Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volumes 51-52John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1861 - American periodicals |
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... nature raised him to high rank , and intrusted of the Druse religion , and the infamous him with the conduct of the most impor- career of him to whom they look up as tant affairs , so that the viziers , command- their Messiah , the last ...
... nature raised him to high rank , and intrusted of the Druse religion , and the infamous him with the conduct of the most impor- career of him to whom they look up as tant affairs , so that the viziers , command- their Messiah , the last ...
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... nature were shaken ; it seemed as if her bonds were loos- ened , and the hour had arrived for the com- mencement of a new era . On the night of the fifth of February , whilst the earth was still con- vulsed , a meteor burst , and swept ...
... nature were shaken ; it seemed as if her bonds were loos- ened , and the hour had arrived for the com- mencement of a new era . On the night of the fifth of February , whilst the earth was still con- vulsed , a meteor burst , and swept ...
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... natural theater on which Girgenti stands ! Nine temples , baths , tombs , and other buildings are enumerated as still ... nature are made mutually to enhance each other . From what- ever point we view the temples , they are a glo- rious ...
... natural theater on which Girgenti stands ! Nine temples , baths , tombs , and other buildings are enumerated as still ... nature are made mutually to enhance each other . From what- ever point we view the temples , they are a glo- rious ...
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... nature of many of its operations , and the extreme tension to which all classes of the commu- nity are subjected in the unceasing strug gle for position and even life , has resulted in a cerebral excitement under which the finely ...
... nature of many of its operations , and the extreme tension to which all classes of the commu- nity are subjected in the unceasing strug gle for position and even life , has resulted in a cerebral excitement under which the finely ...
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... nature upon him . He in this condition he remained for several had suffered the operation of trephining , years , when his mental power was sud- and his brain was covered by a thin denly restored . The first question he membrane only ...
... nature upon him . He in this condition he remained for several had suffered the operation of trephining , years , when his mental power was sud- and his brain was covered by a thin denly restored . The first question he membrane only ...
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Page 141 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 511 - And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
Page 509 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Page 2 - The voice of the Lord is powerful, the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars ; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
Page 506 - This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I...
Page 141 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 507 - I wage not any feud with Death For changes wrought on form and face; No lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him, can fright my faith. Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one.
Page 564 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Page 508 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own ; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Page 508 - Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.