The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 3Tobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1816 - Books |
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... civilization of Africa . The cause of humanity has been hitherto upon this subject principally indebted to CRIT . REV . VOL . III . January , 1816 . A individual exertion , which , by exciting the benevolent and THE CRITICAL ...
... civilization of Africa . The cause of humanity has been hitherto upon this subject principally indebted to CRIT . REV . VOL . III . January , 1816 . A individual exertion , which , by exciting the benevolent and THE CRITICAL ...
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... cause of African amelioration imperiously requires the strictest scrutiny into the conduct of those who regulate its pro- ceedings . Every point connected with the well - being of Africa is important to the philanthropist . In our ...
... cause of African amelioration imperiously requires the strictest scrutiny into the conduct of those who regulate its pro- ceedings . Every point connected with the well - being of Africa is important to the philanthropist . In our ...
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... causes of obstruc- tion that retarded their operations ; and the serious losses and weighty expenditure that ... cause for their conduct . The stipulations they made with Mi- nisters for the fulfilment of this engagement in 1808 ...
... causes of obstruc- tion that retarded their operations ; and the serious losses and weighty expenditure that ... cause for their conduct . The stipulations they made with Mi- nisters for the fulfilment of this engagement in 1808 ...
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... cause cannot be doubted . The eleventh and fourteenth accuses the Company , and their servants , of slave trading . This charge is denied , but by no means disproved . The Directors admit , that captured slaves have been publicly sold ...
... cause cannot be doubted . The eleventh and fourteenth accuses the Company , and their servants , of slave trading . This charge is denied , but by no means disproved . The Directors admit , that captured slaves have been publicly sold ...
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... cause of humanity ; although it must be observed , that after a protracted course of unsuccessful en- deavours , the Directors are not free from blame , in persevering to excite expectations , which , from the fallacy of their former ...
... cause of humanity ; although it must be observed , that after a protracted course of unsuccessful en- deavours , the Directors are not free from blame , in persevering to excite expectations , which , from the fallacy of their former ...
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Page 57 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 359 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord ! FROM JOH.
Page 61 - He that backbiteth not with his tongue, Nor doeth evil to his neighbour, Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
Page 506 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 159 - His coming. * [Then cometh the end, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father ; when He shall have put down all rule, and all authority and power. For He must reign till He hath put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Page 86 - As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.
Page 245 - Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 504 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, 50 Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 613 - When day, with farewell beam, delays Among the opening clouds of even, And we can almost think we gaze Through golden vistas into Heaven — Those hues, that make the sun's decline So soft, so radiant, Lord ! are thine.
Page 359 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.