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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Side 10
... labour is bestowed upon sift- ing out the truth , amid the obscurity or contradictions of con- temporary writers . The period which our Author had under- taken to enlighten , gave him more than his full share of this un- pleasant work ...
... labour is bestowed upon sift- ing out the truth , amid the obscurity or contradictions of con- temporary writers . The period which our Author had under- taken to enlighten , gave him more than his full share of this un- pleasant work ...
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... labour upon the collo- cation of words , than upon that of events ; he was far more con- cerned to produce a succession of well - turned and closely com- pacted periods , than a series of well - chosen and interesting ob- jects and ...
... labour upon the collo- cation of words , than upon that of events ; he was far more con- cerned to produce a succession of well - turned and closely com- pacted periods , than a series of well - chosen and interesting ob- jects and ...
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... labour in its whole structure . Mr. Gibbon's acknowledged cha- racter as a writer , among his friends , seems to have been , that there was no thought , however original or complicated , which he could not force to assume a decent ...
... labour in its whole structure . Mr. Gibbon's acknowledged cha- racter as a writer , among his friends , seems to have been , that there was no thought , however original or complicated , which he could not force to assume a decent ...
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... labour of thought - and the Sage , who could artfully combine in the same work the various riches of philosophy , poetry , and eloquence , must already have possessed the intrepid calmness , which he affected to seek . ' Once more ...
... labour of thought - and the Sage , who could artfully combine in the same work the various riches of philosophy , poetry , and eloquence , must already have possessed the intrepid calmness , which he affected to seek . ' Once more ...
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... labour bestowed in drawing the reader's attention to it . Instead , therefore , of the mysterious interest which the mute heroine might have been made to awaken , we follow her without curiosity , and resent her after - intrusion , as ...
... labour bestowed in drawing the reader's attention to it . Instead , therefore , of the mysterious interest which the mute heroine might have been made to awaken , we follow her without curiosity , and resent her after - intrusion , as ...
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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...