The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 20F. and C. Rivington, 1802 |
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... feen , but little worthy of notice . While the intended Bill for regulating the Refi- . dence of the parochial Clergy remains in fufpence , they who feel an intereft in the queftion will do well to confider with attention the facts ...
... feen , but little worthy of notice . While the intended Bill for regulating the Refi- . dence of the parochial Clergy remains in fufpence , they who feel an intereft in the queftion will do well to confider with attention the facts ...
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... feen him commence a more popular career in his Modern Hiftory of the fame regions ** . The first volume is already completed , carrying the chain of events nearly to the clofe of the fourteenth century ; that is , exactly to the point ...
... feen him commence a more popular career in his Modern Hiftory of the fame regions ** . The first volume is already completed , carrying the chain of events nearly to the clofe of the fourteenth century ; that is , exactly to the point ...
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... feen the original , and therefore may be expected to draw with truth . The Tragedy of Alfonfot has been tried on the London ftage , and not without fuccefs . The author fays , it is the best he can produce . To us it manifeftly appears ...
... feen the original , and therefore may be expected to draw with truth . The Tragedy of Alfonfot has been tried on the London ftage , and not without fuccefs . The author fays , it is the best he can produce . To us it manifeftly appears ...
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... feen a tranflation by Mr. John Addison * , which feemed by no means defpicable . Neither of thefe writers , however , have so much merit as to preclude further attempts ; especially when fuch attempts are directed rather to an expanfion ...
... feen a tranflation by Mr. John Addison * , which feemed by no means defpicable . Neither of thefe writers , however , have so much merit as to preclude further attempts ; especially when fuch attempts are directed rather to an expanfion ...
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... feen to roll ; And mortals , wearied with the day , Are flumbering all their cares away . An infant , at that dreary hour , Came weeping to my filent bower , 1 And wak'd me with a piteous prayer , ch , A To fave him from the midnight ...
... feen to roll ; And mortals , wearied with the day , Are flumbering all their cares away . An infant , at that dreary hour , Came weeping to my filent bower , 1 And wak'd me with a piteous prayer , ch , A To fave him from the midnight ...
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Page 305 - For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment ; 'but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
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Page 293 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 259 - Can gild the horrors of the gloom. But bitter, bitter are the tears Of her who slighted love bewails ; No hope her dreary prospect cheers, No pleasing melancholy hails.
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