The Retrospective Review, Volumen3Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1821 |
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... thoughts , or even of his system , as origi- nally promulgated . No one can fix , with much precision , either its date or author . It is still doubtful whether a considerable por- tion , at least , was not the work of a Christian or ...
... thoughts , or even of his system , as origi- nally promulgated . No one can fix , with much precision , either its date or author . It is still doubtful whether a considerable por- tion , at least , was not the work of a Christian or ...
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... thought , could not fail to capti- vate and stimulate to emulation ? What part of the Old Testament history is more calculated to affect and interest the best feelings of the heart , than the history of Joseph , as there narrated ? -the ...
... thought , could not fail to capti- vate and stimulate to emulation ? What part of the Old Testament history is more calculated to affect and interest the best feelings of the heart , than the history of Joseph , as there narrated ? -the ...
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... thought proper to adopt the same plan . - This volume , however , we assure our readers , is of a most amusing description , and indicative of great reading and acquirements , for the age at which it was written . - It is full of the ...
... thought proper to adopt the same plan . - This volume , however , we assure our readers , is of a most amusing description , and indicative of great reading and acquirements , for the age at which it was written . - It is full of the ...
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... thought that our readers will be amused with some of the worthy doctor's descriptions , from which they will find that the French are much the same people now as they were two centu- ries ago . We will , in the first place , extract the ...
... thought that our readers will be amused with some of the worthy doctor's descriptions , from which they will find that the French are much the same people now as they were two centu- ries ago . We will , in the first place , extract the ...
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... thought it expedient still farther to manifest his opinions in favour of his own nation . Our author is much more severe on the French women . " I am now come to the French women ; and it were great pitty they should not immediately ...
... thought it expedient still farther to manifest his opinions in favour of his own nation . Our author is much more severe on the French women . " I am now come to the French women ; and it were great pitty they should not immediately ...
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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 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 - 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 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.
Página 148 - But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth ; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrated, and accommodated for use and practice ; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.
Página 146 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...
Página 220 - I did ; and going did a rainbow note : Surely, thought I, This is the lace of Peace's coat : I will search out the matter.