The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 96Archibald Constable and Company, 1825 |
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Page 572 - And we also bless thy holy name for all thy servants, who, having finished their course in faith, do now rest from their labours. And we yield unto thee most high praise and hearty thanks, for the wonderful grace and virtue declared in all thy saints, who have been the choice vessels of thy grace, and the lights of the world in their several generations...
Page 572 - ... and everlasting peace, and that at the day of the general resurrection we, and all they which be of the mystical body of thy Son, may altogether be set on his right hand...
Page 175 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 462 - Sumner had a fine voice, fine ear, fine taste, and, therefore, pronunciation was frequently the favourite subject between him and Tom Sheridan. I was present at many of their discussions and disputes, and sometimes took a very active part in them,— but Richard was not present. The father, you know, was a wrong-headed, whimsical man, and, perhaps, his scanty circumstances were one of the reasons, which prevented him from sending Richard to the University. He must have been aware, as Sumner and I...
Page 38 - There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjectives, derived from substantives, the termination of participles; such as the cultured plain, the daisied bank ; but I was sorry to see, in the lines of a scholar like Gray, the honied Spring.
Page 64 - Greece is, at present, placed between three measures: either to reconquer her liberty, to become a dependence of the sovereigns of Europe, or to return to a Turkish province. She has the choice only of these three alternatives. Civil war is but a road which leads to the two latter.
Page 87 - That the state of Slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British Constitution, and of the Christian religion ; and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British Colonies, with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due regard to the wellbeing of the parties concerned.
Page 73 - ... keep others waking to defend their lives, and did light his candle at the flames of their houses to lead him in the darkness; that the day was his night, and the night his day; that...
Page 207 - A Matron shall be appointed in every Prison in which Female Prisoners shall be confined, who shall reside in the Prison ; and it shall be the Duty of the Matron constantly to superintend the Female Prisoners.
Page 110 - I continue to receive from Foreign Powers the strongest assurances of their friendly disposition towards this Country; and of their earnest desire to maintain the general tranquillity.