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Page vii
... respect at least to their general scope and design , lie most level to the common sense of mankind . Though the learning and genius displayed in the following Lectures must ever excite our warmest admiration ; though they abound in ...
... respect at least to their general scope and design , lie most level to the common sense of mankind . Though the learning and genius displayed in the following Lectures must ever excite our warmest admiration ; though they abound in ...
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... respect , 115 : LECTURE X. OF ALLEGORY . Three forms of Allegory : 1. Continued Metaphor ; which is scarcely worth distinguishing from the simple Metaphor - The freedom of the Hebrews in confounding the forms of the Metaphor , Allegory ...
... respect , 115 : LECTURE X. OF ALLEGORY . Three forms of Allegory : 1. Continued Metaphor ; which is scarcely worth distinguishing from the simple Metaphor - The freedom of the Hebrews in confounding the forms of the Metaphor , Allegory ...
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... respect - The future is often spoken of in the perfect present , and the past in the fu- ture Tense ; the reason of the former easy to be explained ; the latter is a matter of considerable difficulty , which neither the Commentators ...
... respect - The future is often spoken of in the perfect present , and the past in the fu- ture Tense ; the reason of the former easy to be explained ; the latter is a matter of considerable difficulty , which neither the Commentators ...
Page xvii
... respect to the two for- mer circumstances ; the latter requires a more minute investigation , and also illustration by examples - The intimate relation between Poetry and Prophecy - The college of Prophets ; a part of whose discipline ...
... respect to the two for- mer circumstances ; the latter requires a more minute investigation , and also illustration by examples - The intimate relation between Poetry and Prophecy - The college of Prophets ; a part of whose discipline ...
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... respect to tragedy in general - The design of the poem - The manners of the three friends : the gradations of passion more strongly marked in them than the diversity of manners - Elihu - The expostulation of God himself - SENTIMENTS ...
... respect to tragedy in general - The design of the poem - The manners of the three friends : the gradations of passion more strongly marked in them than the diversity of manners - Elihu - The expostulation of God himself - SENTIMENTS ...
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Page 63 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 79 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Page 227 - Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Page 327 - His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
Page 319 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; my lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Page 166 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 142 - As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Page 226 - And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God, speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, assemble yourselves and come, gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
Page 103 - And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
Page 93 - And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people; and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.