Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... traveller , and a poet , to forward the great work of Chris- tian renovation . Of his object in doing this , he has him- self given the following account : - " There can be no doubt that the Genius of Christianity would have been a work ...
... traveller , and a poet , to forward the great work of Chris- tian renovation . Of his object in doing this , he has him- self given the following account : - " There can be no doubt that the Genius of Christianity would have been a work ...
Sivu 11
... travellers in the desert ; or the monks relieving the sick in the hospitals , attending those dying of the plague in the lazarettos , or accompanying the criminal to the scaffold , -what irony will not be disarmed ? what malicious smile ...
... travellers in the desert ; or the monks relieving the sick in the hospitals , attending those dying of the plague in the lazarettos , or accompanying the criminal to the scaffold , -what irony will not be disarmed ? what malicious smile ...
Sivu 14
... mutilated statue pointing to the west , with its pedestal covered with hiero- glyphics , and worn by the winds , what a subject of meditation is presented to the traveller ! Everything is concealed , everything is 14 CHATEAUBRIAND .
... mutilated statue pointing to the west , with its pedestal covered with hiero- glyphics , and worn by the winds , what a subject of meditation is presented to the traveller ! Everything is concealed , everything is 14 CHATEAUBRIAND .
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Archibald Alison. to the traveller ! Everything is concealed , everything is hidden in the universe . Man himself is the greatest mystery of the whole . Whence comes the spark which we call existence , and in what obscurity is it to be ...
Archibald Alison. to the traveller ! Everything is concealed , everything is hidden in the universe . Man himself is the greatest mystery of the whole . Whence comes the spark which we call existence , and in what obscurity is it to be ...
Sivu 16
... Travellers have often observed that in a certain rank in all countries manners are the same ; naturalists know that at a certain elevation above the sea in all latitudes we meet with the same vegetable productions ; and philosophers ...
... Travellers have often observed that in a certain rank in all countries manners are the same ; naturalists know that at a certain elevation above the sea in all latitudes we meet with the same vegetable productions ; and philosophers ...
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