The liberal critic; or, Memoirs of Henry Percy, Volume 31812 |
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... Quakers ' meeting . - They do not escape - his criticism . He lashes their follies , but admires their origin , and ... Quakerism . - Interesting re- searches and curious facts . TO complete the observations of Henry , on the religious ...
... Quakers ' meeting . - They do not escape - his criticism . He lashes their follies , but admires their origin , and ... Quakerism . - Interesting re- searches and curious facts . TO complete the observations of Henry , on the religious ...
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... Quakers , did not escape his criticism ; and , as his remarks are sprinkled with some novelty , I am proud to believe the reader will find them worthy of atten- tention , The radical origin of the Quakers is so little understood , that ...
... Quakers , did not escape his criticism ; and , as his remarks are sprinkled with some novelty , I am proud to believe the reader will find them worthy of atten- tention , The radical origin of the Quakers is so little understood , that ...
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... Quakers . And he observed , that this sect originally appeared under the name of Seekers , and very generally , if not first , in South Wales . For it was known that George Fox arranged his system , after availing himself of the ...
... Quakers . And he observed , that this sect originally appeared under the name of Seekers , and very generally , if not first , in South Wales . For it was known that George Fox arranged his system , after availing himself of the ...
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... Quakers . The Cambrian nations were represented to him as divided into the bards and the unlettered . To the bard it was forbidden to bear arms , or to be- come a party in a dispute ; nor was a naked weapon even to be held exposed in ...
... Quakers . The Cambrian nations were represented to him as divided into the bards and the unlettered . To the bard it was forbidden to bear arms , or to be- come a party in a dispute ; nor was a naked weapon even to be held exposed in ...
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... Quakers , the punishment of excommunication was inflicted , and sacrifices offered , and some- times public executions were performed , amid symptoms of national mourning and religious horror , highly honourable to the public virtue of ...
... Quakers , the punishment of excommunication was inflicted , and sacrifices offered , and some- times public executions were performed , amid symptoms of national mourning and religious horror , highly honourable to the public virtue of ...
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Page 262 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 291 - THIS is the last letter you will ever receive from me, the last assurance I shall give you on earth, of a sincere and...
Page 246 - The heart proves to be only the inert receptacle of the blood, and thofe grofler fpirits which ferve for the animal function : but the pocket is fraught with thofe finer and more fublime fpirits which confiitute the wit, and many other diftinguifhing characters.
Page 292 - ... calmly resign your breath, and enter the confines of unmolested joy. — I am now taking my farewell of you here; but it is a short adieu, with full persuasion that we shall soon meet again.
Page 287 - Towns and cities, like Jericho, without any miracle have fallen flat before it ; it has ftopp'd the mouths of cannons, and more furprizing ftill, of faction and flander.
Page 300 - For feme time after the celebration of the nuptials, they entertained a reciprocal affection. She was all fondnefs, he all indulgence. But their intimacy, inftead of increafing, dimini'fhed their regard. Her beauty, the more it was familiar to his eye, grew lefs attractive to his heart; and his converfation grew lefs engaging, the more fhe partook of the natural levity of her fex.
Page 292 - ... magnify thee. What a dream is mortal life ! What shadows are all the objects of mortal sense ! all the glories of mortality (my much beloved friend) will be nothing in your view at the awful hour of death, when you must be separated from this lower creation, and enter on the borders of the immortal world. Something persuades me this will be the last farewell in this world; Heaven forbid it should be an everlasting parting : may that divine protection, whose care I io>plore, keep you stedfast...
Page 292 - Gentiles trust, in whom all the families of the earth are blessed, is now my glorious, my unfailing confidence ; in His merits alone I expect to stand justified before infinite purity and justice. How poor were my hopes if I depended on those works which my own...
Page 248 - I have remarked a pfyftcian in the chamber of a wealthy patient, clear up his countenance, and write his recipe with infinite vivacity and good humour ; but in the abode »3» SYMfATHY BETWEEN THE BREECHES-POCKET, &C.