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Side 30
... question in assisting us to form a just idea of the condition and circumstances of England , and of Mercia , in the seventh century . The Celts had long been at any rate nominally Christians , but this fact was in no way calculated to ...
... question in assisting us to form a just idea of the condition and circumstances of England , and of Mercia , in the seventh century . The Celts had long been at any rate nominally Christians , but this fact was in no way calculated to ...
Side 39
... question . What , after all , was the Paganism which was displaced in Mercia , and what manner of Christianity was that which displaced it ? The mere names will serve us here in very little stead , for both the one and the other have ...
... question . What , after all , was the Paganism which was displaced in Mercia , and what manner of Christianity was that which displaced it ? The mere names will serve us here in very little stead , for both the one and the other have ...
Side 80
... question . The subject , however , of Milton's political life is one little dealt with in the ordinary biographies . It is in the very nature of the case also that there should be passages scattered up and down Mr. Masson's book that ...
... question . The subject , however , of Milton's political life is one little dealt with in the ordinary biographies . It is in the very nature of the case also that there should be passages scattered up and down Mr. Masson's book that ...
Side 81
... question of the influence of the thinkers of an age upon its actors . Let us then at once take up this point of Milton's influence as a politician upon his gener- ation , and especially upon Oliver Cromwell , the chiefest of its actors ...
... question of the influence of the thinkers of an age upon its actors . Let us then at once take up this point of Milton's influence as a politician upon his gener- ation , and especially upon Oliver Cromwell , the chiefest of its actors ...
Side 86
... question in possession of the muscle . Now Milton was a " deep republican . " What is peculiar then in his position is that he , unlike all other " deep republicans , " remained loyal to Cromwell . How he had admired " our chief of men ...
... question in possession of the muscle . Now Milton was a " deep republican . " What is peculiar then in his position is that he , unlike all other " deep republicans , " remained loyal to Cromwell . How he had admired " our chief of men ...
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Populære avsnitt
Side 67 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Side 24 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Side 26 - Art, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries...
Side 72 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Side 74 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way.
Side 90 - Then to advise how war may best upheld Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage ; besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done. The bounds of either sword to thee we owe; Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son.
Side 86 - Threatning to bind our soules with secular chaines : Helpe us to save free Conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose Gospell is their maw.
Side 64 - I saw several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched ! 8th.