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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... convents had once amounted to three hundred and sixty - six . How many books he found is not men- tioned ; but we find that he sent to England , to Dr. Marshall , who was then preparing an edition of the New Testament in Coptic , a copy ...
... convents had once amounted to three hundred and sixty - six . How many books he found is not men- tioned ; but we find that he sent to England , to Dr. Marshall , who was then preparing an edition of the New Testament in Coptic , a copy ...
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... convent of St. Macarius . Here he obtained some excellent Coptic manuscripts , of which he has given a catalogue in ... convents of Nitria had also been visited ( December , 1712 ) by the Jesuit Claude Sicard . The once flourishing ...
... convent of St. Macarius . Here he obtained some excellent Coptic manuscripts , of which he has given a catalogue in ... convents of Nitria had also been visited ( December , 1712 ) by the Jesuit Claude Sicard . The once flourishing ...
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... convent he proceeded to that of the Syrians , which he describes as being in the best condition of them all , having a very agreeable garden , watered by a well , in which were many trees of various kinds . The number of monks was not ...
... convent he proceeded to that of the Syrians , which he describes as being in the best condition of them all , having a very agreeable garden , watered by a well , in which were many trees of various kinds . The number of monks was not ...
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... convents of Macarius and St. Mary of the Syrians were deaf to all his entreaties to be allowed to see their libraries . He says that the buildings at that time were falling into decay , and the dust destroying the books and manu ...
... convents of Macarius and St. Mary of the Syrians were deaf to all his entreaties to be allowed to see their libraries . He says that the buildings at that time were falling into decay , and the dust destroying the books and manu ...
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... convent of El - Baramous , eighteen in that of the Syrians , twelve in the Amba - Bishoi , and twenty in the St. Macarius . Their only books , ' he says , are ascetic works in manuscripts , on parchment or cotton - paper , some in ...
... convent of El - Baramous , eighteen in that of the Syrians , twelve in the Amba - Bishoi , and twenty in the St. Macarius . Their only books , ' he says , are ascetic works in manuscripts , on parchment or cotton - paper , some in ...
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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.