The Quarterly Review, Volume 28John Murray, 1823 |
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... Paris . THIS work is characteristic of its author . It bears ample proofs of his frankness and benevolence , as well as of his inconsis- tency and enormous prejudices , political and religious , of his weak judgment and warm heart . M ...
... Paris . THIS work is characteristic of its author . It bears ample proofs of his frankness and benevolence , as well as of his inconsis- tency and enormous prejudices , political and religious , of his weak judgment and warm heart . M ...
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... Paris by her personal accomplishments and her talents . She wrote some novels , of which she repented when her life had been , as she believed , preserved by a miracle . From that time her writings were upon devotional subjects , and ...
... Paris by her personal accomplishments and her talents . She wrote some novels , of which she repented when her life had been , as she believed , preserved by a miracle . From that time her writings were upon devotional subjects , and ...
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... Paris , the clergy , secular as well as regular , would be abased , and the sanctu- aries abolished , to punish the offences of those who ought to have been the ornament and glory of the church . When all was fulfilled , the Victims ...
... Paris , the clergy , secular as well as regular , would be abased , and the sanctu- aries abolished , to punish the offences of those who ought to have been the ornament and glory of the church . When all was fulfilled , the Victims ...
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... Paris . And M. Gregoire says , it is certain , that at this time both Mademoiselles Brohon and Labrousse have their believers in that city , and not among the ignorant and vulgar only , but those who occupy or have occupied honourable ...
... Paris . And M. Gregoire says , it is certain , that at this time both Mademoiselles Brohon and Labrousse have their believers in that city , and not among the ignorant and vulgar only , but those who occupy or have occupied honourable ...
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... Paris . This person , who has obtained so singular and lasting a cele- brity , was a humble - minded , worthy man , bigoted to Jansenism . Having appealed against the bull Unigenitus , he thought it his duty not to receive priests ...
... Paris . This person , who has obtained so singular and lasting a cele- brity , was a humble - minded , worthy man , bigoted to Jansenism . Having appealed against the bull Unigenitus , he thought it his duty not to receive priests ...
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Página 392 - Doctor particularly remarked the sepulchral tone of our voices, which he requested us to make more cheerful if possible, unconscious that his own partook of the same key.
Página 267 - A Speech delivered on the 24th of May, 1822, before the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, explanatory of the Measures which have been successfully pursued in St. John's Parish, Glasgow, for the Extinction of its compulsory Pauperism; with an Appendix.
Página 266 - Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs discoverable in Modern Italy and Sicily.
Página 395 - Upon entering the now desolate building we had the satisfaction of embracing Captain Franklin, but no words can convey an idea of the filth and wretchedness that met our eyes on looking around. Our own misery had stolen upon us by degrees and we were accustomed to the contemplation of each other's emaciated figures, but the ghastly countenances, dilated eyeballs, and sepulchral voices of Captain Franklin and those with him were more than we could at first bear.
Página 157 - ... since all the lands in question being indisputably acknowledged to belong of right to the Crown of Spain, no settlements of that kind, or the population which would follow, could be allowed.
Página 8 - Surely the Lord is in this place. This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Página 379 - Indeed, we have already mentioned, that the heat is abstracted most rapidly from the body during strong breezes, and most of those who have perished from cold in this country, have fallen a sacrifice to their being overtaken on a lake or other unsheltered place, by a storm of wind. The intense colds were, however, detrimental to us in another way. The trees froze to their very centres, and became as hard as stones, and more difficult to cut. Some of the axes were broken daily, and by the end of the...
Página 318 - ... hill was comprised under this name,) seems unquestionably to have been the northern summit; and in this Mr. Burton acquiesces. Now it follows that the title of Capitolinus was much more appropriate to Jupiter when seated on the Capitolium than on the Arx. 2d. The passage in Virgil, where the actual appearance of the hill is contrasted with what it was under Evander, leads to the same conclusion : — ' Hinc ad Tarpeiam sedem, et Capitolia ducit, Aurea nunc, olim sylvestribus horrida dumis.' The...
Página 528 - Light, a stream from the fountain of heavenly Wisdom and Love. This is the evidence which sustains the faith of thousands, who never read and cannot understand the learned books of Christian apologists, who want, perhaps, words to explain the ground of their belief, but whose faith is of adamantine firmness, who hold the gospel with a conviction more intimate and unwavering than mere arguments ever produced.
Página 465 - Unexampled barbarity to leave an unhappy and sickly infant eight years old in a great room, locked and bolted in, with no other resource than a broken bell which he never rang, so greatly did he dread the people whom its sound would have brought to him ! He preferred wanting everything to the sight of his persecutors.