Southern Review, Volume 4A.E. Miller, 1829 |
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Pagina 4
... the Romans , as some persons have absurdly imagined , how or by what miracle could they have hit on the identical letters which Cadmus brought from Phoenicia , and have rejected all the rest ? 4 [ August , Higgins ' Celtic Druids .
... the Romans , as some persons have absurdly imagined , how or by what miracle could they have hit on the identical letters which Cadmus brought from Phoenicia , and have rejected all the rest ? 4 [ August , Higgins ' Celtic Druids .
Pagina 16
... persons totally regardless of historic ve- racity , and who amused themselves and the ignorant people whom they addressed , by these absurd personifications . There never was a nation so utterly regardless of truth as the Greeks , and ...
... persons totally regardless of historic ve- racity , and who amused themselves and the ignorant people whom they addressed , by these absurd personifications . There never was a nation so utterly regardless of truth as the Greeks , and ...
Pagina 17
... person who made the assertion ; but it is so rude and inartificial , that no great extent of intellect was required for its invention - at least such is our opinion . Derivation of Britain and Bretagne , and Albion . ( p . 94. ) Noth ...
... person who made the assertion ; but it is so rude and inartificial , that no great extent of intellect was required for its invention - at least such is our opinion . Derivation of Britain and Bretagne , and Albion . ( p . 94. ) Noth ...
Pagina 18
... person should maintain that , not the author's Celta , but his own Scythians or Goths were those who first came , it would scarcely be considered worth a reply . Call them Goths then ; it matters not . They were the persons , Goths or ...
... person should maintain that , not the author's Celta , but his own Scythians or Goths were those who first came , it would scarcely be considered worth a reply . Call them Goths then ; it matters not . They were the persons , Goths or ...
Pagina 22
... persons who wrote no books , and who probably could not write at all ? How were workmen , particularly the architects or master ma- sons to instruct or be instructed , but by oral intercourse at regular meetings , held under fixed ...
... persons who wrote no books , and who probably could not write at all ? How were workmen , particularly the architects or master ma- sons to instruct or be instructed , but by oral intercourse at regular meetings , held under fixed ...
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Pagina 158 - ... her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all ,with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Pagina 323 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased, but all The multitude of angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy...
Pagina 465 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust ! ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Pagina 169 - ... the minority will extend to far greater numbers, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. In such a popular persecution, individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable condition than in any other. Under a cruel prince they have the balmy compassion of mankind to assuage the smart of their wounds; they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings: but those who are...
Pagina 458 - Art thou called being a servant ? care not for it : but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
Pagina 357 - It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness; for besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons.
Pagina 459 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Pagina 176 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain, we are ' never wholly obsolete. By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.
Pagina 334 - Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to but with the prophet
Pagina 60 - ... lawyers upon the different imperfections and improvements of the laws of different countries, should have given occasion to an inquiry into what were the natural rules of justice, independent of all positive institution. It might have been expected, that these reasonings should have led them to aim at establishing a system of what might properly be called Natural Jurisprudence, or a theory of the principles which ought to run through^ and to be the foundation of the laws of all nations.