The National Quarterly Review, Volume 23Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman Pudney & Russell, 1871 - Periodicals |
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... evidences for the truth of revelation . Sir William Hamilton has been endeavoring , and apparently not without success , to convince the world that the common- sense philosophy of his Scotch predecessors is not so absurd as has been ...
... evidences for the truth of revelation . Sir William Hamilton has been endeavoring , and apparently not without success , to convince the world that the common- sense philosophy of his Scotch predecessors is not so absurd as has been ...
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... evidences of cruelty in the world . Animals . from the highest to the lowest , prey upon each other ; some are formed expressly to subsist by the destruction of those weaker than themselves . Live and let live , is not the law of ...
... evidences of cruelty in the world . Animals . from the highest to the lowest , prey upon each other ; some are formed expressly to subsist by the destruction of those weaker than themselves . Live and let live , is not the law of ...
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... evidences of such movements come down to us , as in the Aryan conquests . Later we have the Mongol in- vasions , and numerous less extensive advances . But the move- ment of the Cossack has not the torrent rush of these invading hordes ...
... evidences of such movements come down to us , as in the Aryan conquests . Later we have the Mongol in- vasions , and numerous less extensive advances . But the move- ment of the Cossack has not the torrent rush of these invading hordes ...
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... evidence - that which is derived from nature herself - and to accept such as rests on a most slender and tottering foundation . Several decades have now passed by since the geologist was able to show that the earth must have been in ...
... evidence - that which is derived from nature herself - and to accept such as rests on a most slender and tottering foundation . Several decades have now passed by since the geologist was able to show that the earth must have been in ...
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... evidence that tradition cannot ascend to the origin of our species . To the man that lived during this early period of the human race , we may say in the language of the poet's " Address to a Mummy , ' Antiquity appears to have begun ...
... evidence that tradition cannot ascend to the origin of our species . To the man that lived during this early period of the human race , we may say in the language of the poet's " Address to a Mummy , ' Antiquity appears to have begun ...
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Page 246 - ... of it gilt; these dishes were received by a gentleman in the same order they were brought, and placed upon the table, while the Lady Taster gave to each of the guard a mouthful to eat, of the particular dish he had brought, for fear of any poison.
Page 107 - But never mind;—" God save the king!" and kings! For if he don't, I doubt if men will longer — I think I hear a little bird, who sings The people by and by will be the stronger...
Page 172 - Including a Complete List of Words that are spelt in two or more ways. An Explanatory and Pronouncing Vocabulary of the Names of Noted Fictitious Persons and Places, te.
Page 8 - The human form and the human mind attained to a perfection in Greece which has impressed its image on those faultless productions, whose very fragments are the despair of modern art, and has propagated impulses which cannot cease, through a thousand channels of manifest or imperceptible operation, to ennoble and delight mankind until the extinction of the race.
Page 224 - Wit, ingenuity, and learning in verse, even elegancy itself, though that comes nearest, are one thing ; true native poetry is another, in which there is a certain air and spirit, which, perhaps, the most learned and judicious in other arts do not perfectly apprehend; much less is it attainable by any art or study.
Page 274 - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist: in the one, we most admire the man ; in the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence.
Page 327 - The fearfull bird his little house now builds In trees and walls, in Cities and in fields. The outside strong, the inside warm and neat; A natural Artificer compleat.
Page 142 - Steenstrup and other good authorities, have amounted to at least 4000 years ; and there is nothing in the observed rate of the growth of peat opposed to the conclusion that the number of centuries may not have been four times as great, even though the signs of man's existence have not yet been traced down to the lowest or amorphous stratum. As to the
Page 329 - with little study, to write in seven languages. I feast myself with the sweets of all the sciences, which the more polite part of mankind ordinarily pretend to. I am entertained with all kinds of histories, ancient and modern. I am no stranger to the curiosities which, by all sorts of learning, are brought to the curious. These intellectual pleasures are far beyond any sensual ones.
Page 33 - ... quite conscious of all that was happening. It was like what patients partially under the influence of chloroform describe, who see all the operation, but feel not the knife. This singular condition was not the result of any mental process. The shake annihilated fear, and allowed no sense of horror in looking round at the beast. This peculiar state is probably produced in all animals killed by the carnivora ; and if so, is a merciful provision by our benevolent Creator for lessening the pain of...