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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... interest in his descriptions , inter- spersed in different parts of the narrative , of the constitution , habits , efficiency , and progressive alteration of quality of the native troops in the English service . Some of the incidents of ...
... interest in his descriptions , inter- spersed in different parts of the narrative , of the constitution , habits , efficiency , and progressive alteration of quality of the native troops in the English service . Some of the incidents of ...
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... interest , because , though sometimes suffering from their predatory violence , they could on occasions reinforce their armies from these law- less bands . It was worthy of the accustomed wisdom of these native despots and courts to ...
... interest , because , though sometimes suffering from their predatory violence , they could on occasions reinforce their armies from these law- less bands . It was worthy of the accustomed wisdom of these native despots and courts to ...
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... interest of their ex- istence they remain in a state of ignorance and utter perversion ? -So liberal , so enlarged , so sublime , is the view which mere politicians take of a mighty assemblage of human beings ! The animated felicitation ...
... interest of their ex- istence they remain in a state of ignorance and utter perversion ? -So liberal , so enlarged , so sublime , is the view which mere politicians take of a mighty assemblage of human beings ! The animated felicitation ...
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... interests of book - collectors , editors , and publishers , may be involved in the general work of purgation , which is going forward , and whether the public may not be in a state of prepa- ration to think , before many more lustrums ...
... interests of book - collectors , editors , and publishers , may be involved in the general work of purgation , which is going forward , and whether the public may not be in a state of prepa- ration to think , before many more lustrums ...
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... interests of the Church itself , since a taste for power is inseparable from human nature ; and that the times may return when the power and influence of the See of Rome , if not restrained by wholesome regulations , may be turned ...
... interests of the Church itself , since a taste for power is inseparable from human nature ; and that the times may return when the power and influence of the See of Rome , if not restrained by wholesome regulations , may be turned ...
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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.
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