| Fashion - 742 pages
...belong to all time, and stand aloft the land-marks of Literature. Fanny. And no wonder; for are we not " the heirs of all the ages in the foremost files of time." Mrs. Smith. Exactly so. But if I tell you what I think of THE OOLHKN LEGEND, shall I pique curiosity... | |
| English literature - 1848 - 886 pages
...but our roots are among the generations of the dead, and we draw nourishment from their graves. W <: are ' the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.' The thousandfold influences of the past environ us. Ihe words and thoughts, the reason and unreason, the... | |
| India - 1854 - 532 pages
...administrative experience. We were standing, at the annexation of the Punjab, in the position of men who are " the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time." It was then well known that every theory had been tested in practice, that every crotchet had been... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 pages
...for our benefit through a long succession of years that they have left a large inheritance to us who are " the heirs of all the ages in the foremost files of time." The property thus stored up for our comfort and advantage does not consist of money, or houses, or lands,... | |
| Great Britain - 1860 - 564 pages
...science and refinement, trained in the highest culture, rich in the noblest endowments, — " These, the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time," — worship much as the barbarians of old did, and much as the savages do now, and fall prostrate before... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 556 pages
...science and refinement, trained in the highest culture, rich in the noblest endowments, — " These, the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time," — worship much as the barbarians of old did, and much as the savages do now, and fall prostrate before... | |
| Camilla Crosland - 1862 - 334 pages
...sordidness — for he had always a generous sympathy with the aspirations, the magnanimities of them who are the heirs " of all the ages in the foremost files of time ;" and because he gave them sympathy, he acquired over them influence, and received reverence. His... | |
| EDWARDL.YOUMANS,M.D. - 1863 - 468 pages
...its own additions, and bequeathes the whole to its successor ; so that We of the present stand as ' The heirs of all the ages in the foremost files of time.' 3. Knowledge is thus a growth. It begins in the common information of the uncultivated ; it develops,... | |
| Frances Power Cobbe - Middle East - 1864 - 232 pages
...glory, should find it living here now when Baalbec is dead, and we, the children of the barbarians, are " the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of Time." A beautiful emblem, truly, was the mistletoe growing on our royal English oaks : the oak was Hesus,... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1864 - 608 pages
...well-educated humanity to cast aside all its traditions and disavow the training of its youth. They are " the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time ;" and the world would hardly give them a hearing, if they did not so represent themselves. They must... | |
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