The Eclectic Review, Volum 5;Volum 23Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood 1816 |
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... Manner , and his Style . With respect to the Subject of his history , Mr. Gibbon will readily be allowed to have an advantage over both his competi- tors , in the two important points of unity and grandeur . His subject possesses in a ...
... Manner , and his Style . With respect to the Subject of his history , Mr. Gibbon will readily be allowed to have an advantage over both his competi- tors , in the two important points of unity and grandeur . His subject possesses in a ...
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... manner of writing history , must be sought for in the manner in which an interesting anecdote is related by an entertaining com- panion . The talent of the historian is evidently the same in kind , with that of the skilful story ...
... manner of writing history , must be sought for in the manner in which an interesting anecdote is related by an entertaining com- panion . The talent of the historian is evidently the same in kind , with that of the skilful story ...
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... manner in which the connexion is traced between that empire and the new Persian ; the various migrations of the ... manners and customs of the several countries and ages , which constitute the varying scene of his history , he had be ...
... manner in which the connexion is traced between that empire and the new Persian ; the various migrations of the ... manners and customs of the several countries and ages , which constitute the varying scene of his history , he had be ...
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... manner of composing . The grand outline of his subject he had well considered and thoroughly meditated , and therefore it is bold and luminous ; with the manners and customs of different times , countries , places , and characters , he ...
... manner of composing . The grand outline of his subject he had well considered and thoroughly meditated , and therefore it is bold and luminous ; with the manners and customs of different times , countries , places , and characters , he ...
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... manner to the Notes . They abound in allusions , sometimes obscure , and too often in- delicate ; and of not a few of them it is difficult to discover any higher object , than the desire of shewing that the Author knew more on the ...
... manner to the Notes . They abound in allusions , sometimes obscure , and too often in- delicate ; and of not a few of them it is difficult to discover any higher object , than the desire of shewing that the Author knew more on the ...
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Side 432 - My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Side 562 - Jesu, Maria, shield her well! She folded her arms beneath her cloak, And stole to the other side of the oak.
Side 349 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle ?
Side 564 - A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance!
Side 561 - Is the night chilly and dark ? The night is chilly, but not dark. The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night ,is chill, the cloud is gray : "Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way.
Side 565 - So deeply had she drunken in That look, those shrunken serpent eyes, That all her features were resigned To this sole image in her mind: And passively did imitate That look of dull and treacherous hate!
Side 386 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Side 267 - Out upon Time! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
Side 426 - they are made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven...
Side 561 - The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is gray: 'Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. The lovely lady, Christabel...