The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 97Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1827 - English essays |
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... whole supporting a square pedestal , with honeysuckle mouldings on each face , and finished with a stone ball and cross . The first story rests on a rusticated basement , and in each face are two Doric columns with antæ at the angles ...
... whole supporting a square pedestal , with honeysuckle mouldings on each face , and finished with a stone ball and cross . The first story rests on a rusticated basement , and in each face are two Doric columns with antæ at the angles ...
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... whole height from the floor of the church , to an architrave and a rich frieze of honeysuckle work , on which rests the ceiling , which is pan- nelled into large square compartments , having a flower in the centre of each . The font is ...
... whole height from the floor of the church , to an architrave and a rich frieze of honeysuckle work , on which rests the ceiling , which is pan- nelled into large square compartments , having a flower in the centre of each . The font is ...
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... whole town , humbly kneeling before them in the church - yard upon hard pointed stones . The oath was administered with a long process and solemn singing . After this he was taken on men's shoulders , and first carried about the priory ...
... whole town , humbly kneeling before them in the church - yard upon hard pointed stones . The oath was administered with a long process and solemn singing . After this he was taken on men's shoulders , and first carried about the priory ...
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... whole . They speak of it as if all its parts were of equal authority , or either as if it were but one book , and not a mere arbitrary collection into one volume , of writings possessing very different degrees of cre- dit and authority ...
... whole . They speak of it as if all its parts were of equal authority , or either as if it were but one book , and not a mere arbitrary collection into one volume , of writings possessing very different degrees of cre- dit and authority ...
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... whole , we shall exhibit the Dean's elucidation of certain Texts , which have occasioned such stumbling . The first is the metaphor of St. Paul , about the Potter having power over the clay , & c . ( Rom . ix . 20 , 21 , 22 ) . The Dean ...
... whole , we shall exhibit the Dean's elucidation of certain Texts , which have occasioned such stumbling . The first is the metaphor of St. Paul , about the Potter having power over the clay , & c . ( Rom . ix . 20 , 21 , 22 ) . The Dean ...
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Page 222 - Now I beseech you, brethren-, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Page 486 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 523 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 491 - They heard, and were abash'd, and up they sprung Upon the wing ; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
Page 524 - Cabinet — that the admission of the Catholics and Dissenters to offices, and of the Catholics to Parliament, (from which latter the Dissenters are now excluded) would, under certain conditions to be specified, be highly advisable, with a view to the tranquillity and improvement of Ireland, and to the general interest of the United Kingdom.
Page 104 - ship-boy on the high and giddy mast," but also in the cabin, where every menial office fell to my lot: yet if I was restless and discontented, I can safely say, it was not so much on account of this, as of my being precluded from all possibility of reading; as my master did not possess, nor do I...
Page 209 - I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute : that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation...
Page 509 - The king was young and lusty, disposed all to mirth and pleasure, and to follow his desire and appetite, nothing minding to travail in the busy affairs of this realm...
Page 105 - The lamentable doggerel which I have already mentioned, and which had passed from mouth to mouth among people of my own degree, had by some accident or other reached his ear, and given him a curiosity to inquire after the author.
Page 15 - A whole gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave ; For this is our custom at Dunmow well known ; Tho' the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own.