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Page 574
... character and manners , and far more interesting to the heart , than the Iliad itself : often as sublime , and ten thousand times more pleasing . It is a great mistake to suppose , that Mr. It 574 Protestant Dissenters . - Attainments ...
... character and manners , and far more interesting to the heart , than the Iliad itself : often as sublime , and ten thousand times more pleasing . It is a great mistake to suppose , that Mr. It 574 Protestant Dissenters . - Attainments ...
Page 575
... character ; and as if it were not much more worthy of notice , that even , notwithstanding his dissipations , his love of Literature , his love of regu- lated and constitutional Freedom , the energy and the benevolence of his mind ...
... character ; and as if it were not much more worthy of notice , that even , notwithstanding his dissipations , his love of Literature , his love of regu- lated and constitutional Freedom , the energy and the benevolence of his mind ...
Page 576
... character of song is , however , on the whole not melancholy , I shall readily admit . And indeed Love , and Joy , and Gra- titude ( if I may hazard the expres- sion ) , seem to be the inspirers of the song of birds . Mr. URBAN , A ...
... character of song is , however , on the whole not melancholy , I shall readily admit . And indeed Love , and Joy , and Gra- titude ( if I may hazard the expres- sion ) , seem to be the inspirers of the song of birds . Mr. URBAN , A ...
Page 579
... characters of the Britons and the Americans . Their charac- ters are kept perfectly distinct , while their destinies ... character , is luminously perspicu ous , dignified though simple , and never attenuated , never verbose . the style ...
... characters of the Britons and the Americans . Their charac- ters are kept perfectly distinct , while their destinies ... character , is luminously perspicu ous , dignified though simple , and never attenuated , never verbose . the style ...
Page 614
... character of the others , and which perhaps had better be omitted . The following appear trifling ; at least , we are inclined to ask cui bono ? - It is " When cards have been once or twice played with , send them to the book - binder ...
... character of the others , and which perhaps had better be omitted . The following appear trifling ; at least , we are inclined to ask cui bono ? - It is " When cards have been once or twice played with , send them to the book - binder ...
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Page 770 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 981 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Page 584 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life...
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Page 839 - France shall have disembarked it in the harbours specified, or in any other of the ports of France to which stress of weather may force them, every facility shall be given them to return to England without delay ; and security against capture until their arrival in a friendly port.
Page 770 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Page 988 - I run into the crowd for shelter and warmth; but cannot prevail with myself to mix with such deformity. I call upon others to join me, in order to make a company apart; but no one will hearken to me. Every one keeps at a distance, and dreads that storm, which beats upon me from every side.
Page 839 - All the places and forts in the kingdom of Portugal, occupied by the French troops, shall be delivered up to the British army in the state in which they are at the period of the signature of the present Convention.
Page 941 - At length, however, all regard to the rights of others having been thrown aside, the belligerent powers have beset the highway of commercial intercourse with edicts which, taken together, expose our commerce and mariners, under almost every destination, a prey to their fleets and armies. Each party, indeed, would admit our commerce with themselves, with the view of associating us in their war against the other. But we have wished war with neither. Under these circumstances were passed the laws of...