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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... considered as the illustrious but irreligious delineator of the Roman Em- pire ; and we shall contemplate him under the two distinct heads of Mr. Gibbon the Historian , and Mr. Gibbon the Sceptic ; including , in the latter character ...
... considered as the illustrious but irreligious delineator of the Roman Em- pire ; and we shall contemplate him under the two distinct heads of Mr. Gibbon the Historian , and Mr. Gibbon the Sceptic ; including , in the latter character ...
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... considered and thoroughly meditated , and therefore it is bold and luminous ; with the manners and customs of different times , countries , places , and characters , he was sufficiently familiar , and in these particulars he shews no ...
... considered and thoroughly meditated , and therefore it is bold and luminous ; with the manners and customs of different times , countries , places , and characters , he was sufficiently familiar , and in these particulars he shews no ...
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... considered as the per- fection of Art , the talent of concealing it . In all his works , and especially in his History , the traces of the tool are every where visible . He appears to have taken Tacitus for his model , and like that ...
... considered as the per- fection of Art , the talent of concealing it . In all his works , and especially in his History , the traces of the tool are every where visible . He appears to have taken Tacitus for his model , and like that ...
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... considered as an historian . But the three historical works so often mentioned in this article , are pro- ductions so extremely honourable to the whole British Nation , that it is scarce possible for a remark respecting them to be at ...
... considered as an historian . But the three historical works so often mentioned in this article , are pro- ductions so extremely honourable to the whole British Nation , that it is scarce possible for a remark respecting them to be at ...
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... , poor , and destitute of all support but God's providential protection . When the great inequality between the supplicant and his enemies is considered , with respect to their different rank and fortunes Horsley on the Psalms . 23.
... , poor , and destitute of all support but God's providential protection . When the great inequality between the supplicant and his enemies is considered , with respect to their different rank and fortunes Horsley on the Psalms . 23.
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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...