Lectures Delivered in America in 1874

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Longmans, Green, 1875 - America - 149 pages
 

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Page 60 - When he appointed the foundations of the earth., then I was by him, as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.
Page 25 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Page 117 - I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Page 118 - am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God 5 beside me : I girded thee, though thou hast not known me : That they may know from the rising of the sun, and 6 from the west, that there is none beside me : I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness : I make peace. 7 and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Page 119 - Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden ; they are a burden to the weary beast. They stoop, they bow down together ; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
Page 143 - Who taught mankind on that first Christmas Day, What 'twas to be a man ; to give, not take ; To serve, not rule ; to nourish, not devour ; To help, not crush ; if need, to die, not live.
Page 37 - ... the Chorus ranged with measured dance and song, chanting, to the sound of a simple flute, odes such as the world had never heard before or since, save perhaps in the temple-worship at Jerusalem. A chorus now, as you know, means merely any number of persons singing in full harmony on any subject. The Chorus was then in tragedy, and indeed in the higher comedy, what Schlegel well calls " the ideal spectator " — a personified reflection on the action going on, the incorporation into the representation...
Page 95 - Let me see thy wound." Then Thormod sat down, and the girl saw his wounds, and that which was in his side, and saw that there was a piece of iron in it; but could not tell where it had gone. In a stone pot she had leeks and other herbs, and boiled them, and gave the wounded man of it to eat. But Thormod said, "Take it away; I have no appetite now for my broth.
Page 10 - ... home of the people of England and the most venerated fabric of the English Church — is not so much its glory as the seat of the coronations or as the sepulchre of the kings ; not so much its school, or its monastery, or its chapter, or its sanctuary, as the fact that it is the resting-place of famous Englishmen, from every rank and creed and every form of mind and genius.
Page 118 - Who saith to Cyrus, Thou art my shepherd ! And he shall fulfil all my pleasure : Who saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; And to the Temple, Thy foundations shall be laid.

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