The Quarterly Review, Volume 45William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1831 - English literature |
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... things in God , and discerning the divine Unity which thus comprehends all things . After death , they ascend and are absorbed into Brahm , the great primal spirit . If through their own want of resolution , or cut short by death , they ...
... things in God , and discerning the divine Unity which thus comprehends all things . After death , they ascend and are absorbed into Brahm , the great primal spirit . If through their own want of resolution , or cut short by death , they ...
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... things emanate , into whom all are re - ab- sorbed . Rising by degrees , he first proclaims himself to be what- ever is most excellent in the whole of nature he is the soul in the body - among the stars the most splendid - among ...
... things emanate , into whom all are re - ab- sorbed . Rising by degrees , he first proclaims himself to be what- ever is most excellent in the whole of nature he is the soul in the body - among the stars the most splendid - among ...
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... things emanate from , so all things are re - absorbed into this uni- versal being . He is not only the creator and origin , but likewise the destroyer and the termination of created things , and is repre- sented as a being into whose ...
... things emanate from , so all things are re - absorbed into this uni- versal being . He is not only the creator and origin , but likewise the destroyer and the termination of created things , and is repre- sented as a being into whose ...
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... things . The deluge approaches , Manu embarks , the wondrous Fish is at hand , • King of Men , the born of Manu ! Manu saw the sea - born Fish , In his form foreshewn , the horned , like a mountain huge and high . ' · Manu , as he is ...
... things . The deluge approaches , Manu embarks , the wondrous Fish is at hand , • King of Men , the born of Manu ! Manu saw the sea - born Fish , In his form foreshewn , the horned , like a mountain huge and high . ' · Manu , as he is ...
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... things to render them generally fashionable , or enough of wealth to make them profitable . In England , they assure us , it is quite otherwise . There is not only a very extensive taste for every description of science diffused ...
... things to render them generally fashionable , or enough of wealth to make them profitable . In England , they assure us , it is quite otherwise . There is not only a very extensive taste for every description of science diffused ...
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Page 517 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Page 164 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust...
Page 402 - Therefore, no doubt, the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge ; wherein many things are reserved, which kings with their treasure cannot buy, nor with their force command ; their spials and intelligencers can give no news of them, their seamen and discoverers cannot sail where they grow : now we govern nature in opinions, but we are thrall unto her in necessity ; but if we would be led by her in invention, we should command her in action.
Page 11 - Inconstant, like the sea, of whence 't is born, Rough, swelling, like a storm; With whom who sails, rides on the surge of fear, And boils as if he were In a continual tempest. Now, true Love No such effects doth prove; That is an essence far more gentle, fine, Pure, perfect, nay, divine; It is a golden chain let down from heaven, Whose links are bright and even, That falls like sleep on lovers, and combines The soft and sweetest minds In equal knots : this bears no brands nor darts, To murther different...
Page 222 - And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit These things teach and exhort.
Page 353 - Louisburg, his friends found him one day asleep in his tent, and evidently much annoyed by the cannonading. They ^then made him believe that he was engaged, when he expressed great fear, and showed an evident disposition to run away. Against this they remonstrated, but at the same time increased his fears by imitating the groans of the wounded and the dying ; and when he asked, as he often did, who was down, they named his particular friends. At last they told him that the man next...
Page 123 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 424 - Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
Page 448 - O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that heal'st with blood The earth when it is sick, and cur'st the world O' the plurisy of people ; I do take Thy signs auspiciously, and in thy name To my design march boldly.