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The following piece , which Dr . Chalmers was fond of quoting to his students in
his theological prelections , is in a more elevated strain of poetry : The Temple of
Nature . Talk not of temples — there is one The Ocean heaves resistlessly , Built
...
The following piece , which Dr . Chalmers was fond of quoting to his students in
his theological prelections , is in a more elevated strain of poetry : The Temple of
Nature . Talk not of temples — there is one The Ocean heaves resistlessly , Built
...
Page 238
Favoured by nature and by nature ' s God , we pro duced the lyre of David ; we
gave you Isaiah and Ezekiel ; they are our Olynthians , our Phillipics . Favoured
by nature we still remain ; but in exact proportion as we have been favored by ...
Favoured by nature and by nature ' s God , we pro duced the lyre of David ; we
gave you Isaiah and Ezekiel ; they are our Olynthians , our Phillipics . Favoured
by nature we still remain ; but in exact proportion as we have been favored by ...
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The sketches of literary life - professional writersmay be compared with a similar
description in Humphry Clinker ; ' and the domestic scenes in the novel are true
to nature , both in their satirical views of life and in incidents of a tender and ...
The sketches of literary life - professional writersmay be compared with a similar
description in Humphry Clinker ; ' and the domestic scenes in the novel are true
to nature , both in their satirical views of life and in incidents of a tender and ...
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Capt Hugh Clupperton 17881827 | 7 |
Joseph Forsyth 17631815 | 14 |
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| Title | Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 7 Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Robert Carruthers |
| Editor | Robert Chambers |
| Publisher | Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 15 Dec 2006 |
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