The Quarterly review, Volume 21Murray, 1819 |
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... considered so distant , and the means by which it might be brought about so doubtful , that scarcely any one had viewed it as an event likely to happen within his own time , and had therefore never turned his attention to its practical ...
... considered so distant , and the means by which it might be brought about so doubtful , that scarcely any one had viewed it as an event likely to happen within his own time , and had therefore never turned his attention to its practical ...
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... considered as one of the least dark in the long catalogue of their accustomed crimes . ' During the thirty - five years which have elapsed since the re- cognition of their independence , the population of America has advanced from two ...
... considered as one of the least dark in the long catalogue of their accustomed crimes . ' During the thirty - five years which have elapsed since the re- cognition of their independence , the population of America has advanced from two ...
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... considered , in so serious a Christian as our author . With his permission , therefore , we will discard the latter in toto . ' Form the picture , however , ' says Mr. Gisborne , ' on either pattern , on any consistent pattern ...
... considered , in so serious a Christian as our author . With his permission , therefore , we will discard the latter in toto . ' Form the picture , however , ' says Mr. Gisborne , ' on either pattern , on any consistent pattern ...
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... considered as ' interesting transactions . ' There is something , however , in Mr. Abel's book , which has no place in those of the other two ; and there would have been more , but for the author's illness during the most interesting ...
... considered as ' interesting transactions . ' There is something , however , in Mr. Abel's book , which has no place in those of the other two ; and there would have been more , but for the author's illness during the most interesting ...
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... considered as affording sufficient grounds to account for this difference . Lord Macartney's retinue confined themselves to the direct route , and were attended with more pomp and parade of civil and military mandarins , with their ...
... considered as affording sufficient grounds to account for this difference . Lord Macartney's retinue confined themselves to the direct route , and were attended with more pomp and parade of civil and military mandarins , with their ...
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Page 50 - In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Page 61 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 54 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent yc shall all likewise perish.
Page 59 - If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Page 131 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 61 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 360 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 397 - To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here.
Page 360 - The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Page 360 - To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their Elysiums. But all this is nothing in the metaphysics of true belief.