The Monthly Magazine, Volume 3

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R. Phillips, 1797

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Page 25 - PREVENT us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help ; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 25 - ... shall take up serpents ; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them ; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Page 275 - Relentless walls ! whose darksome round contains Repentant sighs, and voluntary pains : Ye rugged rocks, which holy knees have worn ; Ye grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid thorn...
Page 439 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 18 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Page 235 - I was fortunate in getting in with the enemy's fleet at half past eleven o'clock, before it had time to connect, and form a regular order of battle. Such a moment was not to be lost...
Page 265 - An Appendix to the Observations in defence of the Liberty of Man, as a moral agent, &c." 1780, 8vo. The controversy terminated with " A second Letter to the rev. John Palmer," by Dr. Priestley. 5. " A summary view of the grounds of Christian Baptism ; with a more particular reference to the baptism of infants ; containing remarks, argumentative and critical, in explanation and defence of the rite.
Page 26 - THE Almighty Lord, who is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in him, to whom all things in heaven, in earth, and under the earth, do bow and obey, be now and evermore...
Page 375 - Sofpello that he fitft developed his military talents ; and it was entirely owing to him, that Saorgio, in the campaign of 1794, yielded to the Republican arms. For this fervice he was rewarded with the rank of General of Divifion, No fooner was Buonaparte appointed to the command of the army of Italy, than the local knowledge, intrepidity, and experience of Maflena, pointed him out as an able officer, capable of feconding his views, and advancing his progrefs.
Page 309 - Governor should represent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer — That they cannot look upon the scheme of assisting the Emperor to raise a Loan in Germany by the guarantee of the Parliament of Great Britain in any light which will not one way or other be detrimental to this Country ; even if a Law were passed by Parliament to prevent British subjects from taking any share therein.

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