The Southern Review, Volume 4A. E. Miller., 1829 |
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... increasing ignorance , and propensity to ridicule the discoveries of philosophers : on the knowledge of the ancients of the properties of the magnet : on the many indications of that knowledge , as in the Book of Job : the magnet six ...
... increasing ignorance , and propensity to ridicule the discoveries of philosophers : on the knowledge of the ancients of the properties of the magnet : on the many indications of that knowledge , as in the Book of Job : the magnet six ...
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... increase of the parent alphabet to 22 , and therefore anterior to the Pentateuch , and therefore anterior to fifteen hundred years , A. C. As all this plausible reasoning depends on the date ascribed to our modern editions of the ...
... increase of the parent alphabet to 22 , and therefore anterior to the Pentateuch , and therefore anterior to fifteen hundred years , A. C. As all this plausible reasoning depends on the date ascribed to our modern editions of the ...
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... increasing respectability of that institution , but of similar ones subsequently formed in al- most all the large cities of the Union . Without pretending to know what have been the real causes of the superiority of art in any ...
... increasing respectability of that institution , but of similar ones subsequently formed in al- most all the large cities of the Union . Without pretending to know what have been the real causes of the superiority of art in any ...
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... increasing number of artists , and their general im- provement . Talent is not narrowed down now as formerly , to the single walk of portrait . It looks for patronage to a higher motive than mere vanity and self - love . It looks to a ...
... increasing number of artists , and their general im- provement . Talent is not narrowed down now as formerly , to the single walk of portrait . It looks for patronage to a higher motive than mere vanity and self - love . It looks to a ...
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... increase their income , by giving private instruction to those children whose parents desire it . " The boys usually enter these institutions from nine to thirteen years of age , and remain from five to seven years , in proportion to ...
... increase their income , by giving private instruction to those children whose parents desire it . " The boys usually enter these institutions from nine to thirteen years of age , and remain from five to seven years , in proportion to ...
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Page 156 - ... her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all ,with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 160 - ... outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.
Page 463 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 456 - Art thou called being a servant '( care not for it : but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
Page 257 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 321 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased, but all The multitude of angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy...
Page 332 - ... though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to but with the prophet, "O earth, earth, earth!
Page 457 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 213 - Hunter's pithy remark is quoted, "some physiologists will have it, that the stomach is a mill, others, that it is a fermenting vat, others, again, that it is a stew-pan; but, in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat nor a stew-pan ; but a stomach, gentlemen, a stomach.
Page 355 - It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness; for besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons.