The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volume 11Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 |
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... human converse and human love , to be as a clod of the valley , afforded a lesson awfully impressive , fraught with practical humiliation , and the testimonies of our abject de- pendance upon God's inscrutable providence . It was an ...
... human converse and human love , to be as a clod of the valley , afforded a lesson awfully impressive , fraught with practical humiliation , and the testimonies of our abject de- pendance upon God's inscrutable providence . It was an ...
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... humanity ; and such was the privi- lege of this illustrious young lady , such the charter annexed to her quality and virtue , that death appeared to consecrate her value , and inscribe upon the hearts of the people the lesson which her ...
... humanity ; and such was the privi- lege of this illustrious young lady , such the charter annexed to her quality and virtue , that death appeared to consecrate her value , and inscribe upon the hearts of the people the lesson which her ...
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... 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 , who look for obedience take care how they relax the ...
... 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 , who look for obedience take care how they relax the ...
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... human beings of the widest disparity in rank to be occasionally placed within each other's near view and embrace upon the plane of their essential equality and common dependence upon one God and Saviour , is a part of the divine economy ...
... human beings of the widest disparity in rank to be occasionally placed within each other's near view and embrace upon the plane of their essential equality and common dependence upon one God and Saviour , is a part of the divine economy ...
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... human con- stitution will always of themselves secure a demand for the commo- dities of trade , sufficiently effective to bring forward a supply equal to the real needs of the population , and to their power of purchasing . But the ...
... human con- stitution will always of themselves secure a demand for the commo- dities of trade , sufficiently effective to bring forward a supply equal to the real needs of the population , and to their power of purchasing . But the ...
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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.