The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 7Tobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1793 |
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Page 296 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 361 - If a prince sends forces into a nation where the people are poor and ignorant, he may lawfully put half of them to death, and make slaves of the rest, in order to civilize and reduce them from their barbarous way of living.
Page 543 - Lord hath not spoken ? when a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Page 336 - ... is inevitably branded in their fuperiors. Upon my repairing to the fpot, on the banks of the river, where the ceremony was to take place, I found the body of the man on a bier, and covered with linen, already brought down and laid at the edge of the river.
Page 577 - ... for maintaining the security and rights of his own dominions ; for supporting his allies; and for opposing views of aggrandizement and ambition on the part of France, which would be at all times dangerous to the general interests of Europe, but are peculiarly...
Page 337 - The moment {he entered, the door was clofed ; the fire was put to the combuflibles, which inftantly flamed, and immenfe quantities of dried wood and other matters were thrown upon it. This laft part of the ceremony was accompanied with the fhouts of the multitude, who now became numerous, and the whole feemed a mafs of confufed rejoicing.
Page 79 - Metaphysics, vol. iv. p. 357. richer and in every respect a finer language than even the Greek of Homer. All the other languages of India have a great resemblance to this language, which is called the Shanscrit.
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Page 443 - Greek writers speak of Homer as an ancient and celebrated poet} it is true also that they have quoted from the works, which they ascribe to him, various passages that we find at present in the Iliad and Odyssey: yet still there...
Page 5 - It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment was ever credited.