The History of the Anglo-Saxons: Comprising the History of England from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest, Volumes 1-2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1823 |
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... reason desires ; which Christi- anity now enjoins ; and which our best sympathies suggest . Superstition , irreligion , and despotism increase , as the moral attachments to probity and order lessen ; and yet by their increase assist to ...
... reason desires ; which Christi- anity now enjoins ; and which our best sympathies suggest . Superstition , irreligion , and despotism increase , as the moral attachments to probity and order lessen ; and yet by their increase assist to ...
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... reasons for attacking Britain was that it had assisted the Keltic Gauls to resist him . He speaks also of its being visited by the Keltic merchants ; and before his invasion of Bri- tain , he sent one of the Keltic princes of Gaul ...
... reasons for attacking Britain was that it had assisted the Keltic Gauls to resist him . He speaks also of its being visited by the Keltic merchants ; and before his invasion of Bri- tain , he sent one of the Keltic princes of Gaul ...
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... reason to change its insular appellation . In our navigations to the Pacific , new- discovered places have been at ... reasons for supposing the Cassiterides to be the Scilly islands are thus stated in Camden's Britannia . They are oppo ...
... reason to change its insular appellation . In our navigations to the Pacific , new- discovered places have been at ... reasons for supposing the Cassiterides to be the Scilly islands are thus stated in Camden's Britannia . They are oppo ...
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... reason to disbelieve the opin- ion , that the Carthaginians had the same inter- course with the British islands which the Phenicians established . The voyage of Himilco warrants the supposition . This Carthaginian officer sailed from ...
... reason to disbelieve the opin- ion , that the Carthaginians had the same inter- course with the British islands which the Phenicians established . The voyage of Himilco warrants the supposition . This Carthaginian officer sailed from ...
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... reason , placed on fortified hills . The wars of fierce and rude men , unacquainted with military discipline , or disdaining to submit to it , usually consist of attempts to surprise and ravage ; and therefore precautions against sudden ...
... reason , placed on fortified hills . The wars of fierce and rude men , unacquainted with military discipline , or disdaining to submit to it , usually consist of attempts to surprise and ravage ; and therefore precautions against sudden ...
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Página 448 - THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these, Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart, is joy.
Página 452 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must with some hesitation be allowed to Dryden.
Página 450 - How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ? The world forgetting, by the world forgot : Eternal sun-shine of the spotless mind ! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd ; Labour and rest, that equal periods keep ; ' Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep ;' Desires composed, affections ever even ; Tears that delight,' and sighs that waft to heav'n.
Página 451 - IN the second century of the Christian ^Era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
Página 448 - When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled. And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
Página 46 - O THOU, whose power o'er moving worlds presides ! Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides ! On darkling man, in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine.
Página 447 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew: fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Página 448 - And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
Página 447 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Página 447 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...