The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 17Tobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1796 |
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Page 411 - He that cometh from above is above all ; he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth ; he that cometh from heaven is above all.
Page 271 - So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man : for the Lord fought for Israel.
Page 411 - For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
Page 429 - ... from agriculture a part of the capital which had before been employed in it, or hinders from going to it a part of what would otherwise have gone to it.
Page 89 - These are the kings that reigned in Edom before there reigned any king over the children of Israel" clearly indicates an author writing not before the times of the Kings.
Page 400 - He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world, or for the business of active life. The comprehensive speculations with which he had been occupied from his youth, and the variety of materials which his own invention continually...
Page 50 - Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without ; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Page 400 - ... them to the public eye. He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world, or for the business of active life.
Page 94 - But these are still only branches, and derive their origin and their nutriment from their common parent; they may be lopped off, and the tree is a tree still; shorn, indeed, of its honours, but not like them, cast into the fire. The kingly government may go on in all its functions, without Lords or Commons...
Page 400 - ... attracted his notice. To the defect now mentioned, it was probably owing, in part, that he did not fall in...