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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... period just preceding their beginning to form the natives into regular soldiers , and as in 1817 . It is curious to take a retrospective view of an English factor at his desk in 1746 , with a pen behind his ear trembling at the nod of ...
... period just preceding their beginning to form the natives into regular soldiers , and as in 1817 . It is curious to take a retrospective view of an English factor at his desk in 1746 , with a pen behind his ear trembling at the nod of ...
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... period with the Sepoys , that they had become attached to each other ; and the former being aware of the prejudices of the latter , have been known , when they happened to arrive the first in camp , to wait till Jack Sepoy ( as they ...
... period with the Sepoys , that they had become attached to each other ; and the former being aware of the prejudices of the latter , have been known , when they happened to arrive the first in camp , to wait till Jack Sepoy ( as they ...
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... periods , with angry swarms that eat up every thing green and pleasant , and defile all the wholesome food that re- mains . This then is the time in which it may be hoped , that an extensively prevailing good sense , and a large ...
... periods , with angry swarms that eat up every thing green and pleasant , and defile all the wholesome food that re- mains . This then is the time in which it may be hoped , that an extensively prevailing good sense , and a large ...
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... period of our own lives furnishes the history , and of which we can all recognise the result , if we cannot accurately trace the progress , a system of universal inquisition . The world having unfortunately discovered that it had been ...
... period of our own lives furnishes the history , and of which we can all recognise the result , if we cannot accurately trace the progress , a system of universal inquisition . The world having unfortunately discovered that it had been ...
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... period of the past history of that pernicious superstition and destructive tyranny , is it intended to compare its present fortunes ? Certainly not with its circumstances at any very distant date . A few centuries only are past , since ...
... period of the past history of that pernicious superstition and destructive tyranny , is it intended to compare its present fortunes ? Certainly not with its circumstances at any very distant date . A few centuries only are past , since ...
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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.
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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.
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.