The Eclectic Review, Volume 2; Volume 50Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood 1829 - English literature |
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... objects of pious adventure or sordid speculation have not been wanting in mo- dern times , to stimulate the passion for ... object towards which , as a magnetic pole , every ad- venture has pointed . At the rate , however , at which ...
... objects of pious adventure or sordid speculation have not been wanting in mo- dern times , to stimulate the passion for ... object towards which , as a magnetic pole , every ad- venture has pointed . At the rate , however , at which ...
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... object of society . But let us hear what Xenophon says on this point : " Socrates thought that tyranny and royalty were two species of government essentially different . That in which the subjects were governed by their own consent ...
... object of society . But let us hear what Xenophon says on this point : " Socrates thought that tyranny and royalty were two species of government essentially different . That in which the subjects were governed by their own consent ...
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... objects as requiring his exclusion . The example is bad ; but it is not the only one deserving of reprobation in the Archbishop's survey of the fields of Elysium . The wrathful Achilles , fit only to destroy cities , to subvert kingdoms ...
... objects as requiring his exclusion . The example is bad ; but it is not the only one deserving of reprobation in the Archbishop's survey of the fields of Elysium . The wrathful Achilles , fit only to destroy cities , to subvert kingdoms ...
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... objects against it , the arbi- trary associations which those who follow it introduce into their classification of words , -as the derivation of 8 , a father , from , to acquiesce ; and in such instances , we may concede the propriety ...
... objects against it , the arbi- trary associations which those who follow it introduce into their classification of words , -as the derivation of 8 , a father , from , to acquiesce ; and in such instances , we may concede the propriety ...
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... object . To expect , indeed , to find the work replete with this kind of excellence , would be to look for the proofs of discoveries in Hebrew philology which have not yet been made , and which , it is very probable , never will be made ...
... object . To expect , indeed , to find the work replete with this kind of excellence , would be to look for the proofs of discoveries in Hebrew philology which have not yet been made , and which , it is very probable , never will be made ...
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Page 372 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 542 - And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
Page 47 - He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Page 378 - The Church of England too was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government. But the dissenting interests have sprung up in direct opposition to all the ordinary powers of the world, and could justify that opposition only on a strong claim to natural liberty.
Page 378 - Americans a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole: and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force or shuffle from them by chicane what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies, probably, than in any other people of the earth...
Page 372 - Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Page 201 - The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing their own civil interests. Civil interest I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like.
Page 201 - Lastly, those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
Page 379 - The temper and character which prevail in our colonies are, I am afraid, unalterable by any human art. We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates.
Page 372 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis's Straits; — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the. frozen serpent of the south.