The American Review, and Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 1Saxton and Miles, 1843 - 588 pages |
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... English literature , from the abundance and facility of its reproduction , has not only constituted our main supply , and satisfied our wants , but it has been influential upon our own to such a degree as to prevent it from assuming a ...
... English literature , from the abundance and facility of its reproduction , has not only constituted our main supply , and satisfied our wants , but it has been influential upon our own to such a degree as to prevent it from assuming a ...
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... English Universities , for the first time in half a century , have broken silence on the sub- ject of theoretical Ethics ; and , in addition to the admirable discourse of Professor Sedgewick on the studies of Cam- bridge , have uttered ...
... English Universities , for the first time in half a century , have broken silence on the sub- ject of theoretical Ethics ; and , in addition to the admirable discourse of Professor Sedgewick on the studies of Cam- bridge , have uttered ...
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... English language . Scotland , with a population of less than two millions and an half , has furnished four such works within the last ten years ; England , with more than five times the same population , has furnished but three , and ...
... English language . Scotland , with a population of less than two millions and an half , has furnished four such works within the last ten years ; England , with more than five times the same population , has furnished but three , and ...
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... English ancestry . Whatever may be thought of the reasons he assigns , the fact , at least in respect to Ethical science , is unquestionable . The work of Dr. Wayland is conceived in a more comprehensive and catholic spirit , and deals ...
... English ancestry . Whatever may be thought of the reasons he assigns , the fact , at least in respect to Ethical science , is unquestionable . The work of Dr. Wayland is conceived in a more comprehensive and catholic spirit , and deals ...
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... English writers as , in our judgment , do not deserve to be entirely forgotten . It is our belief that no language possesses a richer mine of philosophic and poetic lore , than that which we have the happiness of speaking . Hoary sages ...
... English writers as , in our judgment , do not deserve to be entirely forgotten . It is our belief that no language possesses a richer mine of philosophic and poetic lore , than that which we have the happiness of speaking . Hoary sages ...
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Page 432 - And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Page 41 - There is no art delivered unto mankind that hath not the works of nature for his principal object, without which they could not consist and on which they so depend as they become actors and players, as it were, of what nature will have set forth.
Page 432 - And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Page 511 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 43 - I say ; for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind an image of that whereof the philosopher bestoweth but a wordish description, which doth neither strike, pierce, nor possess the sight of the soul so much as that other doth.
Page 130 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 73 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Page 42 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigor of his own invention, doth grow in effect another nature, in making things either better than nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew, forms such as never were in nature...
Page 75 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 44 - Grecians' divinity ; to believe, with Bembus, that they were first bringersin of all civility; to believe, with Scaliger, that no philosopher's precepts can sooner make you an honest man than the reading of Virgil; to believe, with Clauserus, the translator of Cornutus...