The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson Munroe and Francis, 1808 - American literature Vols. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... causes be not con- venient ; and why should not these , or why should not any , who are thus disposed , borrow the assist ... cause of general literature . Among the clergy of other nations , there are places of comparative ease , which ...
... causes be not con- venient ; and why should not these , or why should not any , who are thus disposed , borrow the assist ... cause of general literature . Among the clergy of other nations , there are places of comparative ease , which ...
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... cause of motion to exist in the Moon , as well as in the Earth . Indeed , several obser- vations have rendered the exis- tence of volcanoes there extreme- ly probable . In the calculation just now referred to , we may re- mark , that no ...
... cause of motion to exist in the Moon , as well as in the Earth . Indeed , several obser- vations have rendered the exis- tence of volcanoes there extreme- ly probable . In the calculation just now referred to , we may re- mark , that no ...
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... cause ; shall sketch the natural history of our sensibility to the sufferings of others ; and trace the origin of the pleasure apparently found in compassionate , sympathetick feelings , excited by the presence or the representation of ...
... cause ; shall sketch the natural history of our sensibility to the sufferings of others ; and trace the origin of the pleasure apparently found in compassionate , sympathetick feelings , excited by the presence or the representation of ...
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... cause of this pleasure ? What is their value and use in respect to char- acter and enjoyment ? GARTH . THE Dispensary of Garth , though deservedly celebrated and much read at the time of its ap- pearance , has of late been much ...
... cause of this pleasure ? What is their value and use in respect to char- acter and enjoyment ? GARTH . THE Dispensary of Garth , though deservedly celebrated and much read at the time of its ap- pearance , has of late been much ...
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... cause ' of her sorrow . ' Ere reason form'd her tender mind , The virgin learn'd to love : Compassion taught her to be kind , Deceit she was above . ' How many amorous maids , pierced by the shafts of the unre- lenting god , before ...
... cause ' of her sorrow . ' Ere reason form'd her tender mind , The virgin learn'd to love : Compassion taught her to be kind , Deceit she was above . ' How many amorous maids , pierced by the shafts of the unre- lenting god , before ...
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Page 599 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 309 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good : here stands the man ; good : If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes ; mark you that ? but if the water come to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life. 2 Clo. But is this law ? 1 Clo. Ay, marry is 't ; crowner's-quest law. 2 Clo. Will you ha...
Page 312 - Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father, now! For why Will man lament the state he should envy? To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery, yet age! Rest in soft peace; and, asked, say: Here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry — For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
Page 230 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 217 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 342 - A Platform of Church Discipline gathered out of the word of God: and agreed upon by the Elders; and Messengers of the Churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in New England to be presented to the Churches and General!
Page 217 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Page 30 - To die, is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never break nor tempests roar : Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis o'er.
Page 111 - When at Oxford, I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it But 1 found Law quite an overmatch for me...
Page 146 - ... becomes pleasure. Hence it proceeds that there is such a thing as a sorrow soft and agreeable: it is a pain weakened and diminished. The heart likes naturally to be moved and affected. Melancholy objects suit it, and even disastrous and sorrowful, provided they are softened by some circumstance. It is certain that, on the theatre, the representation has almost the effect of reality; yet it has not altogether that effect.