The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 5, Part 11809 |
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... former works will open his ser- mons with any expectation of what we usually call eloquence . A mind , predetermined perhaps by its original structure , and therefore accustomed from early youth to seek the rationale , as it used to be ...
... former works will open his ser- mons with any expectation of what we usually call eloquence . A mind , predetermined perhaps by its original structure , and therefore accustomed from early youth to seek the rationale , as it used to be ...
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... former bards had been situated in Arcadia , Mr. Crabbe had nothing to do but to look at home , in his own parishes , ( the ' one near a smuggling creek on the sea - coast , and the other among the flats of Leicestershire , ) to become ...
... former bards had been situated in Arcadia , Mr. Crabbe had nothing to do but to look at home , in his own parishes , ( the ' one near a smuggling creek on the sea - coast , and the other among the flats of Leicestershire , ) to become ...
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... former critics : but the most affecting cir- cumstance connected with it , we learn from the preface , -it was read to the late Mr. Fox on his death - bed , and was the last composition of the kind that engaged and amused the ca ...
... former critics : but the most affecting cir- cumstance connected with it , we learn from the preface , -it was read to the late Mr. Fox on his death - bed , and was the last composition of the kind that engaged and amused the ca ...
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... former was , however , smaller than the latter , and must have afforded rather an inconvenient descent to the cavern . is now called by the people of the island της Δεξίας το σπηλαιον , or the cave of Dexia . They are entirely unable to ...
... former was , however , smaller than the latter , and must have afforded rather an inconvenient descent to the cavern . is now called by the people of the island της Δεξίας το σπηλαιον , or the cave of Dexia . They are entirely unable to ...
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... former work of the same benevolent and ingenious author , which we have hitherto delayed to notice , with the intention of considering it at some future time with several other publications in a general discussion of Mr. Malthus's ...
... former work of the same benevolent and ingenious author , which we have hitherto delayed to notice , with the intention of considering it at some future time with several other publications in a general discussion of Mr. Malthus's ...
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Page 548 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid — his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Page 548 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Page 230 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 221 - But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
Page 221 - When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice ; (for the LORD thy God is a merciful God ;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
Page 528 - They who contend, that nothing less can justify subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles, than the actual belief of each and every separate proposition contained in them, must suppose, that the legislature expected the consent of ten thousand men, and that in perpetual succession, not to one controverted proposition, but to many hundreds. It is difficult to conceive how this could be expected by any, who ' observed the incurable diversity of human opinion upon all subjects short of demonstration.
Page 317 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 230 - WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Page 154 - O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce 'Twixt natural son and sire ! thou bright defiler Of Hymen's purest bed ! thou valiant Mars ! Thou ever young, fresh, loved, and delicate wooer, Whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow That lies on Dian's lap ! thou visible god, That solder'st close impossibilities, And...
Page 390 - How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in' Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command.