The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson Munroe and Francis, 1808 - American literature Vols. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... present ; but that there are no means of com- pelling indolence to write with la- bour and attention , and that by such a temper of mind the task of composing may be made suffi- ciently easy . As it is at present , then , if a clergyman ...
... present ; but that there are no means of com- pelling indolence to write with la- bour and attention , and that by such a temper of mind the task of composing may be made suffi- ciently easy . As it is at present , then , if a clergyman ...
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... present curiosity universally excited by the meteor which lately appeared in Weston , in Connecticut , to re - publish from a celebrated English journal the following interesting sketch of all the facts and opinions , which have of late ...
... present curiosity universally excited by the meteor which lately appeared in Weston , in Connecticut , to re - publish from a celebrated English journal the following interesting sketch of all the facts and opinions , which have of late ...
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... present state of our knowledge , entitled to draw . But an hypothesis may perhaps sug- gest itself , unincumbered by any For the Anthology . NOTICE OF GRIESBACH'S EDITION OF THE 16 [ Jan. Account of Atmospherick Phenomena .
... present state of our knowledge , entitled to draw . But an hypothesis may perhaps sug- gest itself , unincumbered by any For the Anthology . NOTICE OF GRIESBACH'S EDITION OF THE 16 [ Jan. Account of Atmospherick Phenomena .
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... present day , when sacred criticism has received so much improve . ment , we should still be taught to consider as sacred , a text settled two centuries ago upon much few . er authorities than we now possess , it would not be easy ...
... present day , when sacred criticism has received so much improve . ment , we should still be taught to consider as sacred , a text settled two centuries ago upon much few . er authorities than we now possess , it would not be easy ...
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... present usage , and con- quently to shock the ears of the generality of readers as to say , By this mean , by that mean . Even Webster is ashamed to contend for such phrases . Yet one half the lawyers and clergymen of this metropolis ...
... present usage , and con- quently to shock the ears of the generality of readers as to say , By this mean , by that mean . Even Webster is ashamed to contend for such phrases . Yet one half the lawyers and clergymen of this metropolis ...
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Page 599 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 309 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good : here stands the man ; good : If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes ; mark you that ? but if the water come to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life. 2 Clo. But is this law ? 1 Clo. Ay, marry is 't ; crowner's-quest law. 2 Clo. Will you ha...
Page 312 - Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father, now! For why Will man lament the state he should envy? To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery, yet age! Rest in soft peace; and, asked, say: Here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry — For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
Page 230 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 217 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 342 - A Platform of Church Discipline gathered out of the word of God: and agreed upon by the Elders; and Messengers of the Churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in New England to be presented to the Churches and General!
Page 217 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Page 30 - To die, is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never break nor tempests roar : Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis o'er.
Page 111 - When at Oxford, I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it But 1 found Law quite an overmatch for me...
Page 146 - ... becomes pleasure. Hence it proceeds that there is such a thing as a sorrow soft and agreeable: it is a pain weakened and diminished. The heart likes naturally to be moved and affected. Melancholy objects suit it, and even disastrous and sorrowful, provided they are softened by some circumstance. It is certain that, on the theatre, the representation has almost the effect of reality; yet it has not altogether that effect.