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... volume shows , of great development . They were intended , as the Archbishop remarks , and as the word essay in its original acceptation ex- presses , to be tentamina , not finished treatises , but sketches , to be filled up by the ...
... volume shows , of great development . They were intended , as the Archbishop remarks , and as the word essay in its original acceptation ex- presses , to be tentamina , not finished treatises , but sketches , to be filled up by the ...
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... volumes have been compiled of , and therefore cannot receive a brief redargu- tion . I , for my part , do confess that , in revolving the Scriptures , I could never find any such thing ; but that God had left the like liberty to the ...
... volumes have been compiled of , and therefore cannot receive a brief redargu- tion . I , for my part , do confess that , in revolving the Scriptures , I could never find any such thing ; but that God had left the like liberty to the ...
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... volume . It is , as we have already remarked , a work of which it is impossible to give an outline , or a compre- hensive view . We must refer the reader to the original : it cannot be read by deputy . It is of " the few books that are ...
... volume . It is , as we have already remarked , a work of which it is impossible to give an outline , or a compre- hensive view . We must refer the reader to the original : it cannot be read by deputy . It is of " the few books that are ...
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Characteristics . 31 Since the publication of the first of these volumes a century and a half have passed away , and only twelve years fewer since the publication of the second ; yet nothing has appeared to dim their lustre as yet ...
Characteristics . 31 Since the publication of the first of these volumes a century and a half have passed away , and only twelve years fewer since the publication of the second ; yet nothing has appeared to dim their lustre as yet ...
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... volume , have breathed out their latest prayer . When Daniel Webster lay dying , almost the last employment of that oracular voice , which had so often thrilled the senate , and given the signal of action to his country , was to repeat ...
... volume , have breathed out their latest prayer . When Daniel Webster lay dying , almost the last employment of that oracular voice , which had so often thrilled the senate , and given the signal of action to his country , was to repeat ...
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Página 36 - COME, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 ' ' Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, "To be exalted thus!
Página 17 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Página 35 - My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand, And there confess my sin. 4 My soul looks back to see The burdens thou didst bear, When hanging on th' accursed tree ; And hopes her guilt was there.
Página 193 - O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Página 34 - My God, the spring of all my joys, The life of my delights, The glory of my brightest days, And comfort of my nights.
Página 18 - ... 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 323 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Página 524 - If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians : for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Página 35 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God; All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
Página 28 - The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament," which he hoped would escape some of the objections urged against his Hymns.