Essays Contributed to the "Quarterly Review", Volumen2

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Página 83 - as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him;' the end, we fear, of many a wearied spirit, which for very hopeless weariness stays in the disappointing shelter it chose so blindly from its own perplexities.
Página 187 - that this realm of England is an empire and hath so been accepted in the world; governed by one supreme head and king, having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial crown of the same; unto whom a body politic compact of all sorts and degrees of people, divided in terms by names of spiritualty and temporally,
Página 166 - Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood,' was not a little increased by the succeeding visit to the West of Scotland, and led before long to the purchase of Balmoral as what it is so desirable that the Queen of Great Britain should possess—a really Highland home. Here is the record of its
Página 6 - LIFE AND DEATH OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, ADVOCATE OF HOLLAND. INCLUDING THE HISTORY OF THE PRIMARY CAUSES AND MOVEMENTS OF "THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR." BY JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, DCL, Author of the " Rise of the Dutch Republic,
Página 145 - Balmoral of October 13, 1856:—' Every year my heart becomes more fixed in this dear paradise, and so much more so now that all has become my dearest Albert's own creation, own work, own building, own laying out, as at Osborne, that his great taste and the impress of his dear hand have been stamped everywhere.
Página 251 - In outline dim and vast Their peaceful shadows cast The giant forms of empires, on their way To ruin ? one by one They tower and they are gone, Yet in the Prophet's soul the dreams of avarice stay.' —Second Sunday after Easter. The faults which may
Página 187 - by names of spiritualty and temporally, be bound, and ought to bear next to God a natural and humble obedience. . . . the body spiritual whereof having power when any cause of the law divine happened to come in question, or of spiritual, having declared, interpret, and shewed by that
Página 142 - functions, continually and anxiously watch every part of the public business, in order to be able to advise and assist her at any moment in any of the multifarious and difficult questions or duties brought before her, sometimes international, sometimes political, or social, or personal.
Página 142 - should aim at no power by himself or for himself, should shun all ostentation, assume no separate responsibility before the public ; but make his position entirely a part of hers, fill up every gap which, as a woman, she would naturally leave in the exercise of her
Página 254 - the body and blood of Christ, which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper.

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