The British Quarterly Review, Volume 5Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1847 - Christianity |
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... give their country is , in most cases , not worth the having ; and when they do condescend to lend a helping hand , their aid is rather cumbersome than convenient . One of the ablest ambassadors this country ever produced informed us ...
... give their country is , in most cases , not worth the having ; and when they do condescend to lend a helping hand , their aid is rather cumbersome than convenient . One of the ablest ambassadors this country ever produced informed us ...
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... give lectures on the Civil and English law . But neither civil nor English law enters at all into the examination for common degrees . Ninety years ago , Blackstone was Vinerian Professor at Oxford . His lectures were , we believe ...
... give lectures on the Civil and English law . But neither civil nor English law enters at all into the examination for common degrees . Ninety years ago , Blackstone was Vinerian Professor at Oxford . His lectures were , we believe ...
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... give him ex- perience ; philosophy , to teach him to reason ; and the best specimens of eloquence and literature , to afford him models of expression and of composition . Such studies should give a zest and flavour to his other ac ...
... give him ex- perience ; philosophy , to teach him to reason ; and the best specimens of eloquence and literature , to afford him models of expression and of composition . Such studies should give a zest and flavour to his other ac ...
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Henry Allon. gotten that it is their plain and obvious duty to give out heat ; or wearing out our excellent eyes in vain attempts to see , amidst the ' palpable obscure ' of a noon - day fog . And should our friends on the table tempt us ...
Henry Allon. gotten that it is their plain and obvious duty to give out heat ; or wearing out our excellent eyes in vain attempts to see , amidst the ' palpable obscure ' of a noon - day fog . And should our friends on the table tempt us ...
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... give us the date , and was absent between two and three years ; during which time , he not only visited the most considerable settlements of New Zealand , and Australia ( with the exception of its western coast ) but penetrated into the ...
... give us the date , and was absent between two and three years ; during which time , he not only visited the most considerable settlements of New Zealand , and Australia ( with the exception of its western coast ) but penetrated into the ...
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Page 410 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 401 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.
Page 410 - Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations : ask thy father, and he will shew thee ; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Page 354 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it : it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 317 - If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover the powers thereof; how far they reach; to what things they are in any degree proportionate; and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension...
Page 401 - From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 410 - The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth : while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Page 320 - Were it fit to trouble thee with the history of this Essay, I should tell thee, that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and' discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side.
Page 288 - ... righteousness, and peace, and joy, in the Holy Ghost.
Page 520 - It would be impossible for language to convey an idea of the state of distress to which the ejected tenantry have been reduced, or of the disease, misery, and even vice, which they have propagated in the towns wherein they have settled ; so that not only they who have been ejected have been rendered miserable, but they have carried with them and propagated that misery.