The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 26F. and C. Rivington, 1805 |
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... given a narrative of a fummer , which he dedicated to excurfions in the moft northern Kingdoms of Europe . His book , entitled from that circumftance , A Northern Summer , will doubtlefs furnish , to many readers , inftruction as well ...
... given a narrative of a fummer , which he dedicated to excurfions in the moft northern Kingdoms of Europe . His book , entitled from that circumftance , A Northern Summer , will doubtlefs furnish , to many readers , inftruction as well ...
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... given to fplendid vice ; we fhall not wonder at the inefficacy of thofe precepts of philofophy , which fhe was rather taught to ad- mire than to practife . If the had been fo fortunate as to have been united to a man of virtue , fhe ...
... given to fplendid vice ; we fhall not wonder at the inefficacy of thofe precepts of philofophy , which fhe was rather taught to ad- mire than to practife . If the had been fo fortunate as to have been united to a man of virtue , fhe ...
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... given , and we might have given many more of equal value , the reader will perceive what kind of moral instruction is to be derived from the Memoirs of Agrippina , the wife of Germanicus . In- struction , however , refpecting the ...
... given , and we might have given many more of equal value , the reader will perceive what kind of moral instruction is to be derived from the Memoirs of Agrippina , the wife of Germanicus . In- struction , however , refpecting the ...
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... given of his Son in this refpect ; O ! if the load of guilt has gone off your minds ! O ! if you have gone to a throne of grace , and feen the face of a tender parent ; O ! if you have ever tasted matchless mercy , and redeeming love ...
... given of his Son in this refpect ; O ! if the load of guilt has gone off your minds ! O ! if you have gone to a throne of grace , and feen the face of a tender parent ; O ! if you have ever tasted matchless mercy , and redeeming love ...
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... given , not only pointing to a duty , but to the degree in which that duty fhould be performed . What fall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me ? Why , who are you ? Relate to us your hiftory , and fay what it is that ...
... given , not only pointing to a duty , but to the degree in which that duty fhould be performed . What fall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me ? Why , who are you ? Relate to us your hiftory , and fay what it is that ...
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Page 75 - That yester-morn bloomed waving in the breeze. Sounds the most faint attract the ear, — the hum Of early bee, the trickling of the dew, The distant bleating midway up the hill.
Page 538 - ... willingly subscribed to the Articles established ; which is an argument to us that they all agree in the true, usual, literal meaning of the said Articles ; and that even in those curious points in which the present differences lie, men of all sorts take the Articles of the Church of England to be for them ; which is an argument again that none of them intend any desertion of the Articles established...
Page 155 - 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 : Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung.
Page 156 - Blindfold he knew the paths to cross ; By wily turns, by desperate bounds, Had baffled Percy's best bloodhounds ; In Eske or Liddel fords were none But he would ride them, one by one ; Alike to him was time or tide, December's snow or July's pride ; Alike to him was tide or time, Moonless midnight or matin prime : Steady of heart and stout of hand As ever drove prey from Cumberland ; Five times outlawed had he been By England's king and Scotland's queen.
Page 157 - 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 I 2.
Page 21 - By pity, well-nigh in amaze my mind Was lost ; and I began : " Bard ! willingly I would address those two together coming, Which seem so light before the wind." He thus : " Note thou, when nearer they to us approach. Then by that love which carries them along, Entreat ; and they will come.
Page 159 - Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand...
Page 616 - ... that a neutral has no right to deliver a belligerent from the pressure of his enemies' hostilities, by trading with his colonies in time of war in a way that was prohibited in time of peace.
Page 553 - I have greater witnefs than that of John : " for the works which the Father hath given me to " finifh, the fame works that I do, bear witnefs of " me, that the Father hath fent me.
Page 538 - That for the present, though some differences have been ill raised, yet we take comfort in this, that all clergymen within our realm have always most willingly subscribed to the Articles established; which is an argument to us that they all agree in the true, usual, literal meaning of the said Articles...