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Page 9
The Parthic , the Persian , the Arabian , the Hebrew Monotheists had eagerly
received its precepts , and admitted its divine origin , while considered by them
as zealously advocating their favorite doctrines of the unity of God , and
confirming ...
The Parthic , the Persian , the Arabian , the Hebrew Monotheists had eagerly
received its precepts , and admitted its divine origin , while considered by them
as zealously advocating their favorite doctrines of the unity of God , and
confirming ...
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The Sonnite as well as the Persian doctor has mitigated his prejudices , admits
that his rival “ is a behever , because he recognizes the holy mission of Mahomet
and worships God , " and would be ashamed of the polemics in which he once ...
The Sonnite as well as the Persian doctor has mitigated his prejudices , admits
that his rival “ is a behever , because he recognizes the holy mission of Mahomet
and worships God , " and would be ashamed of the polemics in which he once ...
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Oh you that with me past have here and there A thousand perils , and a thousand
woes , Champions of God , whom his faith to repaire Even from your birth , deere
Christians he chose , You that Greeke guiles and Persian armes ech where ...
Oh you that with me past have here and there A thousand perils , and a thousand
woes , Champions of God , whom his faith to repaire Even from your birth , deere
Christians he chose , You that Greeke guiles and Persian armes ech where ...
Page 207
They were imbued with Arabic and Persian literature , and they arrived , at a
fortunate moment , to give splendor to the schools of Cordoba and Toledo , which
were then in infancy , but which had already given the fairest promises for futurity
.
They were imbued with Arabic and Persian literature , and they arrived , at a
fortunate moment , to give splendor to the schools of Cordoba and Toledo , which
were then in infancy , but which had already given the fairest promises for futurity
.
Page 208
Two of the most eminent of the Persian Jews , the Rabbis Moses and Hanoc ,
were , at this period , brought to the Spanish coast by pirates , and welcomed with
great enthusiasm and distinguished patronage by Hakim , the caliph of Cordoba
...
Two of the most eminent of the Persian Jews , the Rabbis Moses and Hanoc ,
were , at this period , brought to the Spanish coast by pirates , and welcomed with
great enthusiasm and distinguished patronage by Hakim , the caliph of Cordoba
...
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Page 217 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Page 184 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Page 221 - Let us (said he) pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone of all his treasure Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should...
Page 142 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of -Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 218 - WHO says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse ? Is there in truth no beauty ? Is all good structure in a winding stair...
Page 58 - ... but only a rod and a ferula. Secondly, others who are able, use it only as a passage to better preferment, to patch the rents in their present fortune, till they can provide a. new one, and betake themselves to some more gainful calling. Thirdly, they are disheartened from doing their best with the miserable reward which in some places they receive, being masters to their children and slaves to their parents.
Page 143 - But it is not good to stay too long in the theatre. Let us now pass on to the judicial place or palace of the mind, which we are to approach and view with more reverence and attention.
Page 148 - But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth ; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrated, and accommodated for use and practice ; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.
Page 146 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...
Page 220 - I did ; and going did a rainbow note : Surely, thought I, This is the lace of Peace's coat : I will search out the matter.
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| Title | The Retrospective Review.., Volume 3 |
| Editor | Henry Southern |
| Contributors | David Sampson Maurice, Charles and Henry Baldwyn |
| Publisher | Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1821 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Nov 2006 |
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