The Retrospective Review, Volume 9Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1824 - Books |
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... believe that our peculiar notions should regulate all the rest of mankind— no marvel , then , though some men , and some good men too , perhaps , envy them . They fret , and out of their own weakness but these divisions and subdivisions ...
... believe that our peculiar notions should regulate all the rest of mankind— no marvel , then , though some men , and some good men too , perhaps , envy them . They fret , and out of their own weakness but these divisions and subdivisions ...
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... believe them still before the other . Then do I glory that my virgin - love has stayed for such an object to fix upon , and think how good the stars were to me , that kept me from quenching those flames ( youth or wild love furnished me ...
... believe them still before the other . Then do I glory that my virgin - love has stayed for such an object to fix upon , and think how good the stars were to me , that kept me from quenching those flames ( youth or wild love furnished me ...
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... was either a ma- gician or a heretic , which coming to the ears of the inquisitors at Toledo , they were induced to believe that he was an Illu- minato , or Lutheran , and in order to investigate 46 Life of Ignatius Loyola .
... was either a ma- gician or a heretic , which coming to the ears of the inquisitors at Toledo , they were induced to believe that he was an Illu- minato , or Lutheran , and in order to investigate 46 Life of Ignatius Loyola .
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... believe without examining its nature ; and submitting our stubborn reason to the influence of faith , acquiesce in the mysteries of the jod . Jod is supreme ; but the remaining letters which compose the unspeakable Jeho- vah , are of ...
... believe without examining its nature ; and submitting our stubborn reason to the influence of faith , acquiesce in the mysteries of the jod . Jod is supreme ; but the remaining letters which compose the unspeakable Jeho- vah , are of ...
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... believe every thing he says , and you will gain a true statement ; doubt his word , and he will indulge you with preposterous falsehood . Though fond of society , his greatest punishment is to be cast into polite com- pany , who are ...
... believe every thing he says , and you will gain a true statement ; doubt his word , and he will indulge you with preposterous falsehood . Though fond of society , his greatest punishment is to be cast into polite com- pany , who are ...
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Page 314 - Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 31 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 12 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 314 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 361 - I know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Page 314 - Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side? • There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast.— The desert and illimitable air,— Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 12 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Page 13 - To be still searching what we know not, by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional) this is the golden rule in Theology as well as in Arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a church; not the forced and outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds.
Page 364 - Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in such harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune those spheres above, What art thou but a harbinger of woe? Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more, But orphans...
Page 18 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.