The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 32Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1854 - American literature |
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... effect a fusion between all that was best in the nation . After the Cent Jours , M. Guizot held a similar position , but retired when the ministry of the Marquis Barbč Marbois was over- thrown . In 1816 he presented a memoir to Louis ...
... effect a fusion between all that was best in the nation . After the Cent Jours , M. Guizot held a similar position , but retired when the ministry of the Marquis Barbč Marbois was over- thrown . In 1816 he presented a memoir to Louis ...
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... effect a neutral marriage , he had equally failed to get the question postponed , and he was now driven to act as he did or to receive a check . He took the step with regret , for he plainly discerned a part at least of the heavy price ...
... effect a neutral marriage , he had equally failed to get the question postponed , and he was now driven to act as he did or to receive a check . He took the step with regret , for he plainly discerned a part at least of the heavy price ...
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... effect , and has- tens the catastrophe . It was by this that Wilberforce gained the abolition of the slave- trade . He spoke against the slave - trade as if it were blotting out the sun in the heaven , and as if hell were but its shadow ...
... effect , and has- tens the catastrophe . It was by this that Wilberforce gained the abolition of the slave- trade . He spoke against the slave - trade as if it were blotting out the sun in the heaven , and as if hell were but its shadow ...
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... effect a passage to India by Africa , in order to rival Italy , at that time carrying on her trade by the Mediterranean and Red Sea . Then the beautiful ocean islands were first revealed to Europe , and imagination filled with the idea ...
... effect a passage to India by Africa , in order to rival Italy , at that time carrying on her trade by the Mediterranean and Red Sea . Then the beautiful ocean islands were first revealed to Europe , and imagination filled with the idea ...
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... effect an exit for his ship , That was in 1822. In 1824 he was again leading an expedition of greater magnitude than any yet undertaken . With the Hecla and Fury he was to search Regent's Inlet for a passage westward ; while the heroic ...
... effect an exit for his ship , That was in 1822. In 1824 he was again leading an expedition of greater magnitude than any yet undertaken . With the Hecla and Fury he was to search Regent's Inlet for a passage westward ; while the heroic ...
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Page 117 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 360 - I praise the Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd—. How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet.
Page 525 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 208 - TEACH me, my God and King, In all things thee to see, And what I do in any thing, To do it as for thee...
Page 526 - For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Page 526 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging : and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Page 410 - There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme, He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders, The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching Till he learns the .distinction 'twixt singing and preaching...
Page 350 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 415 - Gentleman, simmer it well, Sweeten just to your own private liking, then strain, That only the finest and clearest remain, Let it stand out of doors till a soul it receives From the warm lazy sun loitering down through green leaves, And you'll find a choice nature, not wholly deserving A name either English or Yankee, — just Irving.
Page 402 - In time the mind comes to reflect on its own operations about the ideas got by sensation, and thereby stores itself with a new set of ideas, which I call ideas of reflection.