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... period or limit of time , marked for the convenience of chronology and history by some remarkable events . Chronologers usually reckon seven such ages , namely , 1. From the creation to the deluge . 2. From the deluge to the birth of ...
... period or limit of time , marked for the convenience of chronology and history by some remarkable events . Chronologers usually reckon seven such ages , namely , 1. From the creation to the deluge . 2. From the deluge to the birth of ...
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... period , were denominated Apolo- gies by their writers ; as those of Justin Martyr , Tertullian , and others , both pre- served and lost . The title has been re- tained by some writers in modern times : as by Robert Barclay , in his ...
... period , were denominated Apolo- gies by their writers ; as those of Justin Martyr , Tertullian , and others , both pre- served and lost . The title has been re- tained by some writers in modern times : as by Robert Barclay , in his ...
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... period in the literary his- tory of Rome . The civil wars that had long distracted the Roman empire had stifled the cultivation of literature and the arts ; and when the battle of Actium had terminated internal commotion , noth- ing ...
... period in the literary his- tory of Rome . The civil wars that had long distracted the Roman empire had stifled the cultivation of literature and the arts ; and when the battle of Actium had terminated internal commotion , noth- ing ...
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... period . BUR'SCHE , a youth , especially a stu- dent at a university . BUR'SCHEN COMMENT , the code of laws adopted by the students for the regulation of their demeanor amongst themselves , & c . BUR'SCHENSCHAFT , a league or secret ...
... period . BUR'SCHE , a youth , especially a stu- dent at a university . BUR'SCHEN COMMENT , the code of laws adopted by the students for the regulation of their demeanor amongst themselves , & c . BUR'SCHENSCHAFT , a league or secret ...
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... periods . The cadence takes place when the parts fall or terminate on a note or chord naturally expected by the ear , just as a period closes the sense in the paragraph of a discourse . A cadence is either perfect or imperfect . The ...
... periods . The cadence takes place when the parts fall or terminate on a note or chord naturally expected by the ear , just as a period closes the sense in the paragraph of a discourse . A cadence is either perfect or imperfect . The ...
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Page 112 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 482 - It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the spring-time of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings, spreads our sympathies over all classes of society, knits us by new ties with universal being, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions helps faith to lay hold...
Page 191 - Tartarus ; and their chief design was, by sensible means, to spread among the people a conviction of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments.
Page 482 - It is not true that the poet paints a life which does not exist. He only extracts and concentrates, as it were, life's ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys ; and in this he does well ; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence, and physical gratifications, but admits, in measures which may be indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights worthy...
Page 482 - ... of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good. Poetry has a natural alliance with our best affections.
Page 265 - GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it inquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet.
Page 145 - And for the majesty that he gave him all people, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him; whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive, and whom he would he set up, and whom he would he put down.
Page 307 - I must here in the entrance beg pardon of my reader for the frequent use of the word "idea," which he will find in the following treatise. It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks: I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it.
Page 241 - ... beneficent suzerain, against such powerful aggression, as left little prospect except of sharing in his ruin. ' From these feelings, engendered by the feudal relation, has sprung up the peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards a sovereign, which we denominate loyalty; alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of eastern slaves, and from the abstract respect with which free citizens regard their chief magistrate.
Page 140 - DEMOCRACY, a form of government, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people exercise the powers of legislation.