The Eclectic Review, Volume 16; Volume 34Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood C. Taylor, 1821 - English literature |
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... Give me the greatest heroes , whom ancient times did deify , or such as a more temperate posterity has registered on the lists ' of fame , and I will say that Becket , when he closed his life , was ' full as great as they . All his ...
... Give me the greatest heroes , whom ancient times did deify , or such as a more temperate posterity has registered on the lists ' of fame , and I will say that Becket , when he closed his life , was ' full as great as they . All his ...
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... give them the hue and aspect best suited to the views and feelings of the commentator . It comprehends that critical period when light and darkness were conflicting with each other ; when the partisans of Romish domination , who had ...
... give them the hue and aspect best suited to the views and feelings of the commentator . It comprehends that critical period when light and darkness were conflicting with each other ; when the partisans of Romish domination , who had ...
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... give a formal answer to insinuations like these , would be to rescue them from the effects of the only sensation they are ever likely to excite . It may not , however , be amiss to cite a counter state- ment , collected from the ...
... give a formal answer to insinuations like these , would be to rescue them from the effects of the only sensation they are ever likely to excite . It may not , however , be amiss to cite a counter state- ment , collected from the ...
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... give their advice . He denominates himself the sovereign : they are his bishops , his ealdormen , his thanes . But on other occasions this style of royalty disappears , and the legis- : lative enactments are attributed to the witan in ...
... give their advice . He denominates himself the sovereign : they are his bishops , his ealdormen , his thanes . But on other occasions this style of royalty disappears , and the legis- : lative enactments are attributed to the witan in ...
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... give a somewhat extravagant idea of the pros- perity of his new possessions ; and one of his historians tells his readers , that England far surpasses the Gauls in abundance of the precious metals . If in fertility it may be termed the ...
... give a somewhat extravagant idea of the pros- perity of his new possessions ; and one of his historians tells his readers , that England far surpasses the Gauls in abundance of the precious metals . If in fertility it may be termed the ...
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Page 510 - Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them ; Though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; And though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, Thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them...
Page 244 - For even hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps : who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not ; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 376 - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead.
Page 255 - And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them...
Page 402 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well.
Page 254 - Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole, be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Page 141 - Disordred hong about his shoulders round, And hid his face ; through which his hollow eyne Lookt deadly dull, and stared as astound ; His raw-bone cheekes, through penurie and pine, Were shronke into his jawes, as he did never dine.
Page 130 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Page 255 - Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth on the throne.
Page 241 - Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.