Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 63John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1864 |
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... writer intended to teach a very im- portant lesson ; the superiority of an un- selfish and loving heart to all gifts of intellect or fortune . But we question whether in the desire to point the contrast between goodness clothed in the ...
... writer intended to teach a very im- portant lesson ; the superiority of an un- selfish and loving heart to all gifts of intellect or fortune . But we question whether in the desire to point the contrast between goodness clothed in the ...
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... writers delight men gifted with superhuman virtue and wisdom , who be- long to a sphere far removed from that of ordinary mortals , and whose goodness is altogether of so unapproachable a charac- ter , that it fails altogether to enlist ...
... writers delight men gifted with superhuman virtue and wisdom , who be- long to a sphere far removed from that of ordinary mortals , and whose goodness is altogether of so unapproachable a charac- ter , that it fails altogether to enlist ...
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... writer takes little or no account of large classes , who , however mistaken he may deem them in their views , are striving to live up to their sense of right ; that , in fact , the circle from which his actors and incidents are exerted ...
... writer takes little or no account of large classes , who , however mistaken he may deem them in their views , are striving to live up to their sense of right ; that , in fact , the circle from which his actors and incidents are exerted ...
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... writer who could ex- pose its weaknesses and lash its vices , without ever penning a word that could offend the taste of the most fastidious , or call up a blush on the face of the most modest . He has often to speak of sin , but there ...
... writer who could ex- pose its weaknesses and lash its vices , without ever penning a word that could offend the taste of the most fastidious , or call up a blush on the face of the most modest . He has often to speak of sin , but there ...
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... writers possessed a more intimate ac- quaintance with those whom they thus satirize , they would have known that the pretenders are the exception , not the rule , and must have seen that the men who are most intent on the diffusion of ...
... writers possessed a more intimate ac- quaintance with those whom they thus satirize , they would have known that the pretenders are the exception , not the rule , and must have seen that the men who are most intent on the diffusion of ...
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Página 130 - Artesian wells had been opened, around which, as vegetation thrives luxuriantly, thirty thousand palm-trees and one thousand fruit-trees were planted, and two thriving villages established. At the depth of a little over five hundred feet, an underground river or lake was struck, and from two of them live fish have been thrown up, showing that there was a large body of water underneath. The French government, by this means, hopes to make the route across the desert, to Timbuctoo, fertile, and fit...