The Universal review; or, Chronicle of the literature of all nations, 1. köide1824 |
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... language , and dense in the materials , that nothing but a new detail of our own could 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 ...
... language , and dense in the materials , that nothing but a new detail of our own could 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 ...
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... the dinner - table , the draw- ing room , the corso , and the opera box , in such tones of con- scious superiority as these . " In Tuscany the language proves the character of the 2 1824. ] 13 LANDOR's Imaginary Conversations .
... the dinner - table , the draw- ing room , the corso , and the opera box , in such tones of con- scious superiority as these . " In Tuscany the language proves the character of the 2 1824. ] 13 LANDOR's Imaginary Conversations .
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" In Tuscany the language proves the character of the people . Of all pursuits and occupations , for I am unwilling to call it knowledge , the most trifling is denominated virtù . " The Romans , detained from war and activity by a calm ...
" In Tuscany the language proves the character of the people . Of all pursuits and occupations , for I am unwilling to call it knowledge , the most trifling is denominated virtù . " The Romans , detained from war and activity by a calm ...
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... language of prophecy , and that the patriarchal and Mosaic sacrifices were emblema- tical , though he considers them only as designed to convey in- formation applicable to the particular people to whom they were enjoined ; to the times ...
... language of prophecy , and that the patriarchal and Mosaic sacrifices were emblema- tical , though he considers them only as designed to convey in- formation applicable to the particular people to whom they were enjoined ; to the times ...
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... language , which " excludes by a general negative in a compa- rative sense , one of two objects opposed to each other ? " If they never heard of it , we may surely be excused for asking them to look at Hosea vi . 6 , or Psalm xl . 8 , 9 ...
... language , which " excludes by a general negative in a compa- rative sense , one of two objects opposed to each other ? " If they never heard of it , we may surely be excused for asking them to look at Hosea vi . 6 , or Psalm xl . 8 , 9 ...
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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?