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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: one. Our Gospels have invested him with the highest conceivable form of human greatness; the mythic ones have not ascribed to him an action which is elevated. In our Gospels he exhibits a superhuman wisdom; in the mythic books a nearly equal superhuman absurdity. In our Gospels he is arrayed in all the beauty of holiness; in the mythic ones, this aspect is entirely wanting. In our Gospels, not one strain of selfishness defiles his character; in the mythic ones, the boy Jesus is both pettish and malicious. Our Gospels exhibit to us a sublime morality; not a ray of it shines in those of the mythologists. The miracles of the one and of the other are contrasted in every point. A similar opposition of character runs through the whole current of their thought, feeling, morality, and religion.' (Row, p. 381.) In a word, if these are the legendary records preserved by the simple faith and unassisted powers of early Christian disciples, to what power are we to ascribe the authorship of the New Testament? Art. IV.? Chronicles and Characters. By Robert Lytton (OwEN Meredith). In 2 vols. London: 1868. , ]r. Lytton has not only inherited one of the most illus- trious names in contemporary English literature?for the author of ' Eugene Aram' and the ' Caxtons' has no superior amongst living novelists?but he has also made good his claim, in these volumes, to no inconsiderable share of the talents which have rendered that name illustrious. He has not indeed trodden in his father's footsteps, and he has not attempted to rival the dramatic power, the fine insight into character, or the witty wisdom of the Bulwer novels. But as a poet he has taken a higher flight. We have never been able to reckon Lord Lytton's poems amongst the highest efforts of his genius; and if the wand of fiction be...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217281188 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217281184 |
| Weight | 1.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 In |
| List Price | $33.21 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 450 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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