The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1842 |
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... present the precepts of Christ in a form acceptable to philosophers and rabbins , partly in order to reply to infidels and heretics . - 3 . By way of illustration : one Platonic doctrine which in this century came in , is , the belief ...
... present the precepts of Christ in a form acceptable to philosophers and rabbins , partly in order to reply to infidels and heretics . - 3 . By way of illustration : one Platonic doctrine which in this century came in , is , the belief ...
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... present century . Amongst them , however , no example can well be more striking than the subject of the following pages . He was at once the wittiest writer of his age , and perhaps the most staunch defender of what are called the ...
... present century . Amongst them , however , no example can well be more striking than the subject of the following pages . He was at once the wittiest writer of his age , and perhaps the most staunch defender of what are called the ...
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... present . Sir Walter Scott seems remarkably inaccurate in such matters , having stated his revenues at this period as between £ 350 and £ 400 a - year . The account - books of the Dean are still in existence , and the fact is ...
... present . Sir Walter Scott seems remarkably inaccurate in such matters , having stated his revenues at this period as between £ 350 and £ 400 a - year . The account - books of the Dean are still in existence , and the fact is ...
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... present cabinet , the artfulness of Swift appeased the incipient mutiny , by his ' Advice humbly offered to the Members of the October Club . ' In this masterpiece of political craftmanship , the dust of certain proportions of truth and ...
... present cabinet , the artfulness of Swift appeased the incipient mutiny , by his ' Advice humbly offered to the Members of the October Club . ' In this masterpiece of political craftmanship , the dust of certain proportions of truth and ...
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... Present State of Affairs . ' The remainder of the political drama develops a painful page in our national annals . Yet it ended in the death of Queen Anne , and the enthronement of George the First . Swift adhered magnanimously to the ...
... Present State of Affairs . ' The remainder of the political drama develops a painful page in our national annals . Yet it ended in the death of Queen Anne , and the enthronement of George the First . Swift adhered magnanimously to the ...
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Page 299 - 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 669 - And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.
Page 49 - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Page 330 - 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 187 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; 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 65 - 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 530 - They sin who tell us love can die, With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From heaven it came, to heaven returneth...
Page 630 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heaven.
Page 60 - 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...
Page 373 - Bancroft, who was by, maintained 'that thereof there was no necessity, seeing where Bishops could not be had, the ordination given by the Presbyters must be esteemed lawful; otherwise that it might be doubted if there were any lawful vocation in most of the reformed Churches...