The Log Cabin; Or: The World Before YouG.S. Appleton, 1844 - 207 pages |
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Page 115 - ON THE NATURE OF THE SCHOLAR, AND ITS MANIFESTATIONS. By Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Translated from the German by William Smith. Second Edition. Post 8vo, pp. vii. and 131, cloth.
Page 118 - Richter has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible, crushing in pieces the hardest problems ; piercing into the most hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over the abysses of being, wandering through infinitude, and summoning before us, in its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror ; a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled, for it pours its treasures with a...
Page 5 - It is not often our good fortune to meet with a book so well conceived, so well written, and so instructive as this. The various phases of the national mind, described with the clearness and force of Mr.
Page 121 - MARTYRIA ; a Legend, wherein are contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth. Written by WILLIAM MOUNTFORD, Clerk.
Page 118 - Man,' form the most prominent, and by far the most valuable, portion of the work ; they will be found full of interest and the choicest riches, which will abundantly repay any amount of labour bestowed upon them." — Inquirer. " This is a book which demands and deserves study. Either to translate or to appreciate it requires a somewhat peculiar turn of mind. Not that any body could read it without profit, but to gain from it all that it is capable ol yielding, there must be some aptitude for such...
Page 120 - You have often asked me/ says the authoress, Miss Crompton, in the pleasing introductory address to her dear nephews and nieces, ' to tell you stories on Sunday afternoons, about real people. Sometimes I have wanted to read my own books at those pleasant quiet times ; and have wished that you could be reading to yourselves, instead of listening to me. But you have often said, that the books which tell of the real people who lived long, long ago, and were called Jews, and who once had the...
Page 115 - The Life of Jean Paul Fr. Richter. Compiled from various sources. Together with his Autobiography. Translated from the German. 2 vols.
Page 115 - The Rationale of Religious Inquiry $ or, The Question stated, of Reason, the Bible, and the Church.
Page 118 - He has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible ; crushing in pieces the hardest problems ; piercing into the most hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant: an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being; wandering through Infinitude, and summoning before us, in its dim religious light, shapes. of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror : a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled; for it pours its treasures with a lavishness which knows no...
Page 118 - This book will be found very valuable as an introduction to the study of one of the most eccentric and difficult writers of Germany. Jean Paul's writings are so much the reflex of Jean Paul himself, that every light that shines upon the one inevitably illumines the other. The work is a useful exhibition of a great and amiable man, who, possessed of the kindliest feelings and the most brilliant fantasy, turned to a high purpose that humour of which Rabelais is the great grandfather, and Sterne one...