The Quarterly Review, Volume 41William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1829 - English literature |
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... reason of her adversaries , ( which before the reformation she had , ) though she has much to fear , God knows , from their want of it ; nor yet from treachery within the camp . It is from the hold of un - reason and misrule that she ...
... reason of her adversaries , ( which before the reformation she had , ) though she has much to fear , God knows , from their want of it ; nor yet from treachery within the camp . It is from the hold of un - reason and misrule that she ...
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... reason to dissent from him , that John Wesley was an instrument in God's hands , for the cor- rection of the times . For a century before him , the peculiar doctrines of Christianity had not been brought forward so pro- minently as they ...
... reason to dissent from him , that John Wesley was an instrument in God's hands , for the cor- rection of the times . For a century before him , the peculiar doctrines of Christianity had not been brought forward so pro- minently as they ...
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... reason . ' Your age , ' says he , has not advanced more in chemical and mechanical science , and in promoting the comforts and luxuries of life for the classes to whose lot comforts and luxuries fall , than it has gone backward in some ...
... reason . ' Your age , ' says he , has not advanced more in chemical and mechanical science , and in promoting the comforts and luxuries of life for the classes to whose lot comforts and luxuries fall , than it has gone backward in some ...
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... reason why men in later times have been worsened by colonisation ( as they very generally have been , from whatever nation they have been sent forth ) is , that they have not borne this in mind . In this respect , the Jews have been ...
... reason why men in later times have been worsened by colonisation ( as they very generally have been , from whatever nation they have been sent forth ) is , that they have not borne this in mind . In this respect , the Jews have been ...
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... reason that so many persons were seized was , that the Burmans sent nu- merous parties throughout the country , who surprised and surrounded the villages , making prisoners of the inhabitants . All the prisoners were afterwards ...
... reason that so many persons were seized was , that the Burmans sent nu- merous parties throughout the country , who surprised and surrounded the villages , making prisoners of the inhabitants . All the prisoners were afterwards ...
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Page 298 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 17 - The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast...
Page 26 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 242 - I) your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up, and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Page 100 - I have heard that a minister of state in the reign of queen Elizabeth had all manner of books and ballads brought to him, of what kind soever, and took great notice how much they took with the people ; upon which he would, and certainly might, very well judge of their present dispositions, and the most proper way of applying them according to his own purposes.
Page 366 - THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
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Page 242 - For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest, and therefore dearest wool, there noblemen and gentlemen : yea, and certain Abbots, holy men, no doubt, not contenting themselves with the yearly revenues and profits that were wont to grow to their forefathers and predecessors of their lands...
Page 299 - It is a dark and fearful thing ; It steals along with withering tread, Or sweeps on wild destruction's wing. That thought comes o'er me in the hour Of grief, of sickness, or of sadness; 'Tis not the dread of death ; 'tis more, — It is the dread of madness.
Page 180 - Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Smart showed the disturbance of his mind by falling upon his knees and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding...