The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1851 |
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... society ; for if one of them is a desperate character , he finds little difficulty in forming a band , which easily grows into a gang of high- waymen . They seldom carry on their mischief for any long time , as even the extensive ...
... society ; for if one of them is a desperate character , he finds little difficulty in forming a band , which easily grows into a gang of high- waymen . They seldom carry on their mischief for any long time , as even the extensive ...
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... society in which Martinovitch , the Abbot of Sasvár , and several of the nobility , as well as some young students and lawyers , were engaged . We are brought into the family of Dr. Kovatch , where we find his daughter , Lenke , and a ...
... society in which Martinovitch , the Abbot of Sasvár , and several of the nobility , as well as some young students and lawyers , were engaged . We are brought into the family of Dr. Kovatch , where we find his daughter , Lenke , and a ...
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... society , and among individuals of the most eccentric character , his reminiscences are of a highly amusing nature . Without being , as the title implies , strictly literary , they are sufficiently agreeable and allied , through himself ...
... society , and among individuals of the most eccentric character , his reminiscences are of a highly amusing nature . Without being , as the title implies , strictly literary , they are sufficiently agreeable and allied , through himself ...
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... society of men whose names are as familiar to us as household words . ' Perhaps he does not tell us much about each ; but then he presents us with lively gossip about all - gives us letters of some , little traits of others - all ...
... society of men whose names are as familiar to us as household words . ' Perhaps he does not tell us much about each ; but then he presents us with lively gossip about all - gives us letters of some , little traits of others - all ...
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... society . They read an author , study his peculiarities and style , and imagine they per- fectly understand his whole system of thought , and could detect one mistake instantly . But to show that even authors them- selves are not always ...
... society . They read an author , study his peculiarities and style , and imagine they per- fectly understand his whole system of thought , and could detect one mistake instantly . But to show that even authors them- selves are not always ...
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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...