Five Occasional Lectures: Delivered in MontrealJ. Lovell, 1859 - 118 sider |
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... writings not half - a - dozen of them will be found . " But perhaps few things are of more importance than the structure of the sentence ; not only to have them grammatically formed , and full of words rightly applied , but the whole ...
... writings not half - a - dozen of them will be found . " But perhaps few things are of more importance than the structure of the sentence ; not only to have them grammatically formed , and full of words rightly applied , but the whole ...
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... writing " The Tales of a Grandfather , " he entered into his Diary the follow- ing passage : - " A good thought came into my head to write " stories for little Johnie Lockhart , from ' the History of Scotland , ' “ like those taken from ...
... writing " The Tales of a Grandfather , " he entered into his Diary the follow- ing passage : - " A good thought came into my head to write " stories for little Johnie Lockhart , from ' the History of Scotland , ' “ like those taken from ...
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... writing that is needed , I am " reminded of a stanza in a wild Arab song , which runs thus : — 66 " Terrible he rode along , " With his Yemen sword for aid ; " Ornament it carried none , " But the notches on the blade . " So in the best ...
... writing that is needed , I am " reminded of a stanza in a wild Arab song , which runs thus : — 66 " Terrible he rode along , " With his Yemen sword for aid ; " Ornament it carried none , " But the notches on the blade . " So in the best ...
Side 65
... writing , the sublime lies in the thought , not in the words ; and when the thought is truly noble , it will for the most part clothe itself in a native dignity of language . Milton is simple in the midst of all his grandeur ; and Demos ...
... writing , the sublime lies in the thought , not in the words ; and when the thought is truly noble , it will for the most part clothe itself in a native dignity of language . Milton is simple in the midst of all his grandeur ; and Demos ...
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... writing it , he would not fear the loss of his labor . The employment detached him from the bustle and hurry of life , the din of politics and the noise of folly ; vanity and vexation flew away for a season , care and disquietude came ...
... writing it , he would not fear the loss of his labor . The employment detached him from the bustle and hurry of life , the din of politics and the noise of folly ; vanity and vexation flew away for a season , care and disquietude came ...
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Side 92 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll, When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead ! O, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away!
Side 107 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Side 110 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Side 113 - Scripture is not yet understood, so if it ever comes to be understood, before the ' restitution of all things,' and without miraculous interposition, — it must be in the same way as natural knowledge is come at, by the continuance and progress of learning and liberty ; and by particular persons attending to, comparing and pursuing, intimations scattered up and down it, which are overlooked and disregarded by the generality of the world.
Side 114 - Nor is it at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena and the same faculties of investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind several thousand years before- And possibly it might be intended, that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several...
Side 74 - Syria's thousand minarets ! The boy has started from the bed Of flowers where he had laid his head, And down upon the fragrant sod Kneels, with his forehead to the south, Lisping th...
Side 13 - THE visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Side 75 - There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones, "thou blessed child! When, young and haply pure as thou, I looked and prayed like thee; but now — " He hung his head; each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept!
Side 98 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Side 94 - There's; one in that poor shed — One by that paltry bed — Greater than thou. Beneath that beggar's roof, Lo ! death doth keep his state : Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards defend This palace gate.