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... appears to be defective in address , and in the talent of persuasion , while it abounds in a species of invective that produces revolt and reaction in the hearer , and falls very short of that tone of sentiment and pathos of expresion ...
... appears to be defective in address , and in the talent of persuasion , while it abounds in a species of invective that produces revolt and reaction in the hearer , and falls very short of that tone of sentiment and pathos of expresion ...
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... words so beauti- ful in the place from which they are borrowed , and borrowed much at random , appear to us most unsuitably arranged with the context into which they are forced ; and we will 16 The King , the Queen , and the Country .
... words so beauti- ful in the place from which they are borrowed , and borrowed much at random , appear to us most unsuitably arranged with the context into which they are forced ; and we will 16 The King , the Queen , and the Country .
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... appears to us to be peculiarly able . He sharpens his steel at the forge of the Philistines , and makes them furnish the means of their own discomfiture . The passages in the speeches for the defence , which we have alluded to in terms ...
... appears to us to be peculiarly able . He sharpens his steel at the forge of the Philistines , and makes them furnish the means of their own discomfiture . The passages in the speeches for the defence , which we have alluded to in terms ...
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... appears to this House to have been ill - advised and inexpedient , " was a motion in spirit and import miserably below the tone of the petitions to the House , and the general expectation excited by the challenges of her Majesty's ...
... appears to this House to have been ill - advised and inexpedient , " was a motion in spirit and import miserably below the tone of the petitions to the House , and the general expectation excited by the challenges of her Majesty's ...
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... appears to us to put many things well , fairly , and moderately . " I proceed now to the offer of an ample allowance ... appear to have emanated more immediately from my own personal feelings . " I have previously remarked , that from ...
... appears to us to put many things well , fairly , and moderately . " I proceed now to the offer of an ample allowance ... appear to have emanated more immediately from my own personal feelings . " I have previously remarked , that from ...
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Page 436 - And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us ; and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Page 435 - Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Page 245 - I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again.
Page 382 - The person who would treat such a subject must increase the ideal, and diminish the actual horror of the events, so that the pleasure which arises from the poetry which exists in these tempestuous sufferings and crimes may mitigate the pain of the contemplation of the moral deformity from which they spring.
Page 146 - Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus ; who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God ; but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man : and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross.
Page 185 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own : but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 387 - Pah ! I am choked ! There creeps A clinging, black, contaminating mist About me — 'tis substantial, heavy, thick ; I cannot pluck it from me, for it glues My fingers and my limbs to one another, And eats into my sinews, and dissolves My flesh to a pollution, poisoning The subtle, pure, and inmost spirit of life ! My God ! I never knew what the mad felt Before ; for I am mad beyond all doubt ! [Afore wildly.
Page 185 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 499 - Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the respective laws and customs of the same ? Sovereign. I solemnly promise so to do.
Page 211 - ... it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.