The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volumen11Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 |
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... respects , been the means of giving to the world an unblemished pattern , and of procuring for virtues which adorn the lowest the homage attracted by the highest station . So far this affecting event has operated favour- ably for the ...
... respects , been the means of giving to the world an unblemished pattern , and of procuring for virtues which adorn the lowest the homage attracted by the highest station . So far this affecting event has operated favour- ably for the ...
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... respect . And whether they that enforce , or preach , or maintain , do really feel , and practise , and revere , what they so enforce , or preach , or main- tain , the people of this land are very competent to judge . In all the cases ...
... respect . And whether they that enforce , or preach , or maintain , do really feel , and practise , and revere , what they so enforce , or preach , or main- tain , the people of this land are very competent to judge . In all the cases ...
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... respect on account of the interest he appears to have taken in the education and opening faculties of the Princess Charlotte . There is some- thing peculiarly touching in this softness of the royal grandsire towards the females of his ...
... respect on account of the interest he appears to have taken in the education and opening faculties of the Princess Charlotte . There is some- thing peculiarly touching in this softness of the royal grandsire towards the females of his ...
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... respect for them , descended down the ship's side as she went up , under a royal salute , and the more gratify- ing ... respecting one passage contained in it , and which it was rightly judged would be best answered by " bringing it ...
... respect for them , descended down the ship's side as she went up , under a royal salute , and the more gratify- ing ... respecting one passage contained in it , and which it was rightly judged would be best answered by " bringing it ...
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... respect artificial distinctions , but more deeply to feel that fraternal bond which unites us in a partnership of pain , that affiliating cord which draws us together under one dispensation of sin and sorrow , of hope and forgiveness ...
... respect artificial distinctions , but more deeply to feel that fraternal bond which unites us in a partnership of pain , that affiliating cord which draws us together under one dispensation of sin and sorrow , of hope and forgiveness ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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,
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.