Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, Volume 169F. Jefferies, 1840 - Early English newspapers |
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... writer argues , that his charac- ter has been traduced , from being impli- cated in the Calvinistic controversy . It not necessary , however , to be a Calvinist , in order to rate Jortin extremely low . None could be a stronger Anti ...
... writer argues , that his charac- ter has been traduced , from being impli- cated in the Calvinistic controversy . It not necessary , however , to be a Calvinist , in order to rate Jortin extremely low . None could be a stronger Anti ...
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... writer whom he has quoted observes of a foreign Cathedral that it is a place which it is possible to visit without being reminded of one's frail mortality ; a temple of art where female forms full of softness and vitality rather lead ...
... writer whom he has quoted observes of a foreign Cathedral that it is a place which it is possible to visit without being reminded of one's frail mortality ; a temple of art where female forms full of softness and vitality rather lead ...
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... writer so long ago as 1763 . those awful digressions from the key , in which unmusical. " How can it have come to pass , that a form of worship which can plead so great antiquity , which seems adapted to satisfy the craving of man's ...
... writer so long ago as 1763 . those awful digressions from the key , in which unmusical. " How can it have come to pass , that a form of worship which can plead so great antiquity , which seems adapted to satisfy the craving of man's ...
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... writer - the devotional feeling , the cultivated taste : " Surely there is no immoderation in the wish , that in a land enriched with ten thousand parish churches , her cathedrals and collegiate churches and chapels may be marked by ...
... writer - the devotional feeling , the cultivated taste : " Surely there is no immoderation in the wish , that in a land enriched with ten thousand parish churches , her cathedrals and collegiate churches and chapels may be marked by ...
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... writer , ) from wishing to expel oratory from the service of the sublimest cause in which it can be employed , that I should not care ( but for the Eras- tianism of the principle ) if all who are qualified to be extempore preachers ...
... writer , ) from wishing to expel oratory from the service of the sublimest cause in which it can be employed , that I should not care ( but for the Eras- tianism of the principle ) if all who are qualified to be extempore preachers ...
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