The Universal review; or, Chronicle of the literature of all nations, 1. köide1824 |
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... give to those unacquainted with Indian history and politics , any con- ception of the subject . Nor is it necessary . This is a new and separate question which would in itself justify and require a distinct article . If we can- not ...
... give to those unacquainted with Indian history and politics , any con- ception of the subject . Nor is it necessary . This is a new and separate question which would in itself justify and require a distinct article . If we can- not ...
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... give honour where honour is due , it shall be our very first ukase , that no man is to bear the style and title of an Englishman , who habitually shuns his coun- try and insults her character ; nor of a patriot , who prefers Flo ...
... give honour where honour is due , it shall be our very first ukase , that no man is to bear the style and title of an Englishman , who habitually shuns his coun- try and insults her character ; nor of a patriot , who prefers Flo ...
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... give them , and Adéle will take this for me . Two inches higher , and the ball had split it ... what a thoughtless man he was ! There is gold in it too : it weighs heavy . Pest ! an old woman at the back ! grey as a cat . " It was the ...
... give them , and Adéle will take this for me . Two inches higher , and the ball had split it ... what a thoughtless man he was ! There is gold in it too : it weighs heavy . Pest ! an old woman at the back ! grey as a cat . " It was the ...
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... give him credit , though as imperceptibly to himself , per- haps , as the mistake of the good - natured man , who passed his life in doing ill - natured things . We shall state the case as the publication before us , correctly enough no ...
... give him credit , though as imperceptibly to himself , per- haps , as the mistake of the good - natured man , who passed his life in doing ill - natured things . We shall state the case as the publication before us , correctly enough no ...
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... gives a very different account of matters ; so different a one indeed , that we could almost rather fancy we had ... give them a religion perfectly pure and spiritual , and disembarrassed of all external ceremonies , he says , " Even ...
... gives a very different account of matters ; so different a one indeed , that we could almost rather fancy we had ... give them a religion perfectly pure and spiritual , and disembarrassed of all external ceremonies , he says , " Even ...
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Page 427 - How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? that; And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Page 34 - Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven ; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Page 28 - I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of 'Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 289 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Page 292 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Page 250 - The spring is come; the violet's gone, The first-born child of the early sun : With us she is but a winter's flower, The snow on the hills cannot blast her bower, And she lifts up her dewy eye of blue To the youngest sky of the self-same hue.
Page 429 - And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me!
Page 28 - Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the earth is mine. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Page 394 - Aristotle; not for the worthlessness of the author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the way; being a philosophy (as his lordship used to say) only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man; in which mind he continued to his dying day.
Page 34 - And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?