The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, Volume 15J. Murray, 1790 - Curiosities and wonders |
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... fame language , announcing the triumph of the arts . ཀཱལ When we fee the hand of the artist every day occupied in converting things employed in the most common ufes of life into objects of tafte , it would have been furprising indeed ...
... fame language , announcing the triumph of the arts . ཀཱལ When we fee the hand of the artist every day occupied in converting things employed in the most common ufes of life into objects of tafte , it would have been furprising indeed ...
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... fame time literal and elegant ; it poffefles all the ease of a paraphrase , while it adheres ftrictly to the original . In many places it was difficult , yet abfolutely neceffary to give the precife meaning of his author in all fuch ...
... fame time literal and elegant ; it poffefles all the ease of a paraphrase , while it adheres ftrictly to the original . In many places it was difficult , yet abfolutely neceffary to give the precife meaning of his author in all fuch ...
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... fame rank . 6 Every truth , every fpecies of knowledge , which has diftinct figns , which is founded on clear and certain principles , is scientific ; and it is fo , as far as it can be communicated by words , images , rules ...
... fame rank . 6 Every truth , every fpecies of knowledge , which has diftinct figns , which is founded on clear and certain principles , is scientific ; and it is fo , as far as it can be communicated by words , images , rules ...
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... fame language ? Will his fpirit of obfervation never arrive at truths more refined , and of a nature not to be communicated ? Will he never attempt to foar beyond a height to which he can point with his finger ? Will he always confine ...
... fame language ? Will his fpirit of obfervation never arrive at truths more refined , and of a nature not to be communicated ? Will he never attempt to foar beyond a height to which he can point with his finger ? Will he always confine ...
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... fame holds as to phyfiognomy . It is poffible , to a certain point , to determine phyfiognomic truth , and to exprefs it by figns and words . It is poffible to say , This is the character of an exalted spirit , this feature is peculiar ...
... fame holds as to phyfiognomy . It is poffible , to a certain point , to determine phyfiognomic truth , and to exprefs it by figns and words . It is poffible to say , This is the character of an exalted spirit , this feature is peculiar ...
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Page 261 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 261 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 262 - And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her.
Page 261 - And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you ; and with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you ; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
Page 261 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations; I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 8 - God descended, the guards shrunk back from the terror of his presence, and fell prostrate on the ground : His countenance was like lightning...
Page 351 - The hedge-sparrow commonly takes up four or five days in laying her eggs. During this time, generally after she has laid one or two, the cuckoo contrives to deposit her egg among the rest, leaving the future care of it entirely to the hedge-sparrow.
Page 473 - If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you: But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
Page 116 - And the Lord God faid, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil ; and now left he put forth his hand and take alfo of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever...
Page 127 - And often have I stood to hear it sung, When the clear moon, -with Cytherean smile Emerging from an eastern cloud, has shot A look of pure benevolence and joy Into the heart of night. Yes, I have stood And mark'd thy varied note, and frequent pause, Thy brisk and melancholy mood, with soul Sincerely pleas'd.