The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1839 |
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... honour and a stedfast regard to what he considered principle were predominating mo- tives of action , -who was endowed with many private as well as social virtues , and whose heroic bearing under the trying scenes amid which he closed ...
... honour and a stedfast regard to what he considered principle were predominating mo- tives of action , -who was endowed with many private as well as social virtues , and whose heroic bearing under the trying scenes amid which he closed ...
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... honour to the religious part of the Covenanters , notwithstanding his vehement abuse of the whole body . Bishop Burnet is not altogether ruined in our estimation as an historian , because Mr. N. has shown he could write an ab- ject ...
... honour to the religious part of the Covenanters , notwithstanding his vehement abuse of the whole body . Bishop Burnet is not altogether ruined in our estimation as an historian , because Mr. N. has shown he could write an ab- ject ...
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... honours with which his sovereign had invested him . Of this epigram we venture to submit to our readers the following version ; the original is given in the Historia Rerum nuper Regno Scotia Gestarum- ( ascribed to Lewis du Moulin , and ...
... honours with which his sovereign had invested him . Of this epigram we venture to submit to our readers the following version ; the original is given in the Historia Rerum nuper Regno Scotia Gestarum- ( ascribed to Lewis du Moulin , and ...
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... honour and wealth , the surer , the safer , and the shorter path was to have sided with Charles , and have lent the weight of their influence to his schemes . There were some of the clerical leaders in this movement - Henderson , for ...
... honour and wealth , the surer , the safer , and the shorter path was to have sided with Charles , and have lent the weight of their influence to his schemes . There were some of the clerical leaders in this movement - Henderson , for ...
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... honoured ; and then turn to the exhibition before us ; a region surrendered to the principle of evil ; where every spot bears a blasted mark ; where the presence of man is a dreadful infestation ; where , as if they themselves thought ...
... honoured ; and then turn to the exhibition before us ; a region surrendered to the principle of evil ; where every spot bears a blasted mark ; where the presence of man is a dreadful infestation ; where , as if they themselves thought ...
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Page 538 - How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her. For she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Page 412 - For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Page 322 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 412 - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world. even as 1 am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Page 342 - 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 150 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 322 - Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam, purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Page 335 - In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
Page 615 - John, you know what my sentiments have been. You cannot suspect me of favouring readily any thing of this kind. But take care what you do with respect to that young man, for he is as surely called of God to preach, as you are. Examine what have been the fruits of his preaching: and hear him also yourself.
Page 367 - I shall leave him dressed to posterity in the colours I saw him in the next progress after his inauguration, which was as green as the grass he trod on, with a feather in his cap, and a horn, instead of a sword, by his side ; how suitable to his age, calling, or person, I leave others to judge from his pictures...