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... fentiments from the founder and firft teachers of the Chriftian religion . In order to prove that the Chriftian fathers were not hoftile to human learning , our author quotes many paffages from their writings , in which they either ...
... fentiments from the founder and firft teachers of the Chriftian religion . In order to prove that the Chriftian fathers were not hoftile to human learning , our author quotes many paffages from their writings , in which they either ...
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... fentiments of it , and feen clearly that Philofophy and Revelation proceed from the fame fource , and tend to promote the fame end . ' The manner in which Mr. Chriftie endeavours to account for the inconfiftency that at first view ...
... fentiments of it , and feen clearly that Philofophy and Revelation proceed from the fame fource , and tend to promote the fame end . ' The manner in which Mr. Chriftie endeavours to account for the inconfiftency that at first view ...
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... fentiments advanced in this effay fo import- ant , that we shall not apologize for giving them as extenfive a circulation as we are able , by making a large extract : I am far from affenting to their opinion , who prefer favage life to ...
... fentiments advanced in this effay fo import- ant , that we shall not apologize for giving them as extenfive a circulation as we are able , by making a large extract : I am far from affenting to their opinion , who prefer favage life to ...
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... fentiments , be ultimately productive of con- fequences the moft beneficial . Far as the world has advanced to maturity , and enlightened as is the prefent age , compared with former obfcurity , yet are the generality of mankind by no ...
... fentiments , be ultimately productive of con- fequences the moft beneficial . Far as the world has advanced to maturity , and enlightened as is the prefent age , compared with former obfcurity , yet are the generality of mankind by no ...
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... fentiment , and may be applied in other in- ftances , as properly as in that immediately before us : fince nothing can be more preventive of improvement , nor more ini- mical to the comfort and intereft of men , than a fervile at ...
... fentiment , and may be applied in other in- ftances , as properly as in that immediately before us : fince nothing can be more preventive of improvement , nor more ini- mical to the comfort and intereft of men , than a fervile at ...
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Page 280 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 42 - Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
Page 208 - ... independent of men ; in the same manner, I mean, to prevent misconstruction, as one man is independent of another. Nay, marriage will never be held sacred till women, by being brought up with men, are prepared to be their companions rather than their mistresses ; for the mean doublings of cunning will ever render them contemptible, whilst oppression renders them timid.
Page 77 - Poetry, indeed cannot be translated ; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve languages ; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language, if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.
Page 79 - So morbid was his temperament that he never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs; when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters; when he rode, he had no command or direction of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon.
Page 207 - I am much mistaken if some latent vigour would not soon give health and spirit to their eyes, and some lines drawn by the exercise of reason on the blank cheeks, which before were only undulated by dimples, might restore lost dignity to the character, or rather enable it to attain the true dignity of its nature. Virtue is not to be acquired even by speculation, much less by the negative supineness that wealth naturally generates.
Page 384 - And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand.
Page 362 - Nor think him all thy own. To-morrow, in the church to wed, Impatient, both prepare ! But know, fond maid ; and know, false man, That Lucy will be there ! " Then bear my corse, my comrades, bear, This bridegroom blithe to meet, He in his wedding-trim so gay, I in my winding-sheet.
Page 207 - What can be a more melancholy sight to a thinking mind than to look into the numerous carriages that drive helter-skelter about this metropolis in a morning full of pale-faced creatures who are flying from themselves ! I have often wished, with Dr.
Page 214 - Felix trembled, and anfwered, Go " thy way for this time, when I have a convenient feafon