Leisure hours with London divines, by a journalist

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Página 73 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Página 13 - Come, O thou Traveller unknown Whom still I hold, but cannot see, My company before is gone, And I am left alone with thee, With thee all night I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day.
Página 112 - But, when philosophy has once demonstrated the principles of Mechanics, and introduced the practice of the useful Arts, " the wilderness and the solitary place are made glad, and the desert rejoices and blossoms as the rose.
Página 36 - ... the value of a fuller and more systematic pursuit of studies, which, instead of being dry and repulsive, shall be capable of affording delight as well as improvement. Independent of the great variety which these volumes offer, there is perhaps no similar series of works which is so well calculated for all classes. The rich and the poor, the learned and the unlearned, will find here an unceasing source of instruction and amusement. " It is not wonderful that the circulation should be extensive;...
Página 26 - Of late years he has given much of his time and attention to the study of the Romish Church and its movements in England and on the continent.
Página 51 - At the same time, it is not improbable that there was a larger admixture of worldly prompting in the request than they themselves imagined.

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