The Quarterly Review, Volume 77William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1846 - English literature |
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... mind of one thing - the Pope , as your Majesty well knoweth , is a prince , as you are , in league with all other Christian princes : it may hereafter fall out that your Grace and he may vary upon some points of the league , whereupon ...
... mind of one thing - the Pope , as your Majesty well knoweth , is a prince , as you are , in league with all other Christian princes : it may hereafter fall out that your Grace and he may vary upon some points of the league , whereupon ...
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... mind . If he adhered conscientiously to the faith in which he had been educated , he can in no instance be blamed for the course he pursued . No good Roman Catholic could declare that the King's first marriage had been absolutely void ...
... mind . If he adhered conscientiously to the faith in which he had been educated , he can in no instance be blamed for the course he pursued . No good Roman Catholic could declare that the King's first marriage had been absolutely void ...
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... mind - basely intriguing in the meanwhile for further promotion , and writing secret letters to his Sovereign to disparage his rivals - riding proudly between the Lord High Treasurer and Lord Privy Seal , pre- ceded by his mace - bearer ...
... mind - basely intriguing in the meanwhile for further promotion , and writing secret letters to his Sovereign to disparage his rivals - riding proudly between the Lord High Treasurer and Lord Privy Seal , pre- ceded by his mace - bearer ...
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... mind of all prejudice . We can expect no better . The literary skill of the composition is also much to be ad- mired . He has managed to reproduce general history in a series of professional biographies , without almost ever exposing ...
... mind of all prejudice . We can expect no better . The literary skill of the composition is also much to be ad- mired . He has managed to reproduce general history in a series of professional biographies , without almost ever exposing ...
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... mind in utter ment was come to . obscurity . ' Historians profess themselves wholly at a loss to account for the open , imperious , and frantic manner in which Cromwell a few hours after expelled the members from the House , -which they ...
... mind in utter ment was come to . obscurity . ' Historians profess themselves wholly at a loss to account for the open , imperious , and frantic manner in which Cromwell a few hours after expelled the members from the House , -which they ...
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Page 386 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 248 - Wherefore, O LORD and heavenly FATHER, according to the institution of Thy dearly beloved SON, our SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, we Thy humble servants do celebrate and make here before Thy Divine Majesty, with these Thy holy gifts, which we now offer unto Thee, the memorial Thy SON hath commanded us to make; having in remembrance His blessed passion and precious death, His mighty resurrection and glorious ascension, rendering unto Thee most hearty thanks for the innumerable benefits procured unto us by...
Page 254 - Search then the ruling passion : there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest.
Page 327 - Tis, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise ; but, to converse with heaven, This is not easy : to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from this world, I deem not arduous ; but must needs confess That 'tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desires ; And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul...
Page 231 - tis the trading and inferior sort that are for Presbytery : wherefore he bids me tell you, that if you will undertake to serve him to the purpose that he is served here in England, he will take you by the hand, support the Church and Order, and throw off the Presbyterians.
Page 19 - This law was made by Utopus, not only for preserving the public peace, which he saw suffered much by daily contentions and irreconcilable heats, but because he thought the interest of religion itself required it.
Page 412 - ... from the nature of the human mind, time is necessary for the full comprehension and perfection of great ideas ; and that the highest and most wonderful truths, though communicated to the world once for all by inspired teachers, could not be comprehended all at once by the recipients, but, as being received and transmitted by minds not inspired, and through media which were human, have required only the longer time and deeper thought for their full elucidation: this may be called the theory of...
Page 35 - His friendship and conversation lay much among the good fellows and humourists ; and his delights were accordingly, drinking, laughing, singing, kissing, and all the extravagances of the bottle. He had a set of banterers for the most part, near him ; as in old time great men kept fools to make them merry. And these fellows abusing one another and their betters, were a regale to him.
Page 16 - Divers of them have said that of such as were in my house when I was chancellor, I used to examine them with torments, causing them to be bound to a tree in my garden, and there piteously beaten.
Page 450 - Who was that Wisdom, and what was her name, "the Mother of fair love, and fear, and holy hope," " exalted like a palm-tree in Engaddi, and a rose-plant in Jericho," "created from the beginning before the world " in God's counsels, and " in Jerusalem was her power" ? The vision is found in the Apocalypse, a Woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.