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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... existence of a very high degree of literary industry in Mr. Gibbon , there is no doubt ; and perhaps , as his subject required , we may admit that he really exerted even a greater portion of that chief virtue of an historian , than ...
... existence of a very high degree of literary industry in Mr. Gibbon , there is no doubt ; and perhaps , as his subject required , we may admit that he really exerted even a greater portion of that chief virtue of an historian , than ...
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... existence - a future state . When the chains which tie us to the world begin to break , it is time to reconsider the principles of the religion we have professed ; the heart demands consolation , and nominal Christianity has it not to ...
... existence - a future state . When the chains which tie us to the world begin to break , it is time to reconsider the principles of the religion we have professed ; the heart demands consolation , and nominal Christianity has it not to ...
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... existence along the banks of the Osage , till a high flood swept him down to the Missouri , and left him exposed on the shore . The heat of the sun at length ripened him into a man , but with the change of his nature he had not ...
... existence along the banks of the Osage , till a high flood swept him down to the Missouri , and left him exposed on the shore . The heat of the sun at length ripened him into a man , but with the change of his nature he had not ...
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... existence of Job : the manner in which his name is introduced into other parts of the Bible , leaving no room to question this point , which ought not to be sacrificed to any opinions connected with the machinery or supposed design of ...
... existence of Job : the manner in which his name is introduced into other parts of the Bible , leaving no room to question this point , which ought not to be sacrificed to any opinions connected with the machinery or supposed design of ...
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... existence of explicit prophecies of the Messiah among the Heathen . This remarkable poem , the Bishop is of opinion , contains predictions of the Saviour , drawn from the Sibylline oracles . That the same prophecies were extant in a ...
... existence of explicit prophecies of the Messiah among the Heathen . This remarkable poem , the Bishop is of opinion , contains predictions of the Saviour , drawn from the Sibylline oracles . That the same prophecies were extant in a ...
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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...