British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 25F. and C. Rivington, 1805 |
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Page iv
... contains principally a ftrenuous defence of Epifcopacy , against the pofthumous at- tacks of the late Profeffor George Campbell , of Aberdeen . With fome few inequalities it is , on the whole , a valuable and inftructive book . The ...
... contains principally a ftrenuous defence of Epifcopacy , against the pofthumous at- tacks of the late Profeffor George Campbell , of Aberdeen . With fome few inequalities it is , on the whole , a valuable and inftructive book . The ...
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... contains much that is instructive and valuable . The Afiatic Refearches , belong alfo to this clafs , the Society being profeffedly inftituted , to enquire into the History , Antiquities , & c . of Afia . The fixth volume of this work ...
... contains much that is instructive and valuable . The Afiatic Refearches , belong alfo to this clafs , the Society being profeffedly inftituted , to enquire into the History , Antiquities , & c . of Afia . The fixth volume of this work ...
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... contains no biography at all ; but fimply an addi- tional collection of Letters . It contains indeed what is much better than biography , except fuch as flows from the pen of a Johnfon , a very interefting and characteristic fucceffion ...
... contains no biography at all ; but fimply an addi- tional collection of Letters . It contains indeed what is much better than biography , except fuch as flows from the pen of a Johnfon , a very interefting and characteristic fucceffion ...
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... contain therefore the effufions of a genuine friendship . Having read them throughout with great delight , we feel that our difficulty will be to reftrain ourselves within any moderate bounds of citation , fo much do they contain , that ...
... contain therefore the effufions of a genuine friendship . Having read them throughout with great delight , we feel that our difficulty will be to reftrain ourselves within any moderate bounds of citation , fo much do they contain , that ...
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... contains only fix lines . This volume appears to have been printed in the country ; but as , for that very reafon , it was immediately under the in- fpection of the editor , it ought to have been much more free than it is from very ...
... contains only fix lines . This volume appears to have been printed in the country ; but as , for that very reafon , it was immediately under the in- fpection of the editor , it ought to have been much more free than it is from very ...
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Page 567 - And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 12 - I love the memory of Vinny Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him.
Page 254 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Page 51 - Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it they fell on their faces and they said, "The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.
Page 592 - They also are to be had accursed that presume to say, That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of Nature. For holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Page 618 - that font me to baptize with water, the " fame faid unto me, Upon whom thou...
Page 11 - ... or nothing happens to occur. A man that has a journey before him twenty miles in length, which he is to perform on foot, will not hesitate and doubt whether he shall set out or not, because he does not readily conceive how he shall ever reach the end of it : for he knows, that by the simple operation of moving one foot forward first, and then the other, he shall be sure to accomplish it.
Page 83 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Page 10 - The liveliness of the description, the sweetness of the numbers, the classical spirit of antiquity that prevails in it, go for nothing. I am convinced by the way, that he has no ear for poetical numbers, or that it was stopped by prejudice against the harmony of Milton's. Was there ever any thing so delightful as the music of the Paradise Lost?
Page 322 - Jourdain. Par ma foi, il ya plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose, sans que j'en susse rien; et je vous suis le plus obligé du monde de m'avoir appris cela.