Retrospective Review, Volume 11Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1825 - Bibliography |
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... thought to have made him a priest , it was more judiciously determined to make him a shoemaker . We conclude his dullness continued , and that his friends acted judiciously , for the utmost literary pre- tensions , made for this " man ...
... thought to have made him a priest , it was more judiciously determined to make him a shoemaker . We conclude his dullness continued , and that his friends acted judiciously , for the utmost literary pre- tensions , made for this " man ...
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... thought I had been dead ; and many came to see me for about fourteen days . I was very much altered in countenance and person , as if my body had been new moulded or changed . While I was in this condition , I had a sense and discerning ...
... thought I had been dead ; and many came to see me for about fourteen days . I was very much altered in countenance and person , as if my body had been new moulded or changed . While I was in this condition , I had a sense and discerning ...
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... thought in respect to him , they called the blasphemer , George Fox . We know how Fox tells us , that upon such an occasion , he qualified this or that nonsense , and how wiser heads than his afterwards gave speciousness to it ; but if ...
... thought in respect to him , they called the blasphemer , George Fox . We know how Fox tells us , that upon such an occasion , he qualified this or that nonsense , and how wiser heads than his afterwards gave speciousness to it ; but if ...
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... thought it necessary to give this brief notice of . some of the extravagant opinions taught , and pretensions made , by Fox , that our readers may understand the ground of that abhorrence in which he was held , and that persecution he ...
... thought it necessary to give this brief notice of . some of the extravagant opinions taught , and pretensions made , by Fox , that our readers may understand the ground of that abhorrence in which he was held , and that persecution he ...
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... thought all men in the same darkness from which he had so unexpectedly burst forth . We have before warned the reader , that he must not expect a connected narrative of Fox's life . Such an abstract would have less interest , and throw ...
... thought all men in the same darkness from which he had so unexpectedly burst forth . We have before warned the reader , that he must not expect a connected narrative of Fox's life . Such an abstract would have less interest , and throw ...
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Page 210 - Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 212 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. "All they shall speak and say unto thee, 'Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us?' "Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Page 87 - But oh ! th' exceeding grace Of highest God that loves His creatures so, And all His works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels He sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve His wicked foe. " How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to...
Page 208 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; My lust shall be satisfied upon them ; 1 will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Page 208 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 214 - For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, with kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves...
Page 206 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 216 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion...
Page 185 - twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one, To live in Paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new! Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run : And, as it works, th' industrious bee Computes its time as well as we.
Page 211 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.