The Quarterly review, Volume 21Murray, 1819 |
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... hand of public and private charity , ' and the number of destitute poor ' ave- raged an augmentation far exceeding the rate of its actual increase in population . Nor can it be concealed that the leprosy of wicked- ness and crime has ...
... hand of public and private charity , ' and the number of destitute poor ' ave- raged an augmentation far exceeding the rate of its actual increase in population . Nor can it be concealed that the leprosy of wicked- ness and crime has ...
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... hand , it is the interèst of this country , and we may safely add the wish , to preserve peace with America . It is her interest , because that great continent bids fair to become the best mart for her manu- factures ; and she cannot ...
... hand , it is the interèst of this country , and we may safely add the wish , to preserve peace with America . It is her interest , because that great continent bids fair to become the best mart for her manu- factures ; and she cannot ...
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... hand of her own rabble , led on to their own and their coun- try's perdition by anarchical reformers , who are alike ... hands , that there exists a sufficient quantity of talent of every various gradation in Britain ; but the objec ...
... hand of her own rabble , led on to their own and their coun- try's perdition by anarchical reformers , who are alike ... hands , that there exists a sufficient quantity of talent of every various gradation in Britain ; but the objec ...
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... hands of the robber the province of Louisiana , or to capture and plunder Pensacola in a period of peace ; not because she fears the consequences , but because she values her own honour and character above any extension of domi- nion ...
... hands of the robber the province of Louisiana , or to capture and plunder Pensacola in a period of peace ; not because she fears the consequences , but because she values her own honour and character above any extension of domi- nion ...
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... hand , his successor has been carried by religious system far into the other extrente . According to him the whole landscape of human life is overspread with gloom and sorrow and suffering and almost all the appear- ances of nature bear ...
... hand , his successor has been carried by religious system far into the other extrente . According to him the whole landscape of human life is overspread with gloom and sorrow and suffering and almost all the appear- ances of nature bear ...
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Page 50 - In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Page 61 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 54 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent yc shall all likewise perish.
Page 59 - If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Page 131 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 61 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 360 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 397 - To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here.
Page 360 - The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Page 360 - To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their Elysiums. But all this is nothing in the metaphysics of true belief.