The Quarterly Review, Volume 24William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1821 |
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... thought to have greatly contributed . The world became familiar with him and his ways ; the one side learned to respect him more , and the other to worship him less , than if he had passed a shorter time among them : and , while the ...
... thought to have greatly contributed . The world became familiar with him and his ways ; the one side learned to respect him more , and the other to worship him less , than if he had passed a shorter time among them : and , while the ...
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... thought that a fire which consumed their father's parsonage , and from which John , when very young , escaped by a kind of miracle , had some tendency to make the child , so strangely saved , a greater favourite than the others , and to ...
... thought that a fire which consumed their father's parsonage , and from which John , when very young , escaped by a kind of miracle , had some tendency to make the child , so strangely saved , a greater favourite than the others , and to ...
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... thought fit to repel her from the communion , till she should openly declare her- self to have repented of certain faults which , without publicly stating them , he professed to have observed in her conduct . This unusual procedure set ...
... thought fit to repel her from the communion , till she should openly declare her- self to have repented of certain faults which , without publicly stating them , he professed to have observed in her conduct . This unusual procedure set ...
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... thought about it , but quietly to go on in the work of the Lord . ' But his nerves were not in a fit state to be governed by his better reason : he compared his present uneasiness with the tranquillity of the Moravians , and ...
... thought about it , but quietly to go on in the work of the Lord . ' But his nerves were not in a fit state to be governed by his better reason : he compared his present uneasiness with the tranquillity of the Moravians , and ...
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... a doubt- ful and disputable nature . ' The point was , in fact , abandoned by the founder of methodism in his old age , when he confessed that he he had not for many years , thought a consciousness 22 Southey's Life of Wesley .
... a doubt- ful and disputable nature . ' The point was , in fact , abandoned by the founder of methodism in his old age , when he confessed that he he had not for many years , thought a consciousness 22 Southey's Life of Wesley .
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Page 42 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him,
Page 42 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 473 - His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Page 497 - The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Page 42 - Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
Page 368 - Captain Wentworth had no fortune. He had been lucky in his profession ; but spending freely what had come freely, had realized nothing. But he was confident that he should soon be rich: full of life and ardour, he knew that he should soon have a ship, and soon be on a station that would lead to everything he wanted. He had always been lucky; he knew he should be so still.
Page 299 - God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 361 - I did not know a great deal that she has not the least notion of yet. How long ago it is, aunt, since we used to repeat the chronological order of the kings of England, with the dates of their accession, and most of the principal events of their reigns ! ' ' Yes,' added the other ; ' and of the Roman emperors as low as Severus ; besides a great deal of the heathen mythology, and all the metals, semi-metals, planets, and distinguished philosophers.
Page 512 - ... the sky. At first agglomerated in a single confused mass, the lesser parts of this immense whole seemed, as we advanced, by degrees to unfold, to disengage themselves from each other, and to grow into various groups, divided by wide chasms and deep indentures, — until at last the...
Page 342 - O night and shades, How are ye joined with hell in triple knot Against the unarmed weakness of one virgin, Alone and helpless! Is this the confidence You gave me, brother? ELD. BRO. Yes, and keep it still; Lean on it safely; not a period Shall be unsaid for me.