The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volume 11Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 - English literature |
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... ground with a tumultuous recoil . The character , and , we trust , the consequence of the late visitation upon this country , has been altogether of another cast : and viewed in the light of a correction ( and this is not only the most ...
... ground with a tumultuous recoil . The character , and , we trust , the consequence of the late visitation upon this country , has been altogether of another cast : and viewed in the light of a correction ( and this is not only the most ...
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... ground of defence or resistance must be admitted to be , human infirmity and human prejudice will never patiently endure punishment from the hands of those whose example has partly led to the commission of the crime . Let those , then ...
... ground of defence or resistance must be admitted to be , human infirmity and human prejudice will never patiently endure punishment from the hands of those whose example has partly led to the commission of the crime . Let those , then ...
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... ground of a general principle of righteousness , " and " that if you loosen the hold of Christianity upon the hearts of the population , you pull down from their ascendancy all the virtues of Christianity , of which loyalty is one ...
... ground of a general principle of righteousness , " and " that if you loosen the hold of Christianity upon the hearts of the population , you pull down from their ascendancy all the virtues of Christianity , of which loyalty is one ...
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... ground which he has gained has become his by cession rather than by conquest . It is in this way that the church loses the largest portion of her rightful territory . The source of her danger is her own supineness . She has seen in the ...
... ground which he has gained has become his by cession rather than by conquest . It is in this way that the church loses the largest portion of her rightful territory . The source of her danger is her own supineness . She has seen in the ...
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... grounds that from our very souls we bitterly lament the absolute exclusion of so large a pro- portion of the population of most of our great towns , but more especially of the metropolis , from the national church , from want of room ...
... grounds that from our very souls we bitterly lament the absolute exclusion of so large a pro- portion of the population of most of our great towns , but more especially of the metropolis , from the national church , from want of room ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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,
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.