The Monthly Review; or, Litereary Journal: From January to June, inclusive.1782 |
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... reason to think many things new will occur to the reader , if he has the patience to look for them ; and that the new things he will meet with , are fuch as will lead to a new train of experi- ments.'We fhould obferve likewife , that ...
... reason to think many things new will occur to the reader , if he has the patience to look for them ; and that the new things he will meet with , are fuch as will lead to a new train of experi- ments.'We fhould obferve likewife , that ...
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... reason , that the subject was in great perplexity . " -How far the Author's ether and expandible matter ' are likely to clear up this perplexity ; or what idea these two terms , thus united , are defigned to convey , we pretend not even ...
... reason , that the subject was in great perplexity . " -How far the Author's ether and expandible matter ' are likely to clear up this perplexity ; or what idea these two terms , thus united , are defigned to convey , we pretend not even ...
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... reason to fuppofe , thany thing happens , in the refraction or inflection of light , mat can july be faid to refemble any effects produced by the mere change of direction , which a current of air fuffers in paffing through a narrow ...
... reason to fuppofe , thany thing happens , in the refraction or inflection of light , mat can july be faid to refemble any effects produced by the mere change of direction , which a current of air fuffers in paffing through a narrow ...
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... reasons in the last section . " Croffing the lake in a 9 . 66 } ship to Gadara , and back 12. " to Capernaum · II . Teaching and preaching 10 . " To Nazareth in the cities of Galilee 3 Granted in part . Not granted . Granted . Not ...
... reasons in the last section . " Croffing the lake in a 9 . 66 } ship to Gadara , and back 12. " to Capernaum · II . Teaching and preaching 10 . " To Nazareth in the cities of Galilee 3 Granted in part . Not granted . Granted . Not ...
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... reason for fuppofing any more . Your Lordship may fpeak as flightly as you please of a single miracle publicly performed , but certainly if the circumstances were fuch as to leave no doubt but that it was a real miracle , it must have ...
... reason for fuppofing any more . Your Lordship may fpeak as flightly as you please of a single miracle publicly performed , but certainly if the circumstances were fuch as to leave no doubt but that it was a real miracle , it must have ...
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Page 105 - LORD GOD, LAMB of GOD, SON of the FATHER, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of GOD the FATHER, have mercy upon us.
Page 118 - Malloch to English Mallet, without any imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can discover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend.
Page 403 - ... the odoriferous furrow exhilarates his spirits, and seems to do the child a great deal of good, for he looks more blooming since I have adopted that practice; can more pleasure, more dignity be added to that primary occupation? The father thus ploughing with his child, and to feed his family, is inferior only to the emperor of China ploughing as an example to his kingdom.
Page 371 - Thus the pleasure of seeing them come out to fight or to work, alternately, may be obtained as often as curiosity excites, or time permits; and it will certainly be found, that the one order never attempts to fight, nor the other to work, let the emergency be ever so great.
Page 555 - NOW it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Page 271 - Surely it is no narrow and niggardly encomium to say he is the great Poet of Reason, the first of ethical authors in verse. And this species of writing is, after all, the surest road to an extensive reputation. It lies more level to the general capacities of men than the higher flights of more genuine poetry.
Page 103 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hast given unto us thy servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of the divine Majesty to worship the Unity...
Page 116 - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
Page 271 - Chesterfield on one hand, and of Walpole on the other, failed not to make a poem bought up and talked of. And it cannot be doubted, that the Odes of Horace which celebrated, and the satires which ridiculed, well-known and real characters at Rome, were more eagerly read, and more frequently cited, than the jEneid and the Georgic of Virgil.
Page 114 - May 1731, he married Lady Elizabeth Lee, daughter of the Earl of Litchfield, and widow of Colonel Lee. His connexion with this lady arose from his father's acquaintance, already mentioned, with Lady Anne Wharton, who was coheiress of Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley in Oxfordshire.