The Investigator (or, Quarterly magazine) [ed. by W.B. Collyer, T. Raffles and J.B. Brown]., Volume 7William Bengo' Collyer 1823 |
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... knowledge of the character of the ministers of the Church of Scotland , we can only name amongst her losses of the last year , the Rev. James Innes , of Yester , in East Lothian ; Dr. John Findlay , upwards of 40 years minister of the ...
... knowledge of the character of the ministers of the Church of Scotland , we can only name amongst her losses of the last year , the Rev. James Innes , of Yester , in East Lothian ; Dr. John Findlay , upwards of 40 years minister of the ...
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... knowledge of the learning of this world , especially of the classics , added those well- founded hopes of participating in the enjoyments of another and a better , of which the wisest and most enlightened of the philosophers and poets ...
... knowledge of the learning of this world , especially of the classics , added those well- founded hopes of participating in the enjoyments of another and a better , of which the wisest and most enlightened of the philosophers and poets ...
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... knowledge of Olympus , as if he had been professor in an English university . Admiring such productions , it is not surprising , that Shakspeare should have been considered as a beacon to warn a more intellectual age what faults they ...
... knowledge of Olympus , as if he had been professor in an English university . Admiring such productions , it is not surprising , that Shakspeare should have been considered as a beacon to warn a more intellectual age what faults they ...
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... knowledge , with such facilities for improvement , and opportunities for exer- cising their minds , as their fathers , through a hundred successions of ages , never enjoyed before them , nor could have anticipated in this place before ...
... knowledge , with such facilities for improvement , and opportunities for exer- cising their minds , as their fathers , through a hundred successions of ages , never enjoyed before them , nor could have anticipated in this place before ...
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... knowledge , I am bold to affirm that Sheffield is as classic as Egypt was in the age of Sesostris , as Greece was in the days of Homer , and as Rome was at any period between her foundation and the close of the third Punic war . I speak ...
... knowledge , I am bold to affirm that Sheffield is as classic as Egypt was in the age of Sesostris , as Greece was in the days of Homer , and as Rome was at any period between her foundation and the close of the third Punic war . I speak ...
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Page 398 - ... how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him ; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
Page 290 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Page 34 - If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die : then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten ; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
Page 308 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Page 344 - And I will set a sign among them, And I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, To Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, To Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, That have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; And they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
Page 271 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Page 49 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow ? or will he harrow the valleys after thee...
Page 283 - And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination...
Page 406 - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra...
Page 16 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...