The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 207Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1859 - English essays |
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Page 170 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 121 - ... the peerage would be but as dust in the balance against a preponderating democracy. They mean democracy, and nothing else. And, give them but a House of Commons constructed on their own principles, — the peerage and the throne may exist for a day, but may be swept from the face of the earth by the first angry vote of such a House of Conations.
Page 173 - Sonnets, Triumphs and other Poems. Translated into English Verse by various Hands. With a Life of the Poet by Thomas Campbell. With Portrait and 15 Steel Engravings. 5*.
Page 46 - ... Those from the drift are, on the contrary, never ground, and are exclusively of flint. They have, indeed, every appearance of having been fabricated by another race of men, who, from the fact that the Celtic stone weapons have been found in the superficial soil above the drift containing these ruder weapons, as well as from other considerations, must have inhabited this region of the globe at a period anterior to its so-called Celtic occupation.
Page 226 - The Smoaking Age, or, the man in the mist : — with the life and death of Tobacco.
Page 133 - The axe then did at one blow cut off more learning than was in the heads of all the surviving nobility.
Page 363 - That this House resolve itself into a committee of the whole House, in order to consider the present state of the church establishment in Ireland, with the view of applying any surplus of the revenues not required for the spiritual care of its members to the general education of all classes of the people, without distinction of religious persuasion.
Page 418 - Christ and other Masters. A Historical Inquiry into some of the Chief Parallelisms and Contrasts between Christianity and the Religious Systems of the Ancient World.
Page 279 - ... perish by the fall, or be swallowed up by the waves. But on the very day on which the nation received the baptism of faith there fell a soft but plentiful rain; the earth revived again, and, the verdure being restored to the fields, the season was pleasant and fruitful.
Page 225 - Sir Walter Raleigh was the first that brought tobacco into England, and into fashion. In our part of North Wilts — Malmesbury hundred — it came first into fashion by Sir Walter Long. They had first silver pipes. The ordinary sort made use of a walnutshell and a straw. I have heard my grandfather Lyte say, that one pipe was handed from man to man round the table.