The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 7J. Ridgeway and sons, 1838 - English periodicals |
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... original Monguls ? while in Hindustan and Egypt , alluvial " plains , subject to inundation , the early inhabitants , obliged " to keep to the highlands , and store their food in caves , " made their buildings afterwards to suit their ...
... original Monguls ? while in Hindustan and Egypt , alluvial " plains , subject to inundation , the early inhabitants , obliged " to keep to the highlands , and store their food in caves , " made their buildings afterwards to suit their ...
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... original ; living , too , in that remarkable æra when the expected Mille- nium had passed over without any awful summons from the other world , and when the tide of pilgrims who had hastened to Jerusalem from the ends of the earth , to ...
... original ; living , too , in that remarkable æra when the expected Mille- nium had passed over without any awful summons from the other world , and when the tide of pilgrims who had hastened to Jerusalem from the ends of the earth , to ...
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... original main cause we would always look for in the general spirit of the age . It appears from all history , that the collective mind of a whole race os- cillates like that of an individual . We find , at any given pe- riod , one ...
... original main cause we would always look for in the general spirit of the age . It appears from all history , that the collective mind of a whole race os- cillates like that of an individual . We find , at any given pe- riod , one ...
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... original use and destination . Finally , as if in utter despair , some have relapsed into an admiration of the old scroll - work , the old French style , of which the French had become ashamed , and which they had rejected . No one ...
... original use and destination . Finally , as if in utter despair , some have relapsed into an admiration of the old scroll - work , the old French style , of which the French had become ashamed , and which they had rejected . No one ...
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... original , should truly deserve the appellation of Our Own . ” — Page 561 . This comprehensive recipe of Mr. Hope's for making a new style we cannot exactly approve of ; to borrow all that is useful or ornamental from every style ...
... original , should truly deserve the appellation of Our Own . ” — Page 561 . This comprehensive recipe of Mr. Hope's for making a new style we cannot exactly approve of ; to borrow all that is useful or ornamental from every style ...
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Page 196 - His Britannic majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada, he will, consequently, give the most precise and most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion, according to the rites of the Romish Church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Page 178 - King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Page 179 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Page 364 - ... and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing ; and every word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male.
Page 316 - For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God : but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman ; but the woman for the man.
Page 319 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives, while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Page 175 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 317 - Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Page 178 - God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better ordering and Preservation and Furtherance of the ends aforesaid; And by virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 196 - Majesty, in full right, Canada, with all its dependencies, as well as the Island of Cape Breton, and all the other islands and coasts in the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence...