The North British review1847 |
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... reason to believe that most of the heathen temples were here- as elsewhere - converted into Christian churches . And though the imperial dominion was far from being friendly to public or private virtue , yet it contributed materially to ...
... reason to believe that most of the heathen temples were here- as elsewhere - converted into Christian churches . And though the imperial dominion was far from being friendly to public or private virtue , yet it contributed materially to ...
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... reason in the demand made by Au- gustine in his first conference with them , that they should join him in his missionary work , which their unchristian resentment had hitherto prevented . Mr. Soames , and other church writers , who are ...
... reason in the demand made by Au- gustine in his first conference with them , that they should join him in his missionary work , which their unchristian resentment had hitherto prevented . Mr. Soames , and other church writers , who are ...
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... reason why a stranger should come and trample on their Scriptural and national rights . Another cause of difference , and not the least fiercely contest- ed , was the mode of cutting that senseless badge of monkery , the ecclesiastical ...
... reason why a stranger should come and trample on their Scriptural and national rights . Another cause of difference , and not the least fiercely contest- ed , was the mode of cutting that senseless badge of monkery , the ecclesiastical ...
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... reason , distinct from their common dis- dain for every thing which appertained to the vanquished . Reli- gion among the Anglo Saxons had sometimes consisted chiefly in the bright reflection of patriotism , and certain of the saints ...
... reason , distinct from their common dis- dain for every thing which appertained to the vanquished . Reli- gion among the Anglo Saxons had sometimes consisted chiefly in the bright reflection of patriotism , and certain of the saints ...
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... reasons hereafter to be explained . We need hardly say , that a very large proportion of these love ballads were written between the years 1660 and 1685 . To begin at the beginning with love is out of the question . We shall , therefore ...
... reasons hereafter to be explained . We need hardly say , that a very large proportion of these love ballads were written between the years 1660 and 1685 . To begin at the beginning with love is out of the question . We shall , therefore ...
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Página 419 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Página 137 - Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier, while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest.
Página 415 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Página 412 - ... too bright, nor good, for human nature's daily food;" it is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity...
Página 43 - All my jewels in like sort take thou with thee, For they are fitting for thy wife, but not for me. ' I will spend my days in prayer, Love and all her laws...
Página 403 - ... thoughts by which the picture is separated at once from hundreds of equal merit, as far as mere painting goes, by which it ranks as a work of high art, and stamps its author, not as the neat imitator of the texture of a skin, or the fold of a drapery, but as the Man of Mind.
Página 412 - And instead of this, there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure.
Página 422 - If, • for every rebuke that we utter of men's vices, we put forth a oklim upon their hearts ; if for every assertion of God's demands from them, we could substitute a display of his kindness to them ; if side by side, with every warning of death, we could exhibit proofs and promises of immortality ; if, in fine, instead of assuming the being of an awful Deity, which men, though they cannot and dare not deny, are always unwilling, sometimes unable, to conceive, we were to show them a near, visible,...
Página 406 - Why we receive pleasure from some forms and colours, and not from others, is no more to be asked or answered than why we like sugar and dislike wormwood.
Página 415 - Meholathite : and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD : and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.