The Eclectic Review, Volume 12; Volume 30Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood C. Taylor, 1819 |
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... attention on a wide circle of correspondence , which had vanity , perhaps , more than a thirst after knowledge , for its source . But I have been led to perceive the perilous frivolity of such whimsies in advancing years , and to fix my ...
... attention on a wide circle of correspondence , which had vanity , perhaps , more than a thirst after knowledge , for its source . But I have been led to perceive the perilous frivolity of such whimsies in advancing years , and to fix my ...
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... attention on the wrong word : the passage is evidently corrupt . I read , as I believe the Author wrote , How , if your husband's heart's some otherwhere ? i ' This is a natural question , and so familiar where jealousy operates , that ...
... attention on the wrong word : the passage is evidently corrupt . I read , as I believe the Author wrote , How , if your husband's heart's some otherwhere ? i ' This is a natural question , and so familiar where jealousy operates , that ...
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... attention towards them . The spirit and object of these Letters may be ascertained from the following queries . Sir , allow me to ask you , Whether Popery be an evil ? Whether it does not still exist ? Whether it has undergone any ...
... attention towards them . The spirit and object of these Letters may be ascertained from the following queries . Sir , allow me to ask you , Whether Popery be an evil ? Whether it does not still exist ? Whether it has undergone any ...
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... attention of Protestants , not to Mr. Butler's books , but to bulls and proclamations from the head quarters of Popery , at Rome . From these they may clearly perceive what Popery is determined on accomplishing , if ever an appropriate ...
... attention of Protestants , not to Mr. Butler's books , but to bulls and proclamations from the head quarters of Popery , at Rome . From these they may clearly perceive what Popery is determined on accomplishing , if ever an appropriate ...
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... attention drawn off to some other question , likely to be admitted on insufficient evidence , and the flaws in that evidence overlooked ? Experience will teach us that such instances often occur : witness the well - known anecdote of ...
... attention drawn off to some other question , likely to be admitted on insufficient evidence , and the flaws in that evidence overlooked ? Experience will teach us that such instances often occur : witness the well - known anecdote of ...
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Page 132 - And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us, in the likeness of men.
Page 387 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Page 593 - Lord, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Page 149 - No more — no more — oh ! never more on me The freshness of the heart can fall like dew, Which out of all the lovely things we see Extracts emotions beautiful and new, Hived in our bosoms like the bag o' the bee, Think'st thou the honey with those objects grew?
Page 466 - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 151 - Away, away, my steed and I, Upon the pinions of the wind. All human dwellings left behind ; We sped like meteors through the sky...
Page 128 - I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Page 437 - ... stone, stood glimmering in the moonlight, like the sheeted spectre of some huge giant. A wilder, or more disconsolate dwelling, it was perhaps difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky beach at a profound distance beneath, was to the ear what the landscape was to the eye — a symbol of unvaried and monotonous melancholy, not unmingled with horror.
Page 577 - Now, Spring returns : but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown.
Page 65 - Suffices me — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If I along that lowly way With sympathetic heart may stray, And with a soul of power.