The Critical Review: Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1805 - English literature |
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... present work , were I to enter into a detail of their code of laws , which indeed I am not sufficiently prepared to do . They are published for the use of the subject , in the plainest characters that the language will admit , making ...
... present work , were I to enter into a detail of their code of laws , which indeed I am not sufficiently prepared to do . They are published for the use of the subject , in the plainest characters that the language will admit , making ...
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... present is not an age which can be charged with want of curiosity in what relates to the literary characters by which it has been distinguished . Genius is every where traced to the closet and the fireside . This narrow inspection of ...
... present is not an age which can be charged with want of curiosity in what relates to the literary characters by which it has been distinguished . Genius is every where traced to the closet and the fireside . This narrow inspection of ...
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... present state , it can only serve at most to stimulate the researches of philosophers ; and it , perhaps , still remains to be determined by unobjectionable experiments , whether the disease called blight in corn be occasioned by a ...
... present state , it can only serve at most to stimulate the researches of philosophers ; and it , perhaps , still remains to be determined by unobjectionable experiments , whether the disease called blight in corn be occasioned by a ...
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... present rage for writing works of science in a popular manner , we deem it our duty to with- hold our approbation : c'est un peu trop à la Française , and it has already contributed no little to the prevalence of quackery in almost ...
... present rage for writing works of science in a popular manner , we deem it our duty to with- hold our approbation : c'est un peu trop à la Française , and it has already contributed no little to the prevalence of quackery in almost ...
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... present publication ) , My heart is susceptible of all the softer emotions . I love to dwell on subjects which arrest my feelings , and my soul continues the indulgence till a flood of tears breaks the charm . ' The model of this author ...
... present publication ) , My heart is susceptible of all the softer emotions . I love to dwell on subjects which arrest my feelings , and my soul continues the indulgence till a flood of tears breaks the charm . ' The model of this author ...
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Page 47 - Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say ? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods : because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Page 231 - And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair !...
Page 50 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Page 231 - If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey.
Page 228 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot; Cold diffidence and age's frost In the full tide of song were lost...
Page 162 - God but by new birth, nor according to the manifest ordinary course of divine dispensation newborn, but by that baptism which both declareth and maketh us Christians. In which respect we justly hold it to be the door of our actual entrance into God's house, the first apparent beginning of life, a seal perhaps to the grace of Election, before received, but to our sanctification here a step that hath not any before it.
Page 382 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 48 - Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 45 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure...
Page 141 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...