The Quarterly Review, Volume 32William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1825 |
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Pagina 5
... means the missionaries were welcomed as benefactors and teachers . One contrast more remains to be noticed ; and it is an impor tant one . How triumphantly , or rather with what exultation the Romanists reproach the Protestants for ...
... means the missionaries were welcomed as benefactors and teachers . One contrast more remains to be noticed ; and it is an impor tant one . How triumphantly , or rather with what exultation the Romanists reproach the Protestants for ...
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... means . Those means were the truth of its doctrines , ( proved by their perfect adaptation to the weakness and to the wants of man , ) and the authenticity of its history : for if its records were true , so of necessity was the religion ...
... means . Those means were the truth of its doctrines , ( proved by their perfect adaptation to the weakness and to the wants of man , ) and the authenticity of its history : for if its records were true , so of necessity was the religion ...
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... means of foreign missionaries .: The process was precisely the reverse of that by which the Ro- man world had been converted . There it had begun with the poor and made its way up , unassisted by any human power , or any worldly and ...
... means of foreign missionaries .: The process was precisely the reverse of that by which the Ro- man world had been converted . There it had begun with the poor and made its way up , unassisted by any human power , or any worldly and ...
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... means . They considered the people whom they sought to convert , as children , and never scrupled at deceiving them for their good . That they should not have foreseen how perilously this principle would be abused , may afford reason ...
... means . They considered the people whom they sought to convert , as children , and never scrupled at deceiving them for their good . That they should not have foreseen how perilously this principle would be abused , may afford reason ...
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... means Christianity was first extended beyond what had been the limits of the western empire ; for neither in the east nor in the west had it gone beyond the bounds of the Roman dominion , except in the case of Ireland , and probably of ...
... means Christianity was first extended beyond what had been the limits of the western empire ; for neither in the east nor in the west had it gone beyond the bounds of the Roman dominion , except in the case of Ireland , and probably of ...
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Pagina 450 - This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Pagina 445 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Pagina 219 - Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved.
Pagina 442 - O! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Pagina 520 - We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.
Pagina 218 - I hear her in the tunefu' birds, I hear her charm the air: There's not a bonnie flower that springs By fountain, shaw, or green, There's not a bonnie bird that sings But minds me o
Pagina 216 - Like homely-featured night, of clustering gems ; A star or two, just twinkling on thy brow, Suffices thee ; save that the moon is thine No less than hers : not worn indeed on high With ostentatious pageantry, but set With modest grandeur in thy purple zone, Resplendent less, but of an ampler round.
Pagina 220 - The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, the most joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a Being without passions, is confined to a few modes, and is to be felt, rather than expressed.
Pagina 353 - The Right Joyous and Pleasant History of the Feats, Gests and Prowesses of the Chevalier Bayard, the Good Knight without Fear and without Reproach . BY THE LOYAL SERVANT.
Pagina 302 - Yet serves to second too some other use. So Man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown, Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal ; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.