The Critical Review: Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1805 - English literature |
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... common people were idolaters , and that at certain times it was the custom of all ranks to pay religious reverence to their de- ceased ancestors ; that the mandarins were supposed to be atheists ( and to their real sentiments we have no ...
... common people were idolaters , and that at certain times it was the custom of all ranks to pay religious reverence to their de- ceased ancestors ; that the mandarins were supposed to be atheists ( and to their real sentiments we have no ...
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... common : a remark- able degree of attention is paid by the laws to the life of an individual , who cannot be executed without an exami- nation of his case by the high tribunal at Pekin ; yet an in- difference prevails with respect to ...
... common : a remark- able degree of attention is paid by the laws to the life of an individual , who cannot be executed without an exami- nation of his case by the high tribunal at Pekin ; yet an in- difference prevails with respect to ...
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... common with that of man , has not been equally improved , nor has the practica- bility of augmenting the fecundity of grasses and corn been . sufficiently understood . It cannot , we think , be too earnestly inculcated , that we are yet ...
... common with that of man , has not been equally improved , nor has the practica- bility of augmenting the fecundity of grasses and corn been . sufficiently understood . It cannot , we think , be too earnestly inculcated , that we are yet ...
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... common earth : in other words , it serves the purpose of the stomach in digesting and assimila- ting the aliments of the plant to their proper vessels and juices . If this be the fact , any diminution of the earthy mat- ter must be ...
... common earth : in other words , it serves the purpose of the stomach in digesting and assimila- ting the aliments of the plant to their proper vessels and juices . If this be the fact , any diminution of the earthy mat- ter must be ...
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... the following words of Longinus : Ἡ τῶν λόγων κρίσις πολλῆς ἐστι πείρας τελευταῖον ἐπιγέννημα . This author is frequently guilty of that violation of English idiom , so common in the north of England , Linn's Powers of Genius . 31.
... the following words of Longinus : Ἡ τῶν λόγων κρίσις πολλῆς ἐστι πείρας τελευταῖον ἐπιγέννημα . This author is frequently guilty of that violation of English idiom , so common in the north of England , Linn's Powers of Genius . 31.
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Page 47 - Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say ? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods : because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Page 231 - And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair !...
Page 50 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Page 231 - If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey.
Page 228 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot; Cold diffidence and age's frost In the full tide of song were lost...
Page 162 - God but by new birth, nor according to the manifest ordinary course of divine dispensation newborn, but by that baptism which both declareth and maketh us Christians. In which respect we justly hold it to be the door of our actual entrance into God's house, the first apparent beginning of life, a seal perhaps to the grace of Election, before received, but to our sanctification here a step that hath not any before it.
Page 382 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. 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.
Page 48 - Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 45 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure...
Page 141 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...