The Contemporary Review, Volum 46A. Strahan, 1884 |
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... towns full of unspoiled people , and a hoard of interest in manners and costume untouched as yet by the tourist . A ... town , which it repre- sents , is often an excursion in itself . The food procurable is not bad , and beds generally ...
... towns full of unspoiled people , and a hoard of interest in manners and costume untouched as yet by the tourist . A ... town , which it repre- sents , is often an excursion in itself . The food procurable is not bad , and beds generally ...
Side 90
... towns in the mountains . There are plenty of them - the great plateau imme- diately over Cosenza is perhaps the largest area without a village in the whole district . When he has reached the heart of these Alps , he should make his ...
... towns in the mountains . There are plenty of them - the great plateau imme- diately over Cosenza is perhaps the largest area without a village in the whole district . When he has reached the heart of these Alps , he should make his ...
Side 91
... town itself , once the famous Croton , has unfortunately had all its antique materials used up in comparatively modern fortifications . It was , I believe , Charles V. who surrounded it with the massive walls and ramparts it now ...
... town itself , once the famous Croton , has unfortunately had all its antique materials used up in comparatively modern fortifications . It was , I believe , Charles V. who surrounded it with the massive walls and ramparts it now ...
Side 92
... town whose name it bears are at all proximate . At Potenza , for example , in the Basilicate , the town is indeed right over the station , but perhaps 800 feet over it , so that to go up by carriage is a long and tedious journey . I saw ...
... town whose name it bears are at all proximate . At Potenza , for example , in the Basilicate , the town is indeed right over the station , but perhaps 800 feet over it , so that to go up by carriage is a long and tedious journey . I saw ...
Side 93
... town , also with decent inns , but too large and fashionable for picturesqueness of costume . The people who go to chapel on Sun- days are aping the vulgar dress of Europe , while in the villages but a few miles away , such as Tiriolo ...
... town , also with decent inns , but too large and fashionable for picturesqueness of costume . The people who go to chapel on Sun- days are aping the vulgar dress of Europe , while in the villages but a few miles away , such as Tiriolo ...
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Side 230 - And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue : whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
Side 428 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Side 227 - Let your women keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak : but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Side 25 - Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Side 678 - The particular Forms of Divine Worship, and the Rites and Ceremonies appointed to be used therein, being things in their own nature indifferent, and alterable, and so acknowledged; it is but reasonable that upon weighty and important considerations, according to the various...
Side 389 - I am formed, if for anything not in common with the herd of mankind, to apprehend minute and remote distinctions of feeling, whether relative to external nature or the living beings which surround us, and to communicate the conceptions which result from considering either the moral or the material universe as a whole.
Side 411 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Side 32 - An author has no natural right to a property in his production. But then neither has he a natural right to anything whatever which he may produce or acquire...
Side 387 - He now became troubled with the passion for reforming the world.* He built many castles in the air, and peopled them with secret tribunals, and bands of illuminati, who were always the imaginary instruments of his projected regeneration of the human species.
Side 12 - ... to the very uttermost, what is called the concert of Europe; to keep the Powers of Europe in union together. And why ? Because by keeping all in union together you neutralize and fetter and bind up the selfish aims of each. I am not here to flatter either England or any of them. They have selfish aims, as, unfortunately, we in late years have too sadly shown that we too have had selfish aims; but their common action is fatal to selfish aims.