The Critical Review: Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1805 - English literature |
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... writer will pause to admire and explain the miraculous gifts of the Spirit ; the calling and grafting - in of the Gentiles ; the stub- bornness and rejection of the Jews ; the lives and manners of the early christians ; the constitution ...
... writer will pause to admire and explain the miraculous gifts of the Spirit ; the calling and grafting - in of the Gentiles ; the stub- bornness and rejection of the Jews ; the lives and manners of the early christians ; the constitution ...
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... writer did not feel himself at liberty to pass over the statement and connection of facts . ' If this reason be valid , we do not sufficiently see why it was not ob- ligatory upon the bishop of London also : or why , in other words ...
... writer did not feel himself at liberty to pass over the statement and connection of facts . ' If this reason be valid , we do not sufficiently see why it was not ob- ligatory upon the bishop of London also : or why , in other words ...
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... writers of their lives ) , we should be sorry to shock it by rendering their undesired and undeserved notoriety more extensive by transcription . But when we saw the name of Dr. Bree in this volume , we began to fear we were introduced ...
... writers of their lives ) , we should be sorry to shock it by rendering their undesired and undeserved notoriety more extensive by transcription . But when we saw the name of Dr. Bree in this volume , we began to fear we were introduced ...
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... writer and Whitehall preacher , -when Mr. Kett , we say , is not only ironically termed a ' public character , ' but even his verses , of which he must long since have repented , and rejoiced in their ' dropping dead from the press ...
... writer and Whitehall preacher , -when Mr. Kett , we say , is not only ironically termed a ' public character , ' but even his verses , of which he must long since have repented , and rejoiced in their ' dropping dead from the press ...
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... writer , the English fleet was running away before the enemy , how , unless he supposes the ships to have sailed head hindmost , could the image of his majesty , which formed the head of the ship , be offended at the sight of what it ...
... writer , the English fleet was running away before the enemy , how , unless he supposes the ships to have sailed head hindmost , could the image of his majesty , which formed the head of the ship , be offended at the sight of what it ...
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Page 47 - Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say ? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods : because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Page 231 - And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair !...
Page 50 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Page 231 - If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day, Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey.
Page 228 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot; Cold diffidence and age's frost In the full tide of song were lost...
Page 162 - God but by new birth, nor according to the manifest ordinary course of divine dispensation newborn, but by that baptism which both declareth and maketh us Christians. In which respect we justly hold it to be the door of our actual entrance into God's house, the first apparent beginning of life, a seal perhaps to the grace of Election, before received, but to our sanctification here a step that hath not any before it.
Page 382 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 48 - Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 45 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure...
Page 141 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...