The Eclectic Review, Volume 12; Volume 76Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood 1842 |
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... respect to these last , the sentence of John Dryden - Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet ! ' - a dictum , by the way , which that cousin never afterwards either forgot or forgave . In fact , Swift was the very essence of ...
... respect to these last , the sentence of John Dryden - Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet ! ' - a dictum , by the way , which that cousin never afterwards either forgot or forgave . In fact , Swift was the very essence of ...
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... respect to Religion and Govern- ment ' appeared in 1708. Its fury in favour of the penal laws against nonconformity procures for it no slight praise from our gifted , but most prejudiced , biographer . Worldly writers can have no ...
... respect to Religion and Govern- ment ' appeared in 1708. Its fury in favour of the penal laws against nonconformity procures for it no slight praise from our gifted , but most prejudiced , biographer . Worldly writers can have no ...
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... respect to which , a brief extract may be ven- tured upon . · Perhaps no work ever exhibited such general attraction to all classes . It offered personal and political satire to readers in high life , low and coarse incidents to the ...
... respect to which , a brief extract may be ven- tured upon . · Perhaps no work ever exhibited such general attraction to all classes . It offered personal and political satire to readers in high life , low and coarse incidents to the ...
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... respecting church polity , but at the same time too philosophic and too candid not to perceive and admit that wisdom ... respect for truth to feel contempt for conscientious dissidents . The work before us expresses and proves all this ...
... respecting church polity , but at the same time too philosophic and too candid not to perceive and admit that wisdom ... respect for truth to feel contempt for conscientious dissidents . The work before us expresses and proves all this ...
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... respect to human reason , and most to mere authority , feel and do homage to the spirit of the age . Right or wrong in their views of the intellectual , moral , and social wants and dictates of our common nature , they still feel it ...
... respect to human reason , and most to mere authority , feel and do homage to the spirit of the age . Right or wrong in their views of the intellectual , moral , and social wants and dictates of our common nature , they still feel it ...
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Page 294 - THE visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 654 - We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.
Page 333 - I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. I impeach him in the name of the Commons' House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed.
Page 53 - Sleep breathes at last from out thee, My little patient boy; And balmy rest about thee— Smooths off the day's annoy. I sit me down and think Of all thy winning ways; Yet almost wish with sudden shrink That I had less to praise. Thy sidelong pillowed meekness, Thy thanks to all that aid, Thy heart in pain and weakness Of fancied faults afraid ; The little trembling hand That wipes thy quiet tears, These, these are things that may demand Dread memories for years. Sorrows I've had, severe ones.
Page 506 - And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.
Page 661 - Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.
Page 182 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 615 - Take my poor heart and let it be For ever closed to all but thee: Seal thou my breast, and let me wear That pledge of love for ever there.
Page 58 - Brethren, the days of want and despondency ; and " all things whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye even so unto them.
Page 42 - The remedy is wholly in your own hands ; and therefore I have digressed a little, in order to refresh and continue that spirit so seasonably raised among you ; and to let you see, that by the laws of GOD, of NATURE, of NATIONS, and of your COUNTRY, you ARE and OUGHT to be as FREE a people as your brethren in England.