A New Review: With Literary Curiosities and Literary Intelligence, Volume 6

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Page 478 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone : for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it ; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 476 - ... upon either of the following subjects, — to confirm and establish the Christian Faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics — upon the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures — upon the authority of the writings of the Primitive Fathers, as to the faith and practice of the Primitive Church — upon the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ — upon the Divinity of the Holy Ghost — upon the Articles of the Christian Faith, as comprehended in the Apostles
Page 363 - Affection ever true, Graces thy side, her vest of glowing hue ; And in her train twelve blooming girls advance. Touch golden strings, and knit the mirthful dance Thy dreaded implements they bear, And wave them in the scented air.
Page 140 - ... state, in order to put it out of the power of slander to be busy with her fame after death, she adjured him by their friendship to let her have the satisfaction of dying at least, though she had not lived, his acknowledged wife.
Page 141 - happened to call in just at the time that the workmen were taking down the pictures and other furniture in the parlour ; that parlour where for such a number of years he had passed so many happy hours. Struck with the sight, he burst into tears, and rushed into a dark closet, where he continued a quarter of an hour before he could compose himself. When it is considered that he was at that time verging on seventy, an age in which the heart...
Page 289 - And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 468 - And hear ye this, all you who have discovered the treasures which I am to leave behind me. If I leave behind me ten pounds (above my debts, and...
Page 8 - Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it ; very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof. It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the most high have bended it.
Page 269 - The revenue of this country is about 14,000,000 of florins, of which the city of Vienna contributes above five, as one man in the capital earns as much as three in the country. The fouthern parts of Auftria are covered with hills, which rife gradually from the banks of the Danube to the borders of Stiria, and are covered with woods. They lofe themfelves in the mafs of , mountains which run to the fouth of Germany, and ftretch through all Stiria, Carniola, Carinthia, and Tyrol, to the Swifs Alps,...
Page 129 - Oliver, that he, with his own sons, might play with his royal highness : but they had not been long together, before Charles and Oliver disagreed ; and as the former was then as weakly as the latter was strong, it was no wonder that the royal visitant was worsted; and Oliver, even at this age, so little regarded dignity, that he made the royal blood flow in copious streams from the prince's nose. This was looked upon as a bad presage for that king when the civil wars commenced.

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