Retrospective Review, Volumen3Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1821 |
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... hope to eradicate them , he therefore moulded them into his system ; and the hope of conciliating a considerable portion of the Jews and Christians induced him to admit , from their apocryphal books and tradi- tions , many tenets and ...
... hope to eradicate them , he therefore moulded them into his system ; and the hope of conciliating a considerable portion of the Jews and Christians induced him to admit , from their apocryphal books and tradi- tions , many tenets and ...
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... hope to become true believers , but as for you , Per- sians , it is impossible . - Wherefore , by virtue of the authority I have received from Mahomet , I pronounce it lawful for any one , of what nation soever of true believers , to ...
... hope to become true believers , but as for you , Per- sians , it is impossible . - Wherefore , by virtue of the authority I have received from Mahomet , I pronounce it lawful for any one , of what nation soever of true believers , to ...
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... hope of receiv- ing much assistance from the researches of those who have followed in the train of our enlightened countryman . Mo- dern historians run little hazard of being stiled " half Mus- sulmans , " they have not had a tythe of ...
... hope of receiv- ing much assistance from the researches of those who have followed in the train of our enlightened countryman . Mo- dern historians run little hazard of being stiled " half Mus- sulmans , " they have not had a tythe of ...
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... hope with Sismondi that a time may yet come , when she shall assume amongst the nations her own pre - eminent station . Amongst so many causes of just pride , perhaps , the highest boast of this favoured land is , that she has been the ...
... hope with Sismondi that a time may yet come , when she shall assume amongst the nations her own pre - eminent station . Amongst so many causes of just pride , perhaps , the highest boast of this favoured land is , that she has been the ...
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... hope that one will come and cut the halter . " -P . 208 . " He that impoverisheth his children to enrich his widow , destroys a quick hedge to make a dead one . " - P . 9 . We must now conclude our remarks on this book ; and we do , in ...
... hope that one will come and cut the halter . " -P . 208 . " He that impoverisheth his children to enrich his widow , destroys a quick hedge to make a dead one . " - P . 9 . We must now conclude our remarks on this book ; and we do , in ...
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Página 146 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 184 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Página 221 - Let us (said he) pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone of all his treasure Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should...
Página 142 - We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Página 142 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 217 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Página 218 - Must all be veiled, while he that reads, divines, Catching the sense at two removes? Shepherds are honest people ; let them sing : Riddle who list, for me, and pull for Prime : I envy no man's nightingale or spring ; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say,
Página 218 - WHO says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse ? Is there in truth no beauty ? Is all good structure in a winding stair...
Página 58 - ... but only a rod and a ferula. Secondly, others who are able, use it only as a passage to better preferment, to patch the rents in their present fortune, till they can provide a. new one, and betake themselves to some more gainful calling. Thirdly, they are disheartened from doing their best with the miserable reward which in some places they receive, being masters to their children and slaves to their parents.
Página 143 - But it is not good to stay too long in the theatre. Let us now pass on to the judicial place or palace of the mind, which we are to approach and view with more reverence and attention.