The North British Review, Volume 7W.P. Kennedy, 1847 - English literature |
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... persons be persuaded to pause for a moment , and learn cau- tion , from the consideration that , in any censure cast upon such trains of inquiry , and such principles of rational speculation , they are , in fact , casting censure on the ...
... persons be persuaded to pause for a moment , and learn cau- tion , from the consideration that , in any censure cast upon such trains of inquiry , and such principles of rational speculation , they are , in fact , casting censure on the ...
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... persons will be apt to allow that adaptation ' and ' design ' are synonymous words . " - " Indeed , I go so far as to believe that it is almost an impossibility in the nature of things , that design should ever be certainly known ...
... persons will be apt to allow that adaptation ' and ' design ' are synonymous words . " - " Indeed , I go so far as to believe that it is almost an impossibility in the nature of things , that design should ever be certainly known ...
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... person , and guarding his property . " Being well read in natural history , he would more likely bring to remembrance , and not without considerable trepidation , the accounts published many years ago in the Moniteur , how , during the ...
... person , and guarding his property . " Being well read in natural history , he would more likely bring to remembrance , and not without considerable trepidation , the accounts published many years ago in the Moniteur , how , during the ...
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... persons . This quarter consists of a labyrinth of lanes , out of which numberless entrances lead into small square courts , and with a dunghill reeking in the centre . Revolting as was the out- ward appearance of these places , I was ...
... persons . This quarter consists of a labyrinth of lanes , out of which numberless entrances lead into small square courts , and with a dunghill reeking in the centre . Revolting as was the out- ward appearance of these places , I was ...
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... person which to an Englishman , even to a Norwich weaver , earning only seven shillings a - week , were unbearable ... persons or to cleanse their dwell- ings - to prefer air and light to darkness and corruption ? Has he made any homes ...
... person which to an Englishman , even to a Norwich weaver , earning only seven shillings a - week , were unbearable ... persons or to cleanse their dwell- ings - to prefer air and light to darkness and corruption ? Has he made any homes ...
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Page 21 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness : and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness ; and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn : they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 15 - GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 25 - For every kind of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind; but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Page 35 - God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah. 6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Page v - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 120 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Page 147 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Page 109 - And while the moralist, who is holding forth on the cover (an accurate portrait of your humble servant) , professes to wear neither gown nor bands, but only the very same long-eared livery in which his congregation is arrayed...
Page 486 - ... law, which was the business I designed to follow, appeared nauseous to me, and I could think of no other way of pushing my fortune in the world but that of a scholar and philosopher. I was infinitely happy 'in this course of life for some months, till at last, about the beginning of September, 1729, all my ardour seemed in a moment to be extinguished, and I could no longer raise my mind to that pitch which formerly gave me such excessive pleasure.