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... writers of most of the poems which appear on public occasions , -ode , elegy , or sonnet , -betray an utter ignorance of the nature and purpose of poetry . The occasion on which they write , has evidently set their ideas in motion 2 ...
... writers of most of the poems which appear on public occasions , -ode , elegy , or sonnet , -betray an utter ignorance of the nature and purpose of poetry . The occasion on which they write , has evidently set their ideas in motion 2 ...
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... writer impresses us more strongly with the conviction that the opinions he avows , are bis genuine sentiments , and the warmth he discovers is unaffected earnestness ; and this conviction , even where we do not think and feel in unison ...
... writer impresses us more strongly with the conviction that the opinions he avows , are bis genuine sentiments , and the warmth he discovers is unaffected earnestness ; and this conviction , even where we do not think and feel in unison ...
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... writer is , beforehand , quite certain of his materials ; they are ready , in full existence and abundance in his papers ; they are ab- solutely his own ; and he knows that a large proportion are such as inevitably will and must be ...
... writer is , beforehand , quite certain of his materials ; they are ready , in full existence and abundance in his papers ; they are ab- solutely his own ; and he knows that a large proportion are such as inevitably will and must be ...
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... writers , who , on the testimony of con- verted heathens , bave declared it to typify life to come : " this he thinks may be admitted as its abstracted or symbolical meaning ; his opinion of its immediate signification he has not done ...
... writers , who , on the testimony of con- verted heathens , bave declared it to typify life to come : " this he thinks may be admitted as its abstracted or symbolical meaning ; his opinion of its immediate signification he has not done ...
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... writer . He is the advocate of a noble cause ; and though not the first who has volunteered his services to repel the charges which have been brought against a slandered and persecuted people , he is by no means the least able pleader ...
... writer . He is the advocate of a noble cause ; and though not the first who has volunteered his services to repel the charges which have been brought against a slandered and persecuted people , he is by no means the least able pleader ...
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Page 412 - Will you be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word...
Page 172 - IT is certain by God's word, that children which are baptized, dying before they commit actual sin, are undoubtedly saved.
Page 533 - And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 588 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 410 - City, and holding a pure faith in the unity of the Spirit and in the bond of peace...
Page 381 - Nor aught else in the liquid mirror laves Its portraiture, but some inconstant star Between one foliaged lattice twinkling fair, Or, painted bird, sleeping beneath the moon, Or gorgeous insect floating motionless, Unconscious of the day, ere yet his wings Have spread their glories to the gaze of noon.
Page 387 - Die, he or justice must; unless for him Some other, able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction ; death for death.
Page 534 - And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Page 359 - For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Page 45 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.