The Edinburgh Review, Volumen114A. and C. Black, 1861 |
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... or Life in Iceland at the end of the Tenth Century . From the Icelandic of the Njal's Saga . By George Webbe Dasent , D.C.L. 2 vols . 8vo . Edinburgh : 1861 , • 348 370 394 425 VII . - 1 . The Province of Jurisprudence Determined.
... or Life in Iceland at the end of the Tenth Century . From the Icelandic of the Njal's Saga . By George Webbe Dasent , D.C.L. 2 vols . 8vo . Edinburgh : 1861 , • 348 370 394 425 VII . - 1 . The Province of Jurisprudence Determined.
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... century , both in the extent of the provision made for the education of the poorer classes , and in their appreciation of its worth . ' We confess , however , that we receive these figures with very great distrust . We do not believe ...
... century , both in the extent of the provision made for the education of the poorer classes , and in their appreciation of its worth . ' We confess , however , that we receive these figures with very great distrust . We do not believe ...
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... century . Yet under circumstances so various , there was doubtless some touch of kinsmanship between these eccentric and ardent minds ; life to both of them was a hard master ; a vein of fierce irony runs through their works ; and they ...
... century . Yet under circumstances so various , there was doubtless some touch of kinsmanship between these eccentric and ardent minds ; life to both of them was a hard master ; a vein of fierce irony runs through their works ; and they ...
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... century of warfare , during which the balance of fortune continually oscillated , had to a great extent destroyed the material prosperity of the island , and proved fatal to the enterprising commercial spirit which had animated the ...
... century of warfare , during which the balance of fortune continually oscillated , had to a great extent destroyed the material prosperity of the island , and proved fatal to the enterprising commercial spirit which had animated the ...
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... century , to be transformed from a single important city in an existing kingdom , to the sole seat of civilisation in a country inhabited partly by a rude peasantry , partly by large flock - masters , we shall have no very bad image of ...
... century , to be transformed from a single important city in an existing kingdom , to the sole seat of civilisation in a country inhabited partly by a rude peasantry , partly by large flock - masters , we shall have no very bad image of ...
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Página 21 - Not to covet nor desire other men's goods ; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
Página 176 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Página 20 - And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
Página 559 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Página 520 - WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right That music of my nature, day and night With dream and thought and feeling interwound, And inly answering all the senses round With octaves of a mystic depth and height Which step out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground...
Página 212 - AFRICA. Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa : with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chase of the Gorilla, the Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and other Animals.
Página 552 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Página 561 - But if the Government be National with regard to the operation of its powers, it changes its aspect again when we contemplate it in relation to the extent of its powers. The idea of a National Government involves in it, not only an authority over the individual citizens, but an indefinite supremacy over all persons and things, so far as they are objects of lawful Government.
Página 515 - And I think of those long mornings Which my thought goes far to seek, When, betwixt the folio's turnings, Solemn flowed the rhythmic Greek. Past the pane, the mountain spreading, Swept the sheep-bell's tinkling noise, While a girlish voice was reading Somewhat low for ai's and oit.
Página 416 - That prelacy and the superiority of any office in the Church above presbyters is and hath been a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people ever since the Reformation (they having reformed from popery by presbyters), and therefore ought to be abolished...