The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 37F. and C. Rivington, 1811 |
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... produces long delay , is likely , in a periodical work , to produce entire omiffion ; fince new objects are continually arifing , with more urgent demands , and more intereft attached to them in the eye of the public , than belongs to ...
... produces long delay , is likely , in a periodical work , to produce entire omiffion ; fince new objects are continually arifing , with more urgent demands , and more intereft attached to them in the eye of the public , than belongs to ...
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... produced in any fcience . The other , which was first published , has the fame general character- istics , but being more extensive in detail and experi- ments , is calculated rather for the more advanced stu- dent . Very much of this ...
... produced in any fcience . The other , which was first published , has the fame general character- istics , but being more extensive in detail and experi- ments , is calculated rather for the more advanced stu- dent . Very much of this ...
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... produced an instructive , though not an extenfive volume . Lord Elgin's thin volume on his Purfuits in Greece offers little more than a narrative of the means employed by him to obtain his noble collection of Greek sculpture now in ...
... produced an instructive , though not an extenfive volume . Lord Elgin's thin volume on his Purfuits in Greece offers little more than a narrative of the means employed by him to obtain his noble collection of Greek sculpture now in ...
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... produced : The Goblin Groom , by Mr. Fenwick , a jeu d'efprit above the common clafs ; and the Affociate Minstrels §§ , an anonymous collection of fmall poems , but marked with talent and poetical feeling fufficient to diftinguish every ...
... produced : The Goblin Groom , by Mr. Fenwick , a jeu d'efprit above the common clafs ; and the Affociate Minstrels §§ , an anonymous collection of fmall poems , but marked with talent and poetical feeling fufficient to diftinguish every ...
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... produce either a biography or a hiftory ; his whole aim evidently has been , to make a book . Such a mixed production , in another refpect , most in- judicious , in an author who has not his temper under the most perfect perfect ...
... produce either a biography or a hiftory ; his whole aim evidently has been , to make a book . Such a mixed production , in another refpect , most in- judicious , in an author who has not his temper under the most perfect perfect ...
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Page 257 - THEREFORE with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name ; evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory : Glory be to thee, O Lord most High.
Page 50 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Page 260 - HEAR this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Page 349 - Without teaching him the peculiar business of any one office or calling, it enables him to act his part in each of them with better grace and more elevated carriage ; and, if happily planned and conducted, is a main ingredient in that complete and generous education which fits a man ' to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 242 - Who seek the prouder Pleasures of the Mind: The Soul, collected in those happy hours, Then makes her efforts, then enjoys her powers; And in those seasons feels herself repaid, For Labours past and Honours long delay'd.
Page 235 - tis pleasant to impart, These turns and movements of the human Heart; The stronger features of the Soul to paint, And make distinct the latent and the faint; Man as he is, to place in all men's view, Yet none with rancour, none with scorn pursue: Nor be it ever of my Portraits told — "Here the strong lines of Malice we behold.
Page 73 - THE Roman Catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland : or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles...
Page 274 - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghoft : and thefe three are one. And there are three that bear witnefs in earth, the fpirit, and the water, and the blood: and thefe three agree in one.
Page 322 - There is a lad here, who hath five barley loaves, and two fishes: but what are these among so many?
Page 349 - ... unmixed with those narrow prejudices with which all professions are more or less infected. The knowledge too, which is thus acquired, expands and enlarges the mind, excites its faculties, and calls those limbs and muscles into freer exercise, which, by too constant use in one direction, not only acquire an illiberal air, but are apt also to lose somewhat of their native play and energy.