Reason and Faith, and Other Miscellanies of Henry RogersCrosby, Nichols, and Company, 1853 - 458 oldal |
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... less claims to that honor . Thus , it is singular that even Mr. Hal- lam , in his recent " History of European Literature , ” should not have bestowed upon him any special notice ; dismissing him with only a slight allusion , in a note ...
... less claims to that honor . Thus , it is singular that even Mr. Hal- lam , in his recent " History of European Literature , ” should not have bestowed upon him any special notice ; dismissing him with only a slight allusion , in a note ...
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... less activity of mind , and less zealous to do good , compulsory silence might have been no unacceptable concomitant of a rich living ; but not to Fuller . This year and the following he spent chiefly in the preparation of one of the ...
... less activity of mind , and less zealous to do good , compulsory silence might have been no unacceptable concomitant of a rich living ; but not to Fuller . This year and the following he spent chiefly in the preparation of one of the ...
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... less ; surely it may be safely asserted , since it can diffuse even over the driest geographical and chronological details an unwonted interest . We have a remarkable exemplification of this in those chapters of his " Holy War " in ...
... less ; surely it may be safely asserted , since it can diffuse even over the driest geographical and chronological details an unwonted interest . We have a remarkable exemplification of this in those chapters of his " Holy War " in ...
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... less droll , or rather far more so , is the manner in which he subtilizes on the command , that we are not " to let the sun go down on our wrath . " " Anger kept till the next morning , with manna , doth putrefy and corrupt ; save that ...
... less droll , or rather far more so , is the manner in which he subtilizes on the command , that we are not " to let the sun go down on our wrath . " " Anger kept till the next morning , with manna , doth putrefy and corrupt ; save that ...
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... less . entertainingly constructed than that of Fuller , or Sir Thomas Browne , the very air of whose style the conclusion of this passage most aptly im- itates . " Lamb has made a small selection from the racy sayings of Ful- ler , very ...
... less . entertainingly constructed than that of Fuller , or Sir Thomas Browne , the very air of whose style the conclusion of this passage most aptly im- itates . " Lamb has made a small selection from the racy sayings of Ful- ler , very ...
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380. oldal - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
12. oldal - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound.
313. oldal - There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
420. oldal - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
6. oldal - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
12. oldal - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose; often it consisteth in one knows not what and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
78. oldal - O Printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind! That lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal, as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus; and the serpent's teeth, which he sowed, were nothing else but the letters which he invented.
85. oldal - There is indeed an exception, when any great genius thinks it worth his while to expose a foolish piece ; so we still read Marvell's answer to Parker * with pleasure, though the book it answers be sunk long ago...
219. oldal - For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
83. oldal - HOLLAND, that scarce deserves the name of land As but the off-scouring of the British sand, And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots when they heaved the lead, Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell Of shipwrecked cockle and the muscle-shell, — This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety.