The Monthly ReviewHurst, Robinson, 1831 |
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... never embarrassed for an answer , which is given with an acuteness that sometimes surprises a stranger . Indeed , when perfectly sober , they have little of the savage about them beyond the name and the costume . When a traveller is ...
... never embarrassed for an answer , which is given with an acuteness that sometimes surprises a stranger . Indeed , when perfectly sober , they have little of the savage about them beyond the name and the costume . When a traveller is ...
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... never directed his disciples to go and distribute the Bible all over the world . His command to them was " to teach all nations " -to teach them the truths which He came to promulgate , and not to leave them to the mere guidance of the ...
... never directed his disciples to go and distribute the Bible all over the world . His command to them was " to teach all nations " -to teach them the truths which He came to promulgate , and not to leave them to the mere guidance of the ...
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... never been written ! Would it not have been infinitely better if those 15007. had been given to an hospital ? The vulgate was the only version of the scriptures in use in this country at the time of the reformation . Our first reformers ...
... never been written ! Would it not have been infinitely better if those 15007. had been given to an hospital ? The vulgate was the only version of the scriptures in use in this country at the time of the reformation . Our first reformers ...
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... never bloom again ! ' - pp . 61-63 . And now we ask if the reader be not satisfied , that Mr. Kennedy is the very first , or amongst the first poets of our time ? Is not there good muscle in these lines ? Does not Mr. Kennedy strike an ...
... never bloom again ! ' - pp . 61-63 . And now we ask if the reader be not satisfied , that Mr. Kennedy is the very first , or amongst the first poets of our time ? Is not there good muscle in these lines ? Does not Mr. Kennedy strike an ...
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... never seen him at the wing of the theatre , and thrown their eyes , as he must have done , to the private boxes . Mrs. Jordan was not a woman to hoodwink herself in any of her actions -- she knew the sanctions of law and religion as ...
... never seen him at the wing of the theatre , and thrown their eyes , as he must have done , to the private boxes . Mrs. Jordan was not a woman to hoodwink herself in any of her actions -- she knew the sanctions of law and religion as ...
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Page 15 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 13 - Let there be light : and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness.
Page 15 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 524 - Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displaced.
Page 227 - With regard to poetry in general, I am convinced, the more I think of it, that he and all of us — Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Moore, Campbell, I, — are all in the wrong, one as much as another; that we are upon a wrong revolutionary poetical system, or systems, not worth a damn in itself, and from which none but Rogers and Crabbe are free; and that the ? resent and next generations will finally be of this opinion...
Page 221 - Heard the avalanches falling every five minutes nearly. From whence we stood, on the Wengen Alp, we had all these in view on one side; on the other, the clouds rose from the opposite valley, curling up perpendicular precipices like the foam of the ocean of hell, during a spring tide — it was white, and sulphury, and immeasurably deep in appearance.
Page 426 - Early reformations are amicable arrangements with a friend in power ; late reformations are terms imposed upon a conquered enemy : early reformations are made in cool blood ; late reformations are made under a state of inflammation.
Page 221 - Passed whole woods of withered pines, all withered ; trunks stripped and barkless, branches lifeless ; done by a single winter, — their appearance reminded me of me and my family.
Page 14 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 590 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.