Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 21-221856 |
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... writing . There is the forced tone of the stage , a histrionic mannerism shewn on every occasion however tame . He seems to think that he is nothing if not histrionic . His style moreover is frequently ungrammatical , and his sentences ...
... writing . There is the forced tone of the stage , a histrionic mannerism shewn on every occasion however tame . He seems to think that he is nothing if not histrionic . His style moreover is frequently ungrammatical , and his sentences ...
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... writes the plain , but good , and almost unerring style of a man who learned to write , before Queen Anne was dead , and who lived to write on till George Third had passed the middle stage of life . With regard to the other writers of ...
... writes the plain , but good , and almost unerring style of a man who learned to write , before Queen Anne was dead , and who lived to write on till George Third had passed the middle stage of life . With regard to the other writers of ...
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... writer in the Princeton Essays , in illustration of one attempt to reconcile such combinations ( it is in the Essay on Regeneration ) , says well : - " The truth is , that this whole system is a forced and unnatural union between ...
... writer in the Princeton Essays , in illustration of one attempt to reconcile such combinations ( it is in the Essay on Regeneration ) , says well : - " The truth is , that this whole system is a forced and unnatural union between ...
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... writer in the ' Reasoner , ' who blames Mr Combe for complicating his argument unneces- sarily and uselessly , with some of the truths of theism , and who thinks that the doctrine of ' natural laws , ' can only be maintained ...
... writer in the ' Reasoner , ' who blames Mr Combe for complicating his argument unneces- sarily and uselessly , with some of the truths of theism , and who thinks that the doctrine of ' natural laws , ' can only be maintained ...
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... writing , thanks to the book clubs , the fireside and the kitchen . Molly the housemaid sheds her tears copiously , or opens her great round eyes to their widest extent , as she peruses the highly seasoned pages of Mr Reynolds , besides ...
... writing , thanks to the book clubs , the fireside and the kitchen . Molly the housemaid sheds her tears copiously , or opens her great round eyes to their widest extent , as she peruses the highly seasoned pages of Mr Reynolds , besides ...
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Page 336 - This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.
Page 88 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all ; and in thine hand is power and might ; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Page 124 - But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
Page 203 - These see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. For He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Page 175 - thing of evil! prophet still, if bird or devil! Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted On this home by Horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!
Page 350 - And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf : and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 193 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 169 - But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. 34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth': I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 302 - Unfetter'd by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most...
Page 191 - For the Lord is a great God, And a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth : The strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it : And his hands formed the dry land.