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Page 12
God ! there is no God but he ! the living , the self - subsisting ; neither slumber nor
sleep seizeth him ; to him belongeth whatsoever is in heaven and on earth . Who
is he that can intercede with him , but through his good pleasure ? he knoweth ...
God ! there is no God but he ! the living , the self - subsisting ; neither slumber nor
sleep seizeth him ; to him belongeth whatsoever is in heaven and on earth . Who
is he that can intercede with him , but through his good pleasure ? he knoweth ...
Page 13
Say , who provideth you food from heaven and earth ? or who hath the absolute
power over the hearing and the sight ? and who bringeth forth the living from the
dead , and bringeth forth the dead from the living , and who governeth all things ?
Say , who provideth you food from heaven and earth ? or who hath the absolute
power over the hearing and the sight ? and who bringeth forth the living from the
dead , and bringeth forth the dead from the living , and who governeth all things ?
Page 51
... the repetition of which by another would only provoke our nausea , when
adopted by him , receives a redintegration of essence not less miraculous than
the conversion of dry bones into living beings — Wherever we dip in his works
we are ...
... the repetition of which by another would only provoke our nausea , when
adopted by him , receives a redintegration of essence not less miraculous than
the conversion of dry bones into living beings — Wherever we dip in his works
we are ...
Page 58
And yet those who first called England the purgatory of servants , sure did us
much wrong : purgatory , itself , being as false in the application to us , as in the
doctrine thereof ; servants , with us , living generally in as good conditions as in
any ...
And yet those who first called England the purgatory of servants , sure did us
much wrong : purgatory , itself , being as false in the application to us , as in the
doctrine thereof ; servants , with us , living generally in as good conditions as in
any ...
Page 62
But the historian may make himself wise , by living as many ages as have past
since the beginning of the world . His books enable him to maintain discourse ,
who , besides the stock of his own experience , may spend on the common purse
of ...
But the historian may make himself wise , by living as many ages as have past
since the beginning of the world . His books enable him to maintain discourse ,
who , besides the stock of his own experience , may spend on the common purse
of ...
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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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