The Library Magazine, Volume 3John B. Alden, 1887 |
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... continued to resemble that of Omar's tribesmen in face of the Gręco - Syrian populations - a caste of dominant con- querors who had not yet entirely aban- doned the nomadic life of the desert , and who ruled a populace more civilized in ...
... continued to resemble that of Omar's tribesmen in face of the Gręco - Syrian populations - a caste of dominant con- querors who had not yet entirely aban- doned the nomadic life of the desert , and who ruled a populace more civilized in ...
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... continued by each high priest in succession , recording the most striking events of his tenure of power ; and in the Talmud the Gemara is still printed ing the original than was the case in round the original text of the Mishnah in a ...
... continued by each high priest in succession , recording the most striking events of his tenure of power ; and in the Talmud the Gemara is still printed ing the original than was the case in round the original text of the Mishnah in a ...
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... continued for years , it is ing men only : the government of going on still . The emigrants go to Turkey is vile , cruel , and corrupt , and fill up the gaps made by the war . it must go . For the moment I will They do not for the most ...
... continued for years , it is ing men only : the government of going on still . The emigrants go to Turkey is vile , cruel , and corrupt , and fill up the gaps made by the war . it must go . For the moment I will They do not for the most ...
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... continued through- out the whole of the Middle Ages to exchange with fresh additions and re- newed violence , does no credit to either side . Supposing that some philosopher belonging to some newly - created and altogether alien race ...
... continued through- out the whole of the Middle Ages to exchange with fresh additions and re- newed violence , does no credit to either side . Supposing that some philosopher belonging to some newly - created and altogether alien race ...
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... continued effort to put in the Christian religion , spreading and practice the celebrated principle preserving Christian civilization . The enunciated in Italy by Cavour : Byzantine monks went forth to preach " Chiesa libera in Stato ...
... continued effort to put in the Christian religion , spreading and practice the celebrated principle preserving Christian civilization . The enunciated in Italy by Cavour : Byzantine monks went forth to preach " Chiesa libera in Stato ...
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Page 542 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 457 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 107 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 542 - God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 534 - Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music - subtle, sweet, mournful?
Page 276 - I give and bequeath, in perpetuity, the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac company (under the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginia), toward the endowment of a University, to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the general government...
Page 536 - FROM the time that I became a Catholic, of course I have no further history of my religious opinions to narrate. In saying this, I do not mean to say that my mind has been idle, or that I have given up thinking on theological subjects; but that I have had no variations to record, and have had no anxiety of heart whatever.
Page 542 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice, "Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd, "I have felt.
Page 554 - ... errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature. The boat at St.
Page 530 - An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities. The wise man of the Stoics would, no doubt, be a grander object than a steam-engine. But there are steam-engines. And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born.