The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1832 |
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... period of growth , will become ricketty and deformed , from some of the limbs receiving perhaps no absolutely undue increase , but a dis- proportioned increase ; while others , do not indeed shrink , nor perhaps cease to grow , but do ...
... period of growth , will become ricketty and deformed , from some of the limbs receiving perhaps no absolutely undue increase , but a dis- proportioned increase ; while others , do not indeed shrink , nor perhaps cease to grow , but do ...
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... period , the tide of approving sympathy began to ebb . ' † 6 We cannot blame our American brethren for indulging in such fond and false calculations , since similar delusions were cherished by many in this country ; and the vain hope ...
... period , the tide of approving sympathy began to ebb . ' † 6 We cannot blame our American brethren for indulging in such fond and false calculations , since similar delusions were cherished by many in this country ; and the vain hope ...
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... period or state of so- ciety . Would a republican form of government be expedient at Con- stantinople or Tombuctoo ? ... The man who would throw experience out of the discussion , in favour of any à priori theory , is not a real friend ...
... period or state of so- ciety . Would a republican form of government be expedient at Con- stantinople or Tombuctoo ? ... The man who would throw experience out of the discussion , in favour of any à priori theory , is not a real friend ...
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... period , ) thrown irrevocably into the hands of those who represent the operatives , the labouring classes , the men of no property , to the exclusion of the men who pos- sess property . This event is now exultingly expected by the ...
... period , ) thrown irrevocably into the hands of those who represent the operatives , the labouring classes , the men of no property , to the exclusion of the men who pos- sess property . This event is now exultingly expected by the ...
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... periods , its signs and lying won- ders , its prophets and workers of miracles ; -teachers of the cha- racter so ... period of universal excitement , and religion shares in the effect of that excitement . Religious knowledge has ...
... periods , its signs and lying won- ders , its prophets and workers of miracles ; -teachers of the cha- racter so ... period of universal excitement , and religion shares in the effect of that excitement . Religious knowledge has ...
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Page 6 - Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence: the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
Page 13 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding expedients for removing difficulties which never occur.
Page 38 - Let your women keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak ; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Page 540 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 52 - God by the weak pinions of our reason, but he has been pleased to descend to us , and what Socrates said of him, what Plato writ, and the rest of the Heathen philosophers of several nations, is all no more than the twilight of revelation, after the sun of it was set in the race of Noah.
Page 219 - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 192 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 209 - ... and one even put on a military cockade, in order to incite his parishioners to come forward in the public cause. The genuine principles of our admirable constitution were thought by many to be in imminent peril ; yet all who wrote in their defence were exposed to obloquy. A learned prelate asserted, in the House of Lords, that " the people had nothing to do with " the laws but to obey them," and his sentiment was loudly applauded.
Page 348 - Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican.
Page 245 - We have thought fit, by, and with, the Advice of our Privy Council, to...