The Eclectic Review, Volume 22; Volume 40Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood C. Taylor, 1824 - English literature |
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... manner in which these labours are prosecuted , we think the responsibilities of British Christians towards their brethren of the neighbouring nations , will not be fully acquitted , until the tone and style of their intercourse with ...
... manner in which these labours are prosecuted , we think the responsibilities of British Christians towards their brethren of the neighbouring nations , will not be fully acquitted , until the tone and style of their intercourse with ...
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... manner , brilliant with wit and grace , gave the fatal blow to inveterate abuses ; and overthrew long standing evils , of which the fall might have been retarded by a more serious mode of attack . The light which they shed abroad ...
... manner , brilliant with wit and grace , gave the fatal blow to inveterate abuses ; and overthrew long standing evils , of which the fall might have been retarded by a more serious mode of attack . The light which they shed abroad ...
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... manner the most simple , perspicuous , and convincing . The great matter for the people of France , ardent as they are , and dis- posed to pursue to its utmost extent , every idea they lay hold of , — is to have the means of learning ...
... manner the most simple , perspicuous , and convincing . The great matter for the people of France , ardent as they are , and dis- posed to pursue to its utmost extent , every idea they lay hold of , — is to have the means of learning ...
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... manners , and a serious religious spirit , and sub- stantial learning shall be recovered in France , it must be by a return to the faith , the manners , and the spirit of its persecuted worthies . Instead , therefore , of looking back ...
... manners , and a serious religious spirit , and sub- stantial learning shall be recovered in France , it must be by a return to the faith , the manners , and the spirit of its persecuted worthies . Instead , therefore , of looking back ...
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... manner . It was necessary to determine the order of publication ; and , though the obvious advantages of a chronological series were not overlooked , there were many reasons which rendered it adviseable , in Mr. H.'s view , to adopt a ...
... manner . It was necessary to determine the order of publication ; and , though the obvious advantages of a chronological series were not overlooked , there were many reasons which rendered it adviseable , in Mr. H.'s view , to adopt a ...
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Page 357 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Page 248 - If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them ; thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams : for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Page 468 - For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life...
Page 248 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 357 - And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Page 494 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Page 261 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 323 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Page 220 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 430 - Not in the least," replied the pendulum; " it is not of six strokes that I complain, nor of sixty, but of millions." *'" Very good," replied the dial; " but recollect, that though you may think of a million strokes in an instant, you are required to execute but one; and that, however often you may hereafter have to swing, a moment will always be given you to swing in.