First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 Seiten |
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... thing that exceedingly resembles it in that actual economy of change and revolution manifested in English history for the last two cen- turies . It would seem as if events , in their downward course , had come under the influence of ...
... thing that exceedingly resembles it in that actual economy of change and revolution manifested in English history for the last two cen- turies . It would seem as if events , in their downward course , had come under the influence of ...
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... things seen and heard , than of aught else . They index , however , not much of what he might be led equally to expect , those diagnostic symp- toms impressed on the face of society , that indicate the extensive changes , secular and ...
... things seen and heard , than of aught else . They index , however , not much of what he might be led equally to expect , those diagnostic symp- toms impressed on the face of society , that indicate the extensive changes , secular and ...
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... things that a man's cradle should have been rocked to the north of the Tweed ; and as I have been at less pains to suppress in my writings the peculiarities of the Scot and the Presbyterian than is perhaps common with my country- folk ...
... things that a man's cradle should have been rocked to the north of the Tweed ; and as I have been at less pains to suppress in my writings the peculiarities of the Scot and the Presbyterian than is perhaps common with my country- folk ...
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... thing to the English Churchman from what it is to the Scot . - Reason why . -Independent Scotch Congregation in a Rural District . - Rarely well based ; and why . - Conclusion ........... ..384 FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND AND ITS ...
... thing to the English Churchman from what it is to the Scot . - Reason why . -Independent Scotch Congregation in a Rural District . - Rarely well based ; and why . - Conclusion ........... ..384 FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND AND ITS ...
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... things which obtained in this wild district for many hundred years . It seems , however , especially well for England , since the quarrel began at all , that it should have been so doggedly maintained by the weaker people , -so well ...
... things which obtained in this wild district for many hundred years . It seems , however , especially well for England , since the quarrel began at all , that it should have been so doggedly maintained by the weaker people , -so well ...
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Seite 253 - First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Seite 345 - Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Seite 309 - And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Seite 274 - Within the twilight of their distant shades; There, lost behind a rising ground, the wood Seems sunk, and shortened to its topmost boughs. No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar; paler some.
Seite 51 - mid th' unrustling reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, And listens oft to hear the passing steed, And frequent round him rolls his sullen eyes, If chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surprise.
Seite 211 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Seite 273 - So strong the zeal to immortalize himself Beats in the breast of man, that e'en a few, Few transient years, won from th' abyss abhorr'd Of blank oblivion, seem a glorious prize, And even to a clown. Now roves the eye ; And, posted on this speculative height, Exults in its command. The sheepfold here Pours out its fleecy tenants o'er the glebe.
Seite 309 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein ; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Seite 23 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.
Seite 116 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong; Her form each beauty of her mind express'd, Her mind was Virtue by the Graces dress'd.