Pictures of Old EnglandMacmillan and Company, 1861 - 457 sider |
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... Nature seems to have destined to be the metropolis of the empire , the chief port of the country , and the commercial emporium of the whole world , has not always been without a rival in regard to every province of material power . The ...
... Nature seems to have destined to be the metropolis of the empire , the chief port of the country , and the commercial emporium of the whole world , has not always been without a rival in regard to every province of material power . The ...
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... , describing the shape and nature of the relics which they saw and worshipped , and the con- versation which they held together in reference to them , and which appears to have led them to the conviction OF ST . THOMAS BECKET . 27.
... , describing the shape and nature of the relics which they saw and worshipped , and the con- versation which they held together in reference to them , and which appears to have led them to the conviction OF ST . THOMAS BECKET . 27.
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... natural requirement of the human mind for meditative contemplation ; and while this special element became , at an early period , alike intimately blended with the inner being of the two great forms of Christianity , it differed ...
... natural requirement of the human mind for meditative contemplation ; and while this special element became , at an early period , alike intimately blended with the inner being of the two great forms of Christianity , it differed ...
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... natural order of things , for learning drives men to investigate still further for themselves , and to try to satisfy wants which were quite incompatible with his command of absolute poverty , and with the object for which it had been ...
... natural order of things , for learning drives men to investigate still further for themselves , and to try to satisfy wants which were quite incompatible with his command of absolute poverty , and with the object for which it had been ...
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... natural history . It was not long before the practical tendency , which was peculiar to them , led them to the study of physics and chemistry ; not , however , as heretofore , by the path of theoretical speculation , but by the co ...
... natural history . It was not long before the practical tendency , which was peculiar to them , led them to the study of physics and chemistry ; not , however , as heretofore , by the path of theoretical speculation , but by the co ...
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Side 5 - European History, Narrated in a Series of Historical Selections from the best Authorities. Edited and arranged by EM SEWELL and CM YONGE. First Series, crown 8vo. 6s. ; Second Series, 1088-1228, crown 8vo. 6s. Third Edition. " We know of scarcely anything," says the GUARDIAN, of this volume, "which is so likely to raise to a higher level the average standard of English education.
Side 8 - Stands alone as the one general history of the country, for the sake of which all others, if young and old are wise, will be speedily and surely set aside.
Side 6 - The book indeed is full of instruction and interest to students of all ages, and he must be a well-informed man indeed who will not rise from its perusal with clearer and more accurate ideas of a too much neglected portion of English history.
Side 19 - Wilson. — A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. "An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit.
Side 24 - Stephen (CE)— THE SERVICE OF THE POOR; Being an Inquiry into the Reasons for and against the Establishment of Religious Sisterhoods for Charitable Purposes. By CAROLINE EMILIA STEPHEN. Crown 8vo. 6s. 6d. "The ablest advocate of a better line of work in this direction that we have ever seen.
Side 18 - The result is a vivid picture of tropical life, which may be read with unflagging interest, and a sufficient account of his scientific conclusions to stimulate our appetite without wearying us by detail. In short, we may safely say that we have never read a more agreeable book of its kind.
Side 292 - Areopagitica: a speech to the Parliament of England, for the liberty of unlicensed printing; with prefatory remarks, copious notes, and excursive illustrations, by T.