The North British Review, Volume 15W.P. Kennedy, 1851 - English literature |
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... nature humaine se déployèrent ainsi sans qu'elle brisât tous ses freins . " The English political reformers were ... natural to the human heart , and inseparable from its healthy action . After this happiness we all strive , though with ...
... nature humaine se déployèrent ainsi sans qu'elle brisât tous ses freins . " The English political reformers were ... natural to the human heart , and inseparable from its healthy action . After this happiness we all strive , though with ...
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... nature and the locality of the heaven we desire . Now the French - that is , that active and energetic portion of ... natural , it is logical , it is inevitable for those who hold this dreary creed to scout as insults those cautions as ...
... nature and the locality of the heaven we desire . Now the French - that is , that active and energetic portion of ... natural , it is logical , it is inevitable for those who hold this dreary creed to scout as insults those cautions as ...
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... nature to receive its full development on earth , we must set to work at once , at all hazards , and in spite of all ... natural aptitude and intellectual culture ; the advocates , surgeons , artists , journa- lists , and men of letters ...
... nature to receive its full development on earth , we must set to work at once , at all hazards , and in spite of all ... natural aptitude and intellectual culture ; the advocates , surgeons , artists , journa- lists , and men of letters ...
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... natural passions preached up as venial , to say the least ; not only is the conjugal tie habitually ridiculed or ... nature , and could never have presented itself to a sound or healthy fancy ; to depict some monstrous criminal , and ...
... natural passions preached up as venial , to say the least ; not only is the conjugal tie habitually ridiculed or ... nature , and could never have presented itself to a sound or healthy fancy ; to depict some monstrous criminal , and ...
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... natural principles , without the recognition of any superna- tural Revelation , and even , perhaps , of any supernatural Being . He attempts to do so by applying the theory of myths alike to the systems of Polytheism and the Scriptures ...
... natural principles , without the recognition of any superna- tural Revelation , and even , perhaps , of any supernatural Being . He attempts to do so by applying the theory of myths alike to the systems of Polytheism and the Scriptures ...
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Page 263 - Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal; and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate, hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual within...
Page 336 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Page 337 - Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 263 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify ; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be ecclesiastical or temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil doers.
Page 263 - Where we attribute to the queen's majesty the chief government, by which titles we understand the minds of some slanderous folks to be offended: we give not to our princes the ministering either of God's word or of the sacraments...
Page 164 - That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to direct...
Page 452 - ... on you, from the great inner Sea of Beauty! How could the rude Earth make these, if her Essence, rugged as she looks and is, were not inwardly Beauty ? In this point of view, too, a saying of Goethe's, which has staggered several, may have meaning: "The Beautiful," he intimates, "is higher than the Good: the Beautiful includes in it the Good.
Page 453 - OH yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 410 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul ; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Page 452 - Poet on what the Germans call the aesthetic side, as Beautiful, and the like. The one we may call a revealer of what we are to do, the other of what we are to love. But indeed these two provinces run into one another, and cannot be disjoined. The Prophet too has his eye on what we are to love: how else shall he know what it is we are to do? The highest Voice ever heard on this earth said withal, "Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was...