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... thing that requires to be placed before the Reader in passages selected from the rest . The whole may be commended with propriety , and perused with ac- vantage . British Critic , vol . XII . p . 310 . Porter , which is added , a Sermon ...
... thing that requires to be placed before the Reader in passages selected from the rest . The whole may be commended with propriety , and perused with ac- vantage . British Critic , vol . XII . p . 310 . Porter , which is added , a Sermon ...
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... thing good , and no scantiness appearing . Dr. Taylor had a good estate of his own , and good preferment in the church . He was a diligent justice of the peace ; and presided over the town of Ashbourne , to the inhabitants of which , I ...
... thing good , and no scantiness appearing . Dr. Taylor had a good estate of his own , and good preferment in the church . He was a diligent justice of the peace ; and presided over the town of Ashbourne , to the inhabitants of which , I ...
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... thing agreeable or use- ful be found in these volumes .'- Though the Editor , however , thinks it proper that , in a work of such magnitude , which has not hitherto been confined to time or price , some pause should be made ; he does ...
... thing agreeable or use- ful be found in these volumes .'- Though the Editor , however , thinks it proper that , in a work of such magnitude , which has not hitherto been confined to time or price , some pause should be made ; he does ...
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... thing was personified , rendered the Poem for some years extremely popular . In 1793 , he published the first volume of Zoonomia , or the Laws of Or- ganic Life , 4to . The second volume , which completed the plan , was printed in 1796 ...
... thing was personified , rendered the Poem for some years extremely popular . In 1793 , he published the first volume of Zoonomia , or the Laws of Or- ganic Life , 4to . The second volume , which completed the plan , was printed in 1796 ...
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... thing would answer , provided it were executed properly : I mean , with taste , discrimination , and judgment , Several pieces that appeared in Warburton's Edi- tion ought to be expunged ; as well as some that have been in- troduced ...
... thing would answer , provided it were executed properly : I mean , with taste , discrimination , and judgment , Several pieces that appeared in Warburton's Edi- tion ought to be expunged ; as well as some that have been in- troduced ...
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Página 741 - Watch ye therefore : for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Página 518 - A Demonstration of the gross and fundamental Errors of a late Book, called " A plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper," affectionately addressed to all Orders of Men, and more especially to all the younger Clergy, 8vo.
Página 115 - Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue...
Página 39 - God has made of one blood all the nations of men to dwell on the face of the...
Página 240 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season.
Página 641 - How poor, neglected Desaguliers fell! How he who taught two gracious kings to view All Boyle ennobled and all Bacon knew. Died in a cell, without a friend to save, Without a guinea, and without a grave.
Página 340 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters ; These men see the works of the LORD : and His wonders in the deep.
Página 400 - Nature, which I was at that time composing, this argument immediately occurred to me, and I thought it very much gravelled my companion ; but at last he observed to me, that it was impossible for that argument to have any solidity, because it operated equally against the Gospel as the Catholic miracles ; — which observation I thought proper to admit as a sufficient answer.
Página 516 - But these sallies of religious frenzy must not extinguish the praise which is due to Mr. William Law as a wit and a scholar. His argument on topics of less absurdity is specious and acute, his manner is lively, his style forcible and clear ; and, had not his vigorous mind been clouded by enthusiasm, he might be ranked with the most agreeable and ingenious writers of the times.
Página 55 - Remarks on the Letters of an American Farmer; or, a Detection of the Errors of Mr. J. Hector St. John, pointing out the pernicious tendency of those Letters to Great Britain,