The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1851 |
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... objects , they all agree in considering only the various re- lations or proportions subsisting among those objects , I thought it best to consider these proportions in the most general form possible . Perceiving , further , that in ...
... objects , they all agree in considering only the various re- lations or proportions subsisting among those objects , I thought it best to consider these proportions in the most general form possible . Perceiving , further , that in ...
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... object was to draw from Howe some defence , if he approved , of the practice , or to give him an opportunity to declare against it if he did not , without the offence of a voluntary announcement . But he got no satisfaction : he ought ...
... object was to draw from Howe some defence , if he approved , of the practice , or to give him an opportunity to declare against it if he did not , without the offence of a voluntary announcement . But he got no satisfaction : he ought ...
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... object of his mission was the union of that country with England . There he was , at first , very unpopular , but he conducted him- self so well that at last he became somewhat of a favourite . His services were repaid with a pension on ...
... object of his mission was the union of that country with England . There he was , at first , very unpopular , but he conducted him- self so well that at last he became somewhat of a favourite . His services were repaid with a pension on ...
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... object was the revival of family religion , which had visibly decayed ; and the piety , as well as the nature and good sense pervading it , have kept it popular till the present day . His chief labours were , however , in fiction ; and ...
... object was the revival of family religion , which had visibly decayed ; and the piety , as well as the nature and good sense pervading it , have kept it popular till the present day . His chief labours were , however , in fiction ; and ...
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... object of it ; and to the incident which followed , the most humorous in the book , Cervantes seems to have been indebted for Don Quixote's adventure with the wine skins . Sir George Head says it is meant for a satire on the Pudentilla ...
... object of it ; and to the incident which followed , the most humorous in the book , Cervantes seems to have been indebted for Don Quixote's adventure with the wine skins . Sir George Head says it is meant for a satire on the Pudentilla ...
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Page 4 - ... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below"; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 661 - The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ ? For we being many are one bread, and one body : for we are all partakers of that one '.bread,
Page 177 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing ; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 705 - None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.
Page 410 - God forbid : yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Page 353 - In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 369 - God, is the only supreme governor of this realm, and of all other his Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal; and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within his Majesty's said realms, dominions and countries.
Page 427 - THE sun makes music as of old Amid the rival spheres of Heaven, On its predestined circle rolled With thunder speed : the Angels even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may ; — The world's unwithered countenance Is bright as at creation's day.
Page 261 - O come, let us sing unto the Lord ; let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation.
Page 13 - ... recurring to the examination of the idea of a Perfect Being, I found that the existence of the Being was comprised in the idea in the same way that the equality of its three angles to two right angles is comprised in the idea of a triangle...