The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature

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W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1797
Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue."
 

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Página 51 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Página 373 - He was clad in plain, dark silk, with a velvet bonnet, in form not much different from the bonnet of Scotch Highlanders : on the front of it was placed a large pearl, which was the only jewel or ornament he appeared to have about him.
Página 51 - Fairy Queen ; in which he very early took delight to read, till, by feeling the charms of verse, he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents, which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called Genius.
Página 318 - God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we were yet finners, Chrift died for us.
Página 368 - The temples are, however, always open for such as choose to consult the decrees of heaven. They return thanks when the oracle proves propitious to their wishes. Yet they oftener cast lots, to know the issue of a projected enterprize, than supplicate for its being favourable ; and their worship consists more in thanksgiving than in prayer.
Página 392 - Of mountain lineage sweep into the main ; From bays, where Commerce furls her wearied sails, Proud to have dar'd the dangers of the deep, And floats at anchor'd...
Página 318 - God ; being juftified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jefus Chrift: whom God hath fet forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteoufnefs for the remiffion of fins that are paft, through the forbearance of God...
Página 419 - ... gentle zephyr ever played, nor even the lightning could rend a passage. It was a place of blood and horror, abounding with altars reeking with the gore of human victims, by which all the trunks of the lofty and eternal oaks, which...
Página 376 - Itith, 1723 ; the fon of Samuel Reynolds and Theophila Potter. He was on every fide connected with the church ; for both his father and grandfather were in holy orders; and his mother and maternal grandmother were daughters of ci'.-rgymen.
Página 373 - ... the few steps that led to the throne, and bending on one knee, presented the box, with a short address to his imperial majesty...

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