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... seems to pass before our eyes . In this respect he is greatly inferior to his two northern rivals . Their histories are read with an interest which is quite independent on the desire of informa- tion . We are imperceptibly drawn along ...
... seems to pass before our eyes . In this respect he is greatly inferior to his two northern rivals . Their histories are read with an interest which is quite independent on the desire of informa- tion . We are imperceptibly drawn along ...
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... seem generally to have been left to ar- range themselves at the time of composing . Instead of paint- ing ... seems to have bestowed much more labour upon the collo- cation of words , than upon that of events ; he was far more ...
... seem generally to have been left to ar- range themselves at the time of composing . Instead of paint- ing ... seems to have bestowed much more labour upon the collo- cation of words , than upon that of events ; he was far more ...
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... seems to have been , that there was no thought , however original or complicated , which he could not force to assume a decent verbal dress : ' If you have thoughts , and can't express them , Gibbon will teach you how to dress them ...
... seems to have been , that there was no thought , however original or complicated , which he could not force to assume a decent verbal dress : ' If you have thoughts , and can't express them , Gibbon will teach you how to dress them ...
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... seems never to have intended his work for the benefit of the profanum vulgus , but to have written chiefly for scholars , or the higher ranks of society . Another peculiarity in the style of Gibbon , is , that for the sake of variety ...
... seems never to have intended his work for the benefit of the profanum vulgus , but to have written chiefly for scholars , or the higher ranks of society . Another peculiarity in the style of Gibbon , is , that for the sake of variety ...
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... seems to have always taken it as an axiom , —at least a position which no man but himself was entitled to question , - that weak evidence could be helped out by ecclesiastical decî- sion , and that the strongest was defective if it ...
... seems to have always taken it as an axiom , —at least a position which no man but himself was entitled to question , - that weak evidence could be helped out by ecclesiastical decî- sion , and that the strongest was defective if it ...
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Page 557 - To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's cheek — There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 559 - And with low voice and doleful look These words did say : . In the touch of this bosom there worketh a spell, Which is lord of thy utterance, Christabel ! Thou knowest to-night, and wilt know to-morrow This mark of my shame, this seal of my sorrow ; But vainly thou warrest, For this is alone in Thy power to declare, That in the dim forest Thou heard'st a low moaning, And found' st a bright lady, surpassingly fair ; And didst bring her home with thee in love and in charity To shield her and shelter...
Page 556 - Tis the middle of night by the castle clock, And the owls have awakened the crowing cock ; Tu— whit ! Tu— whoo ! And hark, again ! the crowing cock, How drowsily it crew.
Page 267 - There is something of pride in the perilous hour, Whate'er be the shape in which death may lower ; For Fame is there to say who bleeds, And Honour's eye on daring deeds ! But when all is past, it is humbling to tread O'er the weltering field of the tombless dead, And see worms of the earth, and fowls of the air, Beasts of the forest, all gathering there ; All regarding man as their prey, All rejoicing in his decay.
Page 181 - If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his Son.
Page 441 - Be immersed, every one of you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Page 557 - Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. The lovely lady, Christabel, Whom her father loves so well, What makes her in the wood so late, A furlong from the castle gate? She had dreams all yesternight Of her own betrothed knight ; And she in the midnight wood will pray For the weal of her lover that's far away.
Page 279 - ... loved them, and washed them from their sins in his own blood, and rejoicing in hope of the glory of God.
Page 245 - Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth, and he that has never seen them, must live unacquainted with much of the face of nature, and with one of the great scenes of human existence.
Page 424 - they are made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven...