Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... vast talent which was engulfed in the contention ; the acces- sion of a more virtuous age buries in the dust the fancy which was enlisted in the cause of corruption ; while these illustri- ous men , whose writings have struck root in ...
... vast talent which was engulfed in the contention ; the acces- sion of a more virtuous age buries in the dust the fancy which was enlisted in the cause of corruption ; while these illustri- ous men , whose writings have struck root in ...
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... vast charnel - houses ; marriage was contracted before a civil magistrate ; and infancy , untaught to pronounce the name of God , longed only for the period when the passions and indulgences of life were to com- mence . It was in these ...
... vast charnel - houses ; marriage was contracted before a civil magistrate ; and infancy , untaught to pronounce the name of God , longed only for the period when the passions and indulgences of life were to com- mence . It was in these ...
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... vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps , And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity , where forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snow , - " Even these , the most glorious objects which the eye of ...
... vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps , And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity , where forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snow , - " Even these , the most glorious objects which the eye of ...
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... vast temple , at which the Athenians toiled for seven centuries , which all the kings of Asia laboured to finish , which Adrian , the ruler of the world , had first the glory to com- plete , has sunk under the hand of time , and the ...
... vast temple , at which the Athenians toiled for seven centuries , which all the kings of Asia laboured to finish , which Adrian , the ruler of the world , had first the glory to com- plete , has sunk under the hand of time , and the ...
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... vast importance that works should exist in which the truths of religion are unfolded with lucid precision , and its principles defined with the force of reason ; but it is at least of equal moment that others should be found in which ...
... vast importance that works should exist in which the truths of religion are unfolded with lucid precision , and its principles defined with the force of reason ; but it is at least of equal moment that others should be found in which ...
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