The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 2F. and C. Rivington, 1814 - English literature |
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... remarks , which are to be found upon it in the third and fifth letters , and in a note appended to page 113 , are well worthy the attention of our readers . It appears , from the course of the correspondence , that the Editor's ...
... remarks , which are to be found upon it in the third and fifth letters , and in a note appended to page 113 , are well worthy the attention of our readers . It appears , from the course of the correspondence , that the Editor's ...
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... remarks have already been extended , and look forward to the important matter which yet remains to be investigated , we feel the neces- sity of proceeding on our way . At the same time we cannot refrain from recommending the whole ...
... remarks have already been extended , and look forward to the important matter which yet remains to be investigated , we feel the neces- sity of proceeding on our way . At the same time we cannot refrain from recommending the whole ...
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... remarks , already too long , by one or two hints to our own countrymen , arising out of the topics we have been discuss- ing . If France be such as we have described her , or but just ceasing to be such , an unrestrained intercourse ...
... remarks , already too long , by one or two hints to our own countrymen , arising out of the topics we have been discuss- ing . If France be such as we have described her , or but just ceasing to be such , an unrestrained intercourse ...
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... remarks we will take the liberty of inverting the order in which the parts stand in the volume . Of the prison amusements we shall say without any hesitation or exception , that we lament their republication almost as much as the cause ...
... remarks we will take the liberty of inverting the order in which the parts stand in the volume . Of the prison amusements we shall say without any hesitation or exception , that we lament their republication almost as much as the cause ...
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... remarks let us not be misundertood ; we do this failure to Mr. M. as a fault . His plan obliged into more detail than Milton's , and in so doing it was for him to adhere to that fallacy , which exists only impose by thobscurity through ...
... remarks let us not be misundertood ; we do this failure to Mr. M. as a fault . His plan obliged into more detail than Milton's , and in so doing it was for him to adhere to that fallacy , which exists only impose by thobscurity through ...
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Page 377 - Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. 5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
Page 317 - Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
Page 423 - Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever : for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Page 471 - Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Page 495 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...
Page 522 - Fear not : for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
Page 423 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shall thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shall not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 351 - ... there are some which, though they see their object clearly and distinctly in general ; yet, when they come to unfold its parts by discourse or writing, lose that luminous conception which they had before attained. All accounts agree in ascribing to Cromwell, a tiresome, dark, unintelligible elocution, even when he had no intention to disguise his meaning : Yet, no man's actions were ever, in such a variety of difficult incidents, more decisive and judicious.
Page 403 - Left by his sire, too young such loss to know, Lord of himself; — that heritage of woe, That fearful empire which the human breast But holds to rob the heart within of rest!— VOL.
Page 629 - And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.