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Σελίδα 51
... mind , by throwing hues of false gloom or luxuriance over life , it gives us great pleasure to find , now and then , a work of moral tendency . Such is the one now before us . " Gent . Mag . vol . LIX . p . 547 . * Of this curious work ...
... mind , by throwing hues of false gloom or luxuriance over life , it gives us great pleasure to find , now and then , a work of moral tendency . Such is the one now before us . " Gent . Mag . vol . LIX . p . 547 . * Of this curious work ...
Σελίδα 53
... mind well informed with the knowledge of the Scriptures , and deeply impressed with a rational piety . It concludes with a warm , and at the same time a modest address to the Guardians of the Asylum . - The second Discourse shews the ...
... mind well informed with the knowledge of the Scriptures , and deeply impressed with a rational piety . It concludes with a warm , and at the same time a modest address to the Guardians of the Asylum . - The second Discourse shews the ...
Σελίδα 60
... mind ; that he had great activity in some respects , and yet such a sort of indolence , that if you should put a pebble upon his chimney- piece , you would find it there , in the same state , a year after- wards . " ( Ibid . vol . III ...
... mind ; that he had great activity in some respects , and yet such a sort of indolence , that if you should put a pebble upon his chimney- piece , you would find it there , in the same state , a year after- wards . " ( Ibid . vol . III ...
Σελίδα 69
... mind firm as his own could ever have emerged . After shewing that he was better skilled in legal lore than the greatest Law Luminaries of the present age , he became an outlaw , and a man of indigence , Yet , even thus depressed , he ...
... mind firm as his own could ever have emerged . After shewing that he was better skilled in legal lore than the greatest Law Luminaries of the present age , he became an outlaw , and a man of indigence , Yet , even thus depressed , he ...
Σελίδα 79
... mind to see the memories of the illustrious dead rescued from unmerited reproach . " A Third Edition , considerably enlarged , appeared in 1794 , " built generally on the basis of that which preceded it ; but many parts of the ...
... mind to see the memories of the illustrious dead rescued from unmerited reproach . " A Third Edition , considerably enlarged , appeared in 1794 , " built generally on the basis of that which preceded it ; but many parts of the ...
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Σελίδα 741 - Watch ye therefore : for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Σελίδα 518 - A Demonstration of the gross and fundamental Errors of a late Book, called " A plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper," affectionately addressed to all Orders of Men, and more especially to all the younger Clergy, 8vo.
Σελίδα 115 - Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue...
Σελίδα 39 - God has made of one blood all the nations of men to dwell on the face of the...
Σελίδα 240 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season.
Σελίδα 641 - How poor, neglected Desaguliers fell! How he who taught two gracious kings to view All Boyle ennobled and all Bacon knew. Died in a cell, without a friend to save, Without a guinea, and without a grave.
Σελίδα 340 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters ; These men see the works of the LORD : and His wonders in the deep.
Σελίδα 400 - Nature, which I was at that time composing, this argument immediately occurred to me, and I thought it very much gravelled my companion ; but at last he observed to me, that it was impossible for that argument to have any solidity, because it operated equally against the Gospel as the Catholic miracles ; — which observation I thought proper to admit as a sufficient answer.
Σελίδα 516 - But these sallies of religious frenzy must not extinguish the praise which is due to Mr. William Law as a wit and a scholar. His argument on topics of less absurdity is specious and acute, his manner is lively, his style forcible and clear ; and, had not his vigorous mind been clouded by enthusiasm, he might be ranked with the most agreeable and ingenious writers of the times.
Σελίδα 55 - Remarks on the Letters of an American Farmer; or, a Detection of the Errors of Mr. J. Hector St. John, pointing out the pernicious tendency of those Letters to Great Britain,