The Quarterly review, Volume 21Murray, 1819 |
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... persons and property is the most essential ingredient in public prosperity . The laws of England are the best foundation for this security , and these , throughout the United States , have regu- lated the decisions of their courts of ...
... persons and property is the most essential ingredient in public prosperity . The laws of England are the best foundation for this security , and these , throughout the United States , have regu- lated the decisions of their courts of ...
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... persons , were swept away by a deluge , which is said to have opened the fountains of the great deep , or in other words , broken the crust of the earth . 2dly , That the immediate agent in this dispensation was 2dly , 42 Gisborne's ...
... persons , were swept away by a deluge , which is said to have opened the fountains of the great deep , or in other words , broken the crust of the earth . 2dly , That the immediate agent in this dispensation was 2dly , 42 Gisborne's ...
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... whose account , as the author and ourselves agree , this tremendous visitation was sent upon the earth , and of which every individual perished excepting - excepting eight persons ? Besides , how does this Gisborne's Natural Theology . 47.
... whose account , as the author and ourselves agree , this tremendous visitation was sent upon the earth , and of which every individual perished excepting - excepting eight persons ? Besides , how does this Gisborne's Natural Theology . 47.
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- excepting eight persons ? Besides , how does this hypothesis ac- count for the extinction of so many genera and ... person so well acquainted with antiquity as Mr. Gisborne , may attempt to inva- fidate this assertion by attempting to ...
- excepting eight persons ? Besides , how does this hypothesis ac- count for the extinction of so many genera and ... person so well acquainted with antiquity as Mr. Gisborne , may attempt to inva- fidate this assertion by attempting to ...
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... persons then are , with Mr. Gis- borne's permission , to be divided into two classes : the first , con- sisting of those who doubt or deny the reality of the Noachian de- luge ; and the second , among whom we desire to be numbered , of ...
... persons then are , with Mr. Gis- borne's permission , to be divided into two classes : the first , con- sisting of those who doubt or deny the reality of the Noachian de- luge ; and the second , among whom we desire to be numbered , of ...
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Page 50 - In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Page 61 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 54 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent yc shall all likewise perish.
Page 59 - If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Page 131 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 61 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 360 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 397 - To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here.
Page 360 - The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Page 360 - To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their Elysiums. But all this is nothing in the metaphysics of true belief.