Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal EnlargedRalph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1818 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... truths , or to illus- trate a train of argument . It is shrewd , sententious , and aphoristic , but it not unfrequently degenerates into mere point , if not flippancy : -it abounds in antithesis and meta- phor , but the contrast is not ...
... truths , or to illus- trate a train of argument . It is shrewd , sententious , and aphoristic , but it not unfrequently degenerates into mere point , if not flippancy : -it abounds in antithesis and meta- phor , but the contrast is not ...
Side 22
... truths , placed in a striking light ; and it con- tains many apophthegms which may prove valuable in the conduct of life , delivered in such a manner as to impress themselves forcibly on the memory . We shall exemplify our remarks by a ...
... truths , placed in a striking light ; and it con- tains many apophthegms which may prove valuable in the conduct of life , delivered in such a manner as to impress themselves forcibly on the memory . We shall exemplify our remarks by a ...
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... truth to assert , that the external circumstances and accidents of a man's life , and , what is more important , his physical and moral habits are calculated to have a greater efficacy than any seeds of disorder that may lie concealed ...
... truth to assert , that the external circumstances and accidents of a man's life , and , what is more important , his physical and moral habits are calculated to have a greater efficacy than any seeds of disorder that may lie concealed ...
Side 30
... truth . We meet with an anecdote of Whitfield , the famous founder of the Calvinistical Methodists in this country , which will probably amuse some of our readers . In 1739 he began to propagate his favourite doctrines on the other side ...
... truth . We meet with an anecdote of Whitfield , the famous founder of the Calvinistical Methodists in this country , which will probably amuse some of our readers . In 1739 he began to propagate his favourite doctrines on the other side ...
Side 32
... Truth , that , when he soon afterward pro- posed a plan for forming an armed association for the defence of the province by a voluntary subscription , the subscribers in a short time amounted to ten thousand ; who furnished themselves ...
... Truth , that , when he soon afterward pro- posed a plan for forming an armed association for the defence of the province by a voluntary subscription , the subscribers in a short time amounted to ten thousand ; who furnished themselves ...
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Side 160 - ... that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides.
Side 222 - It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries ' Thus thou must do, if thou have it; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.
Side 29 - But mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress, in spite of principle: being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver! They had been bought for me without my knowledge by my wife, and had cost her the enormous sum of...
Side 29 - We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon.
Side 27 - The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people, having no...
Side 29 - Deity; that he made the world, and govern'd it by his Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.
Side 10 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Side 33 - Hell that could well be imagin'd; there was no appeasing the tumult, and we retired to our lodging. At midnight, a number of them came thundering at our door, demanding more rum, of which we took no notice. "The next day, sensible they had...
Side 60 - In compliance with this appointment, the lord mayor, the .sheriffs, and several of the aldermen attended. The prisoners were .assembled together ; and it being requested that no alteration in their usual practice might take place, one of the ladies read a chapter in the Bible, and then the females proceeded to their various avocations. Their attention...
Side 28 - My circumstances, however, grew daily easier. My original habits of frugality continuing, and my father having, among his instructions to me when a boy, frequently repeated a proverb of Solomon, " Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...