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... Islam and Christianity in India ,. France , Nationality , 753 ander II . , 301 Garibaldi's Memoirs , 793 Marlitt ,. 352 FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW . The Faroe Isles , 682 Poor General Wolfe ! 761 Count Leo Tolstoi , 82 The Thames , Mademoiselle ...
... Islam and Christianity in India ,. France , Nationality , 753 ander II . , 301 Garibaldi's Memoirs , 793 Marlitt ,. 352 FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW . The Faroe Isles , 682 Poor General Wolfe ! 761 Count Leo Tolstoi , 82 The Thames , Mademoiselle ...
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... Islam and Christianity in India , 579 640 JIM'S Meg , 75 655 Johnson's , Dr. , Style , 288 694 Johnson , Dr. , on Ireland , 426 806 Jungie , A Night in the 496 Cotton , Fires in 822 Jacobean Courtier , A 566 DARWIN , Charles , Life and ...
... Islam and Christianity in India , 579 640 JIM'S Meg , 75 655 Johnson's , Dr. , Style , 288 694 Johnson , Dr. , on Ireland , 426 806 Jungie , A Night in the 496 Cotton , Fires in 822 Jacobean Courtier , A 566 DARWIN , Charles , Life and ...
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... Islam in Africa ; what , as appears to me , it has done , is doing , and can do - what also it cannot do - for the ... Islam , by a process of comparison in which Christianity is arraigned for failures in practice , of which ...
... Islam in Africa ; what , as appears to me , it has done , is doing , and can do - what also it cannot do - for the ... Islam , by a process of comparison in which Christianity is arraigned for failures in practice , of which ...
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... Islam in Africa , modi- and cover widely different portions of the fying , or strengthening , or unsaying any African field , but they are all inspired by statements which , in the light of longer a common purpose , and converge towards ...
... Islam in Africa , modi- and cover widely different portions of the fying , or strengthening , or unsaying any African field , but they are all inspired by statements which , in the light of longer a common purpose , and converge towards ...
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... Islam , while , of the remain- ing half , one - quarter is leavened and an- other threatened by it . Such is the amaz- ing , the portentous problem which Chris- tianity and civilization have to face in Af- rica , and to which neither of ...
... Islam , while , of the remain- ing half , one - quarter is leavened and an- other threatened by it . Such is the amaz- ing , the portentous problem which Chris- tianity and civilization have to face in Af- rica , and to which neither of ...
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Page 218 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that 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...
Page 413 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 361 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Page 430 - Rattle his bones over the stones! He's only a pauper whom nobody owns!
Page 371 - IMLAC now felt the enthusiastic fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when the prince cried out, "Enough! Thou hast convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet.
Page 371 - Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work ; but I was so anxious to avoid prejudice, that I determined not for some time to write even the briefest sketch of it. In June 1842 I first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages ; and this was enlarged during the summer of 1844 into one of 230 pages, which I had fairly copied out and still possess.
Page 412 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Page 371 - I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think that I had behaved in a paltry spirit.
Page 260 - There is a passage in Hogg's capitally written and most interesting account of Shelley which I wrote down when I first read it and have borne in mind ever since; so beautifully it seemed to render the true Shelley. Hogg has been speaking of the intellectual expression of Shelley's features, and he goes on: "Nor was the moral expression less beautiful than the intellectual; for there was a softness, a delicacy, a gentleness, and especially (though this will surprise many) that air of profound religious...
Page 59 - But the truth is we are not to take Anna Karenine as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life. A piece of life it is. The author has not invented and combined it, he has seen it; it has all happened before his inward eye, and it was in this wise that it happened.