The Eclectic ReviewSamuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood Hodder and Stoughton, 1841 - English literature |
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... learned notes , and an improved Greek index . Such an undertaking by an under - graduate , although nothing very marvellous in itself , was an occurrence so remarkable , that it commanded great attention at Oxford and elsewhere , and ...
... learned notes , and an improved Greek index . Such an undertaking by an under - graduate , although nothing very marvellous in itself , was an occurrence so remarkable , that it commanded great attention at Oxford and elsewhere , and ...
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... learned world , and not less remarkable for genius than for eccentricity . We cannot withhold from our readers a criticism on style , which occurs in a letter of his lordship to Burgess , after the perusal of the Pentalogia . • Since I ...
... learned world , and not less remarkable for genius than for eccentricity . We cannot withhold from our readers a criticism on style , which occurs in a letter of his lordship to Burgess , after the perusal of the Pentalogia . • Since I ...
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... learned so little of it as Peter has done ; though , from what you told me , his vocabulary is much larger than I thought it had been . * The next thing to be inquired concerning him , and what is of still greater importance , is , to ...
... learned so little of it as Peter has done ; though , from what you told me , his vocabulary is much larger than I thought it had been . * The next thing to be inquired concerning him , and what is of still greater importance , is , to ...
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... learned and critical scholars of modern times . Now the language and conduct of the Jews , . on the occasions alluded to , demonstrate that they understood him in this high and peculiar sense ; for the historian represents them not only ...
... learned and critical scholars of modern times . Now the language and conduct of the Jews , . on the occasions alluded to , demonstrate that they understood him in this high and peculiar sense ; for the historian represents them not only ...
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... learned professor or otherwise , it so happens that this is a remarkable era , separating the poetical from the philosophical and rhetorical age of Greek ; so that our present volume might be entitled ' Greek Poetry , ' with the ...
... learned professor or otherwise , it so happens that this is a remarkable era , separating the poetical from the philosophical and rhetorical age of Greek ; so that our present volume might be entitled ' Greek Poetry , ' with the ...
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Page 538 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 127 - Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
Page 548 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Page 432 - For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Page 325 - And one of them named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
Page 122 - Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 124 - Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
Page 538 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels ; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by 't ? Love thyself last : cherish those hearts that hate thee : Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Page 432 - Verily I say unto you, there be some standing here who shall not taste of death till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
Page 438 - But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign ; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas.