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... interesting , the necessity of a complete and satisfactory elucidation may be truly estimated by the difficulty of producing it . Numer- ous translators , and commentators , therefore , with different degrees of learning and judgement ...
... interesting , the necessity of a complete and satisfactory elucidation may be truly estimated by the difficulty of producing it . Numer- ous translators , and commentators , therefore , with different degrees of learning and judgement ...
Page 568
... interesting , though it appear more than twenty years after his death . But we greatly admire the modesty with which Lord Woodhouselee , better known to the literary world under the name of Mr. Fraser Tytler , has been waiting , during ...
... interesting , though it appear more than twenty years after his death . But we greatly admire the modesty with which Lord Woodhouselee , better known to the literary world under the name of Mr. Fraser Tytler , has been waiting , during ...
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... interesting subject . But if instead of this he were to tell us , ( perhaps on having found another drawer - full of materials ) that another volume was necessary for giving right proportions and a right conclusion to his work , we ...
... interesting subject . But if instead of this he were to tell us , ( perhaps on having found another drawer - full of materials ) that another volume was necessary for giving right proportions and a right conclusion to his work , we ...
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... interesting description of his manner of pleading . Mr. Home's manner as a barrister was peculiar to himself . He never attempted to speak to the passions , or to captivate his hearers by the graces of oratory ; but addressing himself ...
... interesting description of his manner of pleading . Mr. Home's manner as a barrister was peculiar to himself . He never attempted to speak to the passions , or to captivate his hearers by the graces of oratory ; but addressing himself ...
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... interesting part of this work is that which he owes to the burin ; the subjects for the plates are judiciously chosen ; and we must do him the justice to ac- knowledge that he has taken great pains to connect and ely cidate these ...
... interesting part of this work is that which he owes to the burin ; the subjects for the plates are judiciously chosen ; and we must do him the justice to ac- knowledge that he has taken great pains to connect and ely cidate these ...
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Page 804 - If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
Page 632 - Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me...
Page 756 - ... time, advancing with their cross-bows presented, and began to shoot. The English archers then advanced one step forward, and shot their arrows with such force and quickness, that it seemed as if it snowed. When the Genoese felt these arrows, which pierced their arms, heads, and through their...
Page 708 - Proud names, who once the reins of empire held ; In arms who triumph'd, or in arts excell'd ; Chiefs, grac'd with scars, and prodigal of blood; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints who taught, and led, the way to Heaven...
Page 970 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 1040 - With less external majesty it was attended, but is, on that account, the more wonderful, that under an appearance so simple, such great events were covered.' There is also a perpetual recurrence of a form of the sentence, which might be occasionally graceful, or tolerable, when very sparingly adopted, but is extremely unpleasing when it comes often; we mean that construction in which the quality or condition of the agent or subject, is expressed first, and the agent or subject ifself is put to bring...
Page 1021 - We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings.
Page 865 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
Page 756 - During this time a heavy rain fell, accompanied by thunder and a very terrible eclipse of the sun; and before this rain a great flight of crows hovered in the air over all those battalions, making a loud noise. Shortly afterwards it cleared up, and the sun shone very bright; but the Frenchmen had it in their faces, and the English in their backs.
Page 756 - English, who were drawn up in three divisions, and seated on the ground, on seeing their enemies advance, rose undauntedly up, and fell into their ranks. That of the Prince was the first to do so, whose archers were formed in the manner of a portcullis, or harrow, and the men-at-arms in the rear.