The Eclectic Review, Volume 5; Volume 23Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood 1816 |
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... circumstances will not permit us regularly to criticise the work , we shall , we hope , make our readers full amends , while , instead of it , we essay to scrutinize the Author . Nor shall we , in proceeding thus , be losing sight of ...
... circumstances will not permit us regularly to criticise the work , we shall , we hope , make our readers full amends , while , instead of it , we essay to scrutinize the Author . Nor shall we , in proceeding thus , be losing sight of ...
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... circumstances , our his- torian has done all that could be done : he could not create facts , ( as it has often been justly observed , that no literary loss is more hopeless than that of historical records , ) but he has with immense ...
... circumstances , our his- torian has done all that could be done : he could not create facts , ( as it has often been justly observed , that no literary loss is more hopeless than that of historical records , ) but he has with immense ...
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... circumstances of their authors ; sinee it is only by proceeding in the track which they were the first among their countrymen to discover and lay open , that their successors can hope either to equal or surpass them . Two particulars ...
... circumstances of their authors ; sinee it is only by proceeding in the track which they were the first among their countrymen to discover and lay open , that their successors can hope either to equal or surpass them . Two particulars ...
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... circumstances of similitude which , to any one versed in the " prophetic style , prove beyond a doubt that the Mystical Conqueror " is the same personage in both . 66 6 " It is not a bad general notion of the book of Psalms , which is ...
... circumstances of similitude which , to any one versed in the " prophetic style , prove beyond a doubt that the Mystical Conqueror " is the same personage in both . 66 6 " It is not a bad general notion of the book of Psalms , which is ...
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... circumstances , which in the aggregate will not apply to any character in the Jewish history , there is good reason to con- clude that the suppliant is a mystical personage ; sometimes the Mes- siah , sometimes the Church , sometimes an ...
... circumstances , which in the aggregate will not apply to any character in the Jewish history , there is good reason to con- clude that the suppliant is a mystical personage ; sometimes the Mes- siah , sometimes the Church , sometimes an ...
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Page 432 - My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 562 - Jesu, Maria, shield her well! She folded her arms beneath her cloak, And stole to the other side of the oak.
Page 349 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle ?
Page 564 - A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance!
Page 561 - Is the night chilly and dark ? The night is chilly, but not dark. The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night ,is chill, the cloud is gray : "Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way.
Page 565 - So deeply had she drunken in That look, those shrunken serpent eyes, That all her features were resigned To this sole image in her mind: And passively did imitate That look of dull and treacherous hate!
Page 386 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 267 - Out upon Time! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
Page 426 - they are made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven...
Page 561 - The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is gray: 'Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. The lovely lady, Christabel...