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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... seems to pass before our eyes . In this respect he is greatly inferior to his two northern rivals . Their histories are read with an interest which is quite independent on the desire of informa- tion . We are imperceptibly drawn along ...
... seems to pass before our eyes . In this respect he is greatly inferior to his two northern rivals . Their histories are read with an interest which is quite independent on the desire of informa- tion . We are imperceptibly drawn along ...
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... seem generally to have been left to ar- range themselves at the time of composing . Instead of paint- ing ... seems to have bestowed much more labour upon the collo- cation of words , than upon that of events ; he was far more ...
... seem generally to have been left to ar- range themselves at the time of composing . Instead of paint- ing ... seems to have bestowed much more labour upon the collo- cation of words , than upon that of events ; he was far more ...
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... seems to have been , that there was no thought , however original or complicated , which he could not force to assume a decent verbal dress : If you have thoughts , and can't express them , Gibbon will teach you how to dress them ...
... seems to have been , that there was no thought , however original or complicated , which he could not force to assume a decent verbal dress : If you have thoughts , and can't express them , Gibbon will teach you how to dress them ...
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... seems never to have intended his work for the benefit of the profanum vulgus , but to have written chiefly for scholars , or the higher ranks of society . Another peculiarity in the style of Gibbon , is , that for the sake of variety ...
... seems never to have intended his work for the benefit of the profanum vulgus , but to have written chiefly for scholars , or the higher ranks of society . Another peculiarity in the style of Gibbon , is , that for the sake of variety ...
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... seems to have always taken it as an axiom , -at least a position which no man but himself was entitled to question , - that weak evidence could be helped out by ecclesiastical deci- sion , and that the strongest was defective if it ...
... seems to have always taken it as an axiom , -at least a position which no man but himself was entitled to question , - that weak evidence could be helped out by ecclesiastical deci- sion , and that the strongest was defective if it ...
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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...