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 11
... received their religion from the Greeks , when they became considerable or politic enough to contract alliances with the court of Constan- tinople . We have thus briefly traced the progress of Christianity in the old world ; and it will ...
... received their religion from the Greeks , when they became considerable or politic enough to contract alliances with the court of Constan- tinople . We have thus briefly traced the progress of Christianity in the old world ; and it will ...
Pagina 17
... receiving Christianity . Ignorant , uncivilized , slavish , and brutish nations , ' says Bishop Law , are no less uncapable of duly receiving such an institution than they are of all those other sciences , arts , and improvements ...
... receiving Christianity . Ignorant , uncivilized , slavish , and brutish nations , ' says Bishop Law , are no less uncapable of duly receiving such an institution than they are of all those other sciences , arts , and improvements ...
Pagina 22
... received from Archbishop Wake , the Bishop of London , and the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge , assurances of their assistance . That assistance was continued from time to time for some twenty years , when , upon the proposal ...
... received from Archbishop Wake , the Bishop of London , and the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge , assurances of their assistance . That assistance was continued from time to time for some twenty years , when , upon the proposal ...
Pagina 24
... received from Dr. Coke , that they extended their exertions to a scale which made it necessary to form a separate society for its support and management . In this outburst of zeal one missionary society of a more ques- tionable ...
... received from Dr. Coke , that they extended their exertions to a scale which made it necessary to form a separate society for its support and management . In this outburst of zeal one missionary society of a more ques- tionable ...
Pagina 28
... received in payment for prayers and masses , which are either to open the gates of purgatory or cool its atmosphere . From the widow's mite to the largest contribu- tions of the affluent , they have all been free - will offerings ; and ...
... received in payment for prayers and masses , which are either to open the gates of purgatory or cool its atmosphere . From the widow's mite to the largest contribu- tions of the affluent , they have all been free - will offerings ; and ...
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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.