The Home and Foreign Review, Volume 2Williams and Norgate, 1863 |
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... thing , however , is clear : successful cotton growing is not a thing of easy or certain attainment . The experience of the Southern States is evidence of what can be done under an extraordinary combination of favourable cir- cumstances ...
... thing , however , is clear : successful cotton growing is not a thing of easy or certain attainment . The experience of the Southern States is evidence of what can be done under an extraordinary combination of favourable cir- cumstances ...
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... thing unknown . In reality , however , it does not appear that on this point the Board of Directors were at all to blame . Be- fore 1840 , isolated attempts had constantly been made , under their sanction and at their expense , to ...
... thing unknown . In reality , however , it does not appear that on this point the Board of Directors were at all to blame . Be- fore 1840 , isolated attempts had constantly been made , under their sanction and at their expense , to ...
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... things will always furnish a certain number of candidates for scholarships and prizes , and prospects of future ... thing that can give pain to individuals . And it is the less necessary to refer to examples at home , because the ...
... things will always furnish a certain number of candidates for scholarships and prizes , and prospects of future ... thing that can give pain to individuals . And it is the less necessary to refer to examples at home , because the ...
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... thing is done , which suffers in times of distress , and is happy and contented in times of prosperity , and on which good and evil leave the impressions of their passage . Hence some persons have drawn the con- clusion that the ...
... thing is done , which suffers in times of distress , and is happy and contented in times of prosperity , and on which good and evil leave the impressions of their passage . Hence some persons have drawn the con- clusion that the ...
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... thing was carried on the backs of mules or other beasts of burden ; but the quantities which could be thus carried were very small , and the operation was both costly and tedious . But at the present time this state of things has been ...
... thing was carried on the backs of mules or other beasts of burden ; but the quantities which could be thus carried were very small , and the operation was both costly and tedious . But at the present time this state of things has been ...
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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...