The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1840 |
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... language of the old proverb , ' to have half a loaf than no bread . ' But the question returns - what is the most efficient training to which such a man can be subjected ? for we are supposing that , in the given case , it is decided ...
... language of the old proverb , ' to have half a loaf than no bread . ' But the question returns - what is the most efficient training to which such a man can be subjected ? for we are supposing that , in the given case , it is decided ...
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... language and his command over it -points to him of such vital importance - to improve his taste and to form his style . To this we would add a knowledge of the first four books of Euclid . This , though a very moderate portion of ...
... language and his command over it -points to him of such vital importance - to improve his taste and to form his style . To this we would add a knowledge of the first four books of Euclid . This , though a very moderate portion of ...
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... language in general ; and how important it is that a public speaker , whose very instruments are words , should be fully pos- sessed of this knowledge , it is almost superfluous to say . Accustomed from infancy to our native language ...
... language in general ; and how important it is that a public speaker , whose very instruments are words , should be fully pos- sessed of this knowledge , it is almost superfluous to say . Accustomed from infancy to our native language ...
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... language , and facility of utterance ; and , what is still more important , that he may be continually impressed with a salutary remembrance of what is after all the great , the avowed end of all his studies and all his pursuits . But ...
... language , and facility of utterance ; and , what is still more important , that he may be continually impressed with a salutary remembrance of what is after all the great , the avowed end of all his studies and all his pursuits . But ...
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... language of Bishop Horne , ' all objections when considered and answered , turn out to the ' advantage of the gospel , which resembles a fine country in the ' spring season , when the very hedges are in bloom , and every ' thorn ...
... language of Bishop Horne , ' all objections when considered and answered , turn out to the ' advantage of the gospel , which resembles a fine country in the ' spring season , when the very hedges are in bloom , and every ' thorn ...
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Page 181 - Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, That they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Page 441 - Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting.
Page 675 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Page 186 - The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice ; the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Page 606 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain, Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 496 - A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench : He shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Page 419 - The King of France with twenty thousand men, • Marched up the hill, and then marched down again.
Page 295 - I am certain she was not joined with good works, and left the court in a staggering condition: Charity came to the King's feet, and seemed to cover the multitude of sins her sisters had committed; in some...
Page 368 - ... clear as the sun, fair as the moon, and terrible as an army with banners...
Page 123 - ... truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation : others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.