The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1840 |
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... living instances to the truth of these observations . On the other hand , we have tasked our memory , and tasked it in vain , to supply a single instance of an illiterate man attaining and keeping a position in which he could by ...
... living instances to the truth of these observations . On the other hand , we have tasked our memory , and tasked it in vain , to supply a single instance of an illiterate man attaining and keeping a position in which he could by ...
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... living London_Physicians and Surgeons . 2 Vols . London : Longman , Orme , Brown , and Co. 1839 . THE 6 HE only commendation we can bestow upon these volumes is that of being a curious mélange of anecdotes respecting the art of medicine ...
... living London_Physicians and Surgeons . 2 Vols . London : Longman , Orme , Brown , and Co. 1839 . THE 6 HE only commendation we can bestow upon these volumes is that of being a curious mélange of anecdotes respecting the art of medicine ...
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... living physicians and surgeons , ' the most trifling and unimportant peculiarities connected with the individual are frequently pressed into the service . Thus of Dr. Granville we are told ' that in personal appearance be resembles a ...
... living physicians and surgeons , ' the most trifling and unimportant peculiarities connected with the individual are frequently pressed into the service . Thus of Dr. Granville we are told ' that in personal appearance be resembles a ...
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... living reality , adapted to the wants and circumstances of the nineteenth century , than a stuffed image of the first . But to be set on having many presbyters in every church , barely to imitate the outside of the apostolic ...
... living reality , adapted to the wants and circumstances of the nineteenth century , than a stuffed image of the first . But to be set on having many presbyters in every church , barely to imitate the outside of the apostolic ...
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... living within its pale . ' We differ widely from this Brother . If of two churches , one is ill- managed and opposes vast obstacles to change , while another is somewhat better ordered , and presents inferior impediments ; we hold ...
... living within its pale . ' We differ widely from this Brother . If of two churches , one is ill- managed and opposes vast obstacles to change , while another is somewhat better ordered , and presents inferior impediments ; we hold ...
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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...
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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.