The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 174Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1843 - English essays |
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Page 189 - Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race, derived from a Comparison of the Languages of Asia, Europe, Africa, and America ; being an Inquiry how far the differences in the Languages of the Globe are referrible to causes now in operation. By ARTHUR JAMES JOHNES, esq.
Page 140 - then two priests bearing each a silver cross ; then a gentleman usher bareheaded, accompanied with a serjeant-atarms, bearing a silver mace ; then two gentlemen bearing two great silver pillars ; after them side by side, the two Cardinals Wolsey and Campeius, two noblemen with the sword and mace ; then enter the King and Queen and their trains,
Page 140 - Enter two vergers with short silver wands ; next them two scribes in the habits of doctors ; after them the Archbishop of Canterbury alone ; after him the Bishops of Lincoln, Ely, Rochester, and St. Asaph; next them, with some small distance, follows a gentleman bearing the purse with the great seal
Page 475 - sacred clouds that have no darkness, and only exist to illumine, were seen in fathomless intervals, between the solemn and orbed repose of the stone pines, passing to lose themselves in the last, white, blinding lustre of the measureless line where the Campagna melted into the blaze of the sea.
Page 474 - fearfully dyed from above with the indistinguishable images of the burning clouds, which fall upon them in flakes of crimson and scarlet, and give to the reckless waves the added motion of their own fiery flying. Purple and blue, the lurid shadows of the hollow breakers are cast upon the mist of
Page 611 - • Celui qui met un frein à la fureur des flots, Sait aussi des méchants arrêter les complots. Soumis avec respect à la volonté sainte, Je crains Dieu, cher
Page 520 - no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest : for, by the immediate hand of an avenging God, his very thinking substance has for more than seven years been continually wasting away, till it is wholly perished out of him.
Page 499 - Then 1 saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven, as well as from the City of Destruction. So 1 awoke and
Page 19 - very remarkable in his countenance*—the commandments were written on his face, and I have often told him there was not a crime he might not commit with impunity, as no judge or jury who saw him would give the smallest degree of credit to any evidence against him : there was in
Page 475 - up the infinity of its arches like the bridge of Chaos. But as I climbed the long slope of the Alban Mount the storm swept finally to the North, and the noble outline of the domes of Albano, and