Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 37John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1856 - American periodicals |
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... idea of a Plurality of Worlds in the universe of the Creator , has been gradually developed , till it has been insensibly transformed into an article of faith in most intelligent minds , and men have come to believe that not only the ...
... idea of a Plurality of Worlds in the universe of the Creator , has been gradually developed , till it has been insensibly transformed into an article of faith in most intelligent minds , and men have come to believe that not only the ...
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... idea . He then propounds his own doctrine , that " the peculiar character of man's condition seems to claim for him a nature and place unique and inca- pable of repetition in the scheme of the universe ; " and thence proceeds to show ...
... idea . He then propounds his own doctrine , that " the peculiar character of man's condition seems to claim for him a nature and place unique and inca- pable of repetition in the scheme of the universe ; " and thence proceeds to show ...
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... idea of a little air set- tling as a sort of gaseous sea into the hol- lows and channels of the Moon , in the place of water , and quite accounts for the extreme difficulty that is experienced in detecting it by optical phenomena . If ...
... idea of a little air set- tling as a sort of gaseous sea into the hol- lows and channels of the Moon , in the place of water , and quite accounts for the extreme difficulty that is experienced in detecting it by optical phenomena . If ...
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... idea of one is called up , notions of the other are presented with it , as ne- cessarily involved . stronger reasons for its abandonment are brought forward than any that have been adduced in the " Essay . " But if the Plurality of ...
... idea of one is called up , notions of the other are presented with it , as ne- cessarily involved . stronger reasons for its abandonment are brought forward than any that have been adduced in the " Essay . " But if the Plurality of ...
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... idea of the possibility of such general and left irritable ; -the only moral we are laxness of manners as Fielding depicts- disposed at the moment to draw being , of course without astonishment , since he that we also have our Mrs ...
... idea of the possibility of such general and left irritable ; -the only moral we are laxness of manners as Fielding depicts- disposed at the moment to draw being , of course without astonishment , since he that we also have our Mrs ...
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Page 437 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 321 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 44 - It is good, in discourse and speech of conversation, to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest: for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade, any thing too far.
Page 54 - That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Page 429 - Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know, (How nothing's that?) to whom my country owes The great renown, and name wherewith she goes.
Page 4 - When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.
Page 4 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Page 4 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk ; VOL.
Page 4 - For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope; And when he happened to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H...
Page 424 - Lord had touched with heavenly zeal for his truth, they shook off this yoke of anti-Christian bondage, and as the Lord's free people, joined themselves (by a covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, in the fellowship of the gospel, to walk in all his ways, made known, or to be made known unto them, according to their best endeavors, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them.