The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1845 |
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... English tongue . I cannot , indeed , deny , the grief and vexation I am myself almost every hour experiencing - that whatever genius one is possessed of is thus in a manner kept down and shackled ; that invention is dulled ; that the ...
... English tongue . I cannot , indeed , deny , the grief and vexation I am myself almost every hour experiencing - that whatever genius one is possessed of is thus in a manner kept down and shackled ; that invention is dulled ; that the ...
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... English criticism , if Mr. Keble , for instance , had published in his own tongue discourses on the subject of poetry , conceived with the same regard to ' ancient truthfulness and simplicity , ' which he has propounded to himself as ...
... English criticism , if Mr. Keble , for instance , had published in his own tongue discourses on the subject of poetry , conceived with the same regard to ' ancient truthfulness and simplicity , ' which he has propounded to himself as ...
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... English , is far purer , has far more of the features of its Saxon ancestry , and has not mixed up with its vocabulary so many foreign terms from Norman - French and Latin . It ap- proximates in sound and meaning the most classic of ...
... English , is far purer , has far more of the features of its Saxon ancestry , and has not mixed up with its vocabulary so many foreign terms from Norman - French and Latin . It ap- proximates in sound and meaning the most classic of ...
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... English and Welsh counties . Another deduction might , however , be made of , perhaps , one tenth , for the tenants of those landlords who either do not influence their tenants , or who are opposed to the corn monopoly ; so that the net ...
... English and Welsh counties . Another deduction might , however , be made of , perhaps , one tenth , for the tenants of those landlords who either do not influence their tenants , or who are opposed to the corn monopoly ; so that the net ...
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... English and Welsh counties . The field which opens to the patriotic citizen , wherever his residence , thus to counteract the chica- nery and oppression of an unscrupulous oligarchy , is inviting and accessible to multitudes , who may ...
... English and Welsh counties . The field which opens to the patriotic citizen , wherever his residence , thus to counteract the chica- nery and oppression of an unscrupulous oligarchy , is inviting and accessible to multitudes , who may ...
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Page 10 - And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Page 315 - Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
Page 525 - Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of Bread and Wine) in the Supper of the Lord cannot be proved by Holy Writ ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions.
Page 291 - Scriptures contain all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 681 - Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Page 639 - Macedonia ; how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Page 22 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 278 - The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills : They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Page 297 - Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind...
Page 34 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.