . This certainly is the spirit in which these speeches are given to the world they are reprinted , not to secure the speaker's reputation , but to promote the cause in ...
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... course of human events - a destiny of nations which neither demagogues nor minis- ters can control -- and it is not from one indication or two indications , that we form our judgment , when we say , that ( if we may use the expression ) ...
... course of human events - a destiny of nations which neither demagogues nor minis- ters can control -- and it is not from one indication or two indications , that we form our judgment , when we say , that ( if we may use the expression ) ...
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... course of degradation could debase the genius of the one , to the rabid venom of the other . We believe that the lampooner has been already roughly dealt with in our pages ; and yet we think we can say that sorrow more than anger was ...
... course of degradation could debase the genius of the one , to the rabid venom of the other . We believe that the lampooner has been already roughly dealt with in our pages ; and yet we think we can say that sorrow more than anger was ...
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... course of lec- tures at the Dublin Society ; that- but I had better let the reader have the document itself , as a sample of the epistolary style of a country cousin : — " Pumpkin Hall , May 17 , 183 " MY DEAR FREDERICK , -You will have ...
... course of lec- tures at the Dublin Society ; that- but I had better let the reader have the document itself , as a sample of the epistolary style of a country cousin : — " Pumpkin Hall , May 17 , 183 " MY DEAR FREDERICK , -You will have ...
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... course our admirers , the public at large , on the fact that the store of goose quills amounted to above fifteen mil- lions and a half . We shall now proceed to notice , what is to us , perhaps , the most impor- tant part of this work ...
... course our admirers , the public at large , on the fact that the store of goose quills amounted to above fifteen mil- lions and a half . We shall now proceed to notice , what is to us , perhaps , the most impor- tant part of this work ...
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Page 589 - LORD, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! Parents first season us : then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws ; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, Blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, The sound of Glory ringing in our ears : Without, our shame ; within, our consciences : Angels and grace, eternal hopes and...
Page 215 - And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Page 411 - His forehead was broad and high, light as if built of ivory, with large projecting eyebrows, and his eyes rolling beneath them, like a sea with darkened lustre. "A certain tender bloom his face o'erspread," a purple tinge as we see it in the pale, thoughtful complexions of the Spanish portrait-painters, Murillo and Velasquez.
Page 410 - ... which hardly seemed to have been made for him, but who seemed to be talking at a great rate to his fellow-passengers. Mr Rowe had scarce returned to give an account of his disappointment when the round-faced man in black entered, and dissipated all doubts on the subject by beginning to talk. He did not cease while he stayed ; nor has he since, that I know of. He held the good town of Shrewsbury in delightful suspense for three weeks that he remained there, " fluttering the proud Salopians, like...
Page 251 - ... about him, as the kindliest climate could have engendered and put together. With all this sail, poor Yorick carried not one ounce of ballast; he was utterly unpractised in the world: and, at the age of twenty-six, knew just about as well how to steer his course in it, as a romping, unsuspicious girl of thirteen...
Page 590 - I did ; and going did a rainbow note : Surely, thought I, This is the lace of Peace's coat : I will search out the matter.
Page 411 - And for myself, I could not have been more delighted if I had heard the music of the spheres. Poetry and Philosophy had met together. Truth and Genius had embraced, under the eye and with the sanction of Religion. This was even beyond my hopes. I returned home well satisfied. The sun that was still labouring pale and wan through the sky, obscured by thick mists, seemed an emblem of the good cause; and the cold, dank drops of dew that hung half melted on the beard of the thistle had something genial...
Page 585 - Secondly, by dipping and seasoning all our words and sentences in our hearts before they come into our mouths ; truly affecting, and cordially expressing all that we say : so that the auditors may plainly perceive that every word is heart-deep.
Page 584 - That the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight; and that the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his conscience, whensoever he should pass by that place; for, if I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, I am sure that I am bound so far as it is in my power to practise what I pray for.
Page 410 - As he gave out this text, his voice ' rose like a stream of rich distilled perfumes;' and when he came to the two last words, which he pronounced loud, deep, and distinct, it seemed to me, who was then young, as if the sounds had echoed from the bottom of the human heart, and as if that prayer might have floated in solemn silence through the universe.