The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 1F. and C. Rivington, 1814 |
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... doctrines of our national Church , and with the principles of our civil con- stitution . The volume before us contains four Charges , delivered to the Clergy of the three several Dioceses , over which Bishop Horsley successively ...
... doctrines of our national Church , and with the principles of our civil con- stitution . The volume before us contains four Charges , delivered to the Clergy of the three several Dioceses , over which Bishop Horsley successively ...
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... doctrine , or any other ground of duty , as the express declaration of the Word of God faithfully propounded and ... doctrines , the discipline , and the formularies of our Church . It is , indeed , easy to write or to talk slightly and ...
... doctrine , or any other ground of duty , as the express declaration of the Word of God faithfully propounded and ... doctrines , the discipline , and the formularies of our Church . It is , indeed , easy to write or to talk slightly and ...
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... doctrinal dis- courses properly managed are less interesting to the common people than those which merely recommend ... doctrine of the first reformers , concerning works done before justification , which is laid down in the 13th of our ...
... doctrinal dis- courses properly managed are less interesting to the common people than those which merely recommend ... doctrine of the first reformers , concerning works done before justification , which is laid down in the 13th of our ...
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... doctrines , which they saw perverted and abused . We hope and believe that this mistaken policy is now abandoned : it would inevitably be fatal to its own cause : if from one set of pulpits only lessons of morality were heard , while ...
... doctrines , which they saw perverted and abused . We hope and believe that this mistaken policy is now abandoned : it would inevitably be fatal to its own cause : if from one set of pulpits only lessons of morality were heard , while ...
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... doctrine with the Calvinists ; except so far as to shew that a difference of opinion upon what is called the Calvinistic points is no sort of reason for a separation of communions . I confess I cannot under- stand upon what principle ...
... doctrine with the Calvinists ; except so far as to shew that a difference of opinion upon what is called the Calvinistic points is no sort of reason for a separation of communions . I confess I cannot under- stand upon what principle ...
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Page 42 - When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions : So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than my life.
Page 292 - Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power, Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, Degraded mass of animated dust ! Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat, Thy smiles hypocrisy, thy words deceit ! By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on — it honours none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise, I never knew but one, and here he lies.
Page 432 - The Germans in Greek Are sadly to seek ; Not five in five score, But ninety-five more ; All, save only Hermann, And Hermann's a German.
Page 291 - WHEN some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rest below : When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been...
Page 541 - Gibbon's Decline and fall, vol. vi. p. 320. ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. 1. 1 1s done — but yesterday a King ! And arm'd with Kings to strive — And now thou art a nameless thing So abject — yet alive ! Is this the man of thousand thrones, Who strew'd our Earth with hostile bones ? And can he thus survive ? Since he, miscall'd the Morning Star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far.
Page 291 - Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth : While man, vain insect ! hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.
Page 42 - When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Page 7 - Works done before the grace of Christ, and the Inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ...