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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... was succeeded by , Thomas Wriothesley , a man of no splendid origin ( son of one of the Kings - at - Arms ) , who received from Henry 6 VIII . the possessions of the Abbey of Titchfield VIII . Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors . 23.
... was succeeded by , Thomas Wriothesley , a man of no splendid origin ( son of one of the Kings - at - Arms ) , who received from Henry 6 VIII . the possessions of the Abbey of Titchfield VIII . Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors . 23.
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... possessions of the Abbey of Titchfield , and the title of Lord Wriothesley of Titchfield , and was one of those executors of Henry who commenced their administration by a fraudulent manœuvre to advance each of themselves in the peerage ...
... possessions of the Abbey of Titchfield , and the title of Lord Wriothesley of Titchfield , and was one of those executors of Henry who commenced their administration by a fraudulent manœuvre to advance each of themselves in the peerage ...
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... possessed more quickness of perception and a more vigorous grasp of intellect . Many ecclesiastical holders of the Great Seal were to be admired as statesmen and scholars , but none had been competent , without assistance ...
... possessed more quickness of perception and a more vigorous grasp of intellect . Many ecclesiastical holders of the Great Seal were to be admired as statesmen and scholars , but none had been competent , without assistance ...
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... possessions of the family , and to whom every one will rejoice to see its honours restored .'- pp . 259-261 . Lord Campbell may well say that the English peerage has been largely stocked from the law . In Mr. Foss's late edition of ...
... possessions of the family , and to whom every one will rejoice to see its honours restored .'- pp . 259-261 . Lord Campbell may well say that the English peerage has been largely stocked from the law . In Mr. Foss's late edition of ...
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... possessions and high dignities to their posterity .'- vol . ii . p . 619 . The third of these volumes is in many respects the most inter- esting and important of the series . It deals with the half century of revolution between Lane and ...
... possessions and high dignities to their posterity .'- vol . ii . p . 619 . The third of these volumes is in many respects the most inter- esting and important of the series . It deals with the half century of revolution between Lane and ...
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Page 388 - 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 413 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Page 250 - 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...
Page 414 - JVlohler : viz., that the increase and expansion of the Christian Creed and Ritual, and the variations which have attended the process in the case of individual writers and churches, are the necessary attendants on any philosophy or polity which takes possession of the intellect and heart, and has had any wide or extended dominion ; that, from the nature of the human mind, time is necessary for the full comprehension and perfection of great ideas...
Page 329 - 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 233 - 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 450 - 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.
Page 37 - 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 563 - THE possible destiny of the United States of America, — as a nation of a hundred millions of freemen, — stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception.
Page 455 - Christianity such, that it extends throughout the world, though with varying measures of prominence or prosperity in separate places: — that it lies under the power of sovereigns and magistrates, in different ways alien to its faith ; — that flourishing nations and great empires, professing or tolerating the Christian name, lie over against it as antagonists ; — that schools of philosophy and learning are supporting theories, and following out conclusions, hostile to it, and establishing an...