The Life of William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester from 1760 to 1779: With Remarks on His WorksLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863 - 655 pages |
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... reader , being furnished with literal citation , might be haunted with no suspicion of misrepresentation from abridgment . Inquiries at Newark , Brant - Broughton , and other places with which Warburton was connected , have eli- cited ...
... reader , being furnished with literal citation , might be haunted with no suspicion of misrepresentation from abridgment . Inquiries at Newark , Brant - Broughton , and other places with which Warburton was connected , have eli- cited ...
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... reader , being furnished with literal citation , might be haunted with no suspicion of misrepresentation from abridgment . Inquiries at Newark , Brant - Broughton , and other places with which Warburton was connected , have eli- cited ...
... reader , being furnished with literal citation , might be haunted with no suspicion of misrepresentation from abridgment . Inquiries at Newark , Brant - Broughton , and other places with which Warburton was connected , have eli- cited ...
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... reader may see how far his early prose style resembled that of his maturer years , I will extract a passage from the version of Cæsar's oration . : - " The generality of those who have spoken before me have wailed over the condition of ...
... reader may see how far his early prose style resembled that of his maturer years , I will extract a passage from the version of Cæsar's oration . : - " The generality of those who have spoken before me have wailed over the condition of ...
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... reader may next wish to see what kind of verse he produced in his days of incipient authorship . The version of Addison's Pygmies and Cranes , ' in imi- tation of the blank verse of Milton , is his best effort , a result which may seem ...
... reader may next wish to see what kind of verse he produced in his days of incipient authorship . The version of Addison's Pygmies and Cranes , ' in imi- tation of the blank verse of Milton , is his best effort , a result which may seem ...
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... that historians , in primitive times , took advantage of this desire to narrate tales of wonder , deluding their readers as jugglers delude the crowd . Another cause , C he says , is national pride , under the influence.
... that historians , in primitive times , took advantage of this desire to narrate tales of wonder , deluding their readers as jugglers delude the crowd . Another cause , C he says , is national pride , under the influence.
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Page 147 - God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must rise from Individual to the Whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 513 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 12 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 79 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 340 - And thus an end was put to this sedition. " [Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man ; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ.
Page 151 - ... you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done, and could not. It is indeed the same system as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your own, as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified 4.
Page 143 - Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Page 653 - A GREEK-ENGLISH LEXICON. Compiled by HG LIDDELL, DD Dean of Christ Church, and R. SCOTT, DD Dean of Rochester.