The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Band 11Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 |
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... lady having been the first who had ever put the Hymns of Dr. Watts into her hand - most of which she could repeat from memory . " ( P. 35 , 36. ) It may be recorded here , that her manner to 18 The late Princess Charlotte .
... lady having been the first who had ever put the Hymns of Dr. Watts into her hand - most of which she could repeat from memory . " ( P. 35 , 36. ) It may be recorded here , that her manner to 18 The late Princess Charlotte .
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... hand to a table drawer , and pulling out a handsome one , 66 see if this will prevent a similar accident ! ( P. 87. ) 66 6 During her residence on the coast , the Princess took occasion to display one of those energetic traits which ...
... hand to a table drawer , and pulling out a handsome one , 66 see if this will prevent a similar accident ! ( P. 87. ) 66 6 During her residence on the coast , the Princess took occasion to display one of those energetic traits which ...
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... hand , exclaimed , Now I know you are my friend ; for I have convinced myself that you do not flatter me when you are pleased to approve ! ' " ( P. 55. ) Among the sermons preached upon the occasion of this national loss , that of Dr ...
... hand , exclaimed , Now I know you are my friend ; for I have convinced myself that you do not flatter me when you are pleased to approve ! ' " ( P. 55. ) Among the sermons preached upon the occasion of this national loss , that of Dr ...
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... hands a rumour had reached us of something disloyal and even seditious in its tendency ; and accordingly we sent to ... hand of Dr. Chalmers ; -original , manly , and admonitory . His remarks are natural and just , upon the tendency of ...
... hands a rumour had reached us of something disloyal and even seditious in its tendency ; and accordingly we sent to ... hand of Dr. Chalmers ; -original , manly , and admonitory . His remarks are natural and just , upon the tendency of ...
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... hand of the libeller , the parodist , and the preacher of infidelity . It is the proper business . of the legislature and the heads of the national church , to prevent this mighty mass from being absolutely demoralized . Those who guide ...
... hand of the libeller , the parodist , and the preacher of infidelity . It is the proper business . of the legislature and the heads of the national church , to prevent this mighty mass from being absolutely demoralized . Those who guide ...
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Seite 394 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
Seite 405 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Seite 404 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights, to illuminate our understandings...
Seite 394 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all.
Seite 385 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Seite 412 - You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. — You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Look upon your Hands ! — They are stained with the Blood of your Relations ! You and I were long friends : — You are now my Enemy, — and ' I am, yours,
Seite 102 - And a Man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, and as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Seite 283 - It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit. And those things which have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves: whereas new things piece not so well; but though they help by their utility, yet they trouble by their inconformity.
Seite 410 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Seite 389 - I entertained an opinion that, though certain actions might not be bad because they were forbidden by it, or good because it commanded them, yet probably these actions might be forbidden because they were bad for us, or commanded because they were beneficial to us in their own natures, all the circumstances of things considered.