The Home and Foreign Review, Volume 2Williams and Norgate, 1863 |
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Page 34
... Italian revo- lution would injure the Catholic Church . It was not unreasonable to expect that he would use political power in Ireland to promote the same object for which he rejoiced to see political power used in Italy . There- fore ...
... Italian revo- lution would injure the Catholic Church . It was not unreasonable to expect that he would use political power in Ireland to promote the same object for which he rejoiced to see political power used in Italy . There- fore ...
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... Italy has had her period of obscurity , as Sweden and Portugal have had their epochs of glory ; and only a few years have passed since Spain , once an empire on which the sun never set , was lying low and almost forgotten in the silence ...
... Italy has had her period of obscurity , as Sweden and Portugal have had their epochs of glory ; and only a few years have passed since Spain , once an empire on which the sun never set , was lying low and almost forgotten in the silence ...
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... Italy . There is good authority for saying that two - thirds of the soil of Spain was in the hands of the nobility and the clergy . These proprietors never sold land , and they were far too careless of lucre to stimulate the industry of ...
... Italy . There is good authority for saying that two - thirds of the soil of Spain was in the hands of the nobility and the clergy . These proprietors never sold land , and they were far too careless of lucre to stimulate the industry of ...
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... Italy , and Spain . Putting aside Navarre and the Basque provinces , which still use their privilege of refusing to give any statistical information , there are in Spain 1,786,025 fanegas , or 4,465,062 acres , of irrigated land ...
... Italy , and Spain . Putting aside Navarre and the Basque provinces , which still use their privilege of refusing to give any statistical information , there are in Spain 1,786,025 fanegas , or 4,465,062 acres , of irrigated land ...
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... Italian , or even a German , who openly avows himself a partisan of protective customs - duties . He conceals his weakness for protection under the cloak of a zeal for indirect taxation . It would therefore be superfluous in us to argue ...
... Italian , or even a German , who openly avows himself a partisan of protective customs - duties . He conceals his weakness for protection under the cloak of a zeal for indirect taxation . It would therefore be superfluous in us to argue ...
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Page 134 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 621 - For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be...
Page 621 - I speake, kepe silence, sit, stand, or go, eate, drinke, be merie, or sad, be sowyng, plaiyng, dauncing, or doing anie thing els, I must do it, as it were, in soch weight, mesure, and number, even so perfitelie, as God made the world, or else I am so sharplie taunted...
Page 502 - But if the fossil memorials have been correctly interpreted— if we have here before us at the northern base of the Pyrenees a sepulchral vault with skeletons of human beings, consigned by friends and relatives to their last restingplace — if we have also at the portal of the tomb the relics of funeral feasts, and within it indications of viands destined for the use of the departed on their way to a land of spirits; while among the funeral gifts are weapons wherewith in other fields to chase the...
Page 672 - tis Death itself there dies. EPITAPH. STOP, Christian Passer-by — Stop, child of God, And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he — O lift one thought in prayer for STC ; That he who many a year with toil of breath Found death in life, may here find life in death ! Mercy for praise — to be forgiven for fame He ask'd, and hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same ! AN ODE TO THE RAIN.
Page 353 - I dare boldly eay, that never any particular person, either before or since, did build any stone or brick house for his private habitation, but such as have lately obtained estates, according to the course of the law of England.
Page 135 - Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just; let the earth be opened and bud forth a Savior."* Then the Son of God quitted the eternal mansions of His Father, and " appeared,
Page 353 - Irish, for they used to lay bonaght upon their people, and never gave their soldier any other pay. But when the English had learned it, they used it with more insolence, and made it more intolerable...
Page 406 - Well, there are several things which I never will tolerate ; I will begin by ourselves. I will not tolerate the permanent occupation of Constantinople by the Russians ; having said this, I will say that it never shall be held by the English, or French, or any other great nation.
Page 592 - I conclude as follows : — if there is a form of Christianity now in the world which is accused of gross superstition, of borrowing its rites and customs from the heathen, and of ascribing to forms and ceremonies an occult virtue ; — a religion which is considered to burden and enslave the mind by its requisitions, to address itself to the weak-minded and ignorant, to be supported by sophistry and imposture, and to contradict reason and exalt mere irrational faith; — a religion which impresses...