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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... true use to be made of the miscellaneous collection now before us , is to embrace the opportunity it affords us , of throwing light upon the character of the Author of " The Decline and Fall of the " Roman Empire . " That astonishing ...
... true use to be made of the miscellaneous collection now before us , is to embrace the opportunity it affords us , of throwing light upon the character of the Author of " The Decline and Fall of the " Roman Empire . " That astonishing ...
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... true , that many of the Psalms are commemorative of the " miraculous interpositions of God in behalf of the chosen people ; " for , indeed , the history of the Jews is a fundamental part of revealed " religion . Many were probably ...
... true , that many of the Psalms are commemorative of the " miraculous interpositions of God in behalf of the chosen people ; " for , indeed , the history of the Jews is a fundamental part of revealed " religion . Many were probably ...
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... true subject of his own " compositions , it was nothing in his own life , but something put into " his mind by the Holy Spirit of God ; and the misapplication of the " Psalms to the literal David has done more mischief than the misap ...
... true subject of his own " compositions , it was nothing in his own life , but something put into " his mind by the Holy Spirit of God ; and the misapplication of the " Psalms to the literal David has done more mischief than the misap ...
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... true subject was - something put into his mind by the Spirit of God . ' " 6 3. Many of the descriptions , especially those of conquest and triumph , have a remarkable resemblance to the symbolical descriptions of the glorified Saviour ...
... true subject was - something put into his mind by the Spirit of God . ' " 6 3. Many of the descriptions , especially those of conquest and triumph , have a remarkable resemblance to the symbolical descriptions of the glorified Saviour ...
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... true that at this hour of rural repose the air no longer resounds with Bucolic song , you no longer hear the " dulcia linquimus arva , " but the victims of sacred immolation are still to be seen . White bulls , and troops of half - wild ...
... true that at this hour of rural repose the air no longer resounds with Bucolic song , you no longer hear the " dulcia linquimus arva , " but the victims of sacred immolation are still to be seen . White bulls , and troops of half - wild ...
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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...