The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 16C. & J. Rivington, and J. Mawman, 1834 |
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... appears to have been a very extraordinary man . We can scarcely wonder that the Wesleyans should be proud of him . With a very feeble frame of body , and a very irregular intellectual training , he undoubtedly achieved wonders within a ...
... appears to have been a very extraordinary man . We can scarcely wonder that the Wesleyans should be proud of him . With a very feeble frame of body , and a very irregular intellectual training , he undoubtedly achieved wonders within a ...
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... appears that , during childhood , he put forth other manifest indications of his future eminence . The quickness of his parts was such , that his parents were induced to consent that he should learn Latin . Moreover , when he was about ...
... appears that , during childhood , he put forth other manifest indications of his future eminence . The quickness of his parts was such , that his parents were induced to consent that he should learn Latin . Moreover , when he was about ...
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... appears to have been , with mental capacities of a high order , could have deliberately surveyed the history of the primitive Catholic Church , without trembling at the thoughts of a defection from that branch of it , which has been ...
... appears to have been , with mental capacities of a high order , could have deliberately surveyed the history of the primitive Catholic Church , without trembling at the thoughts of a defection from that branch of it , which has been ...
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... appears to have been uninfected with these dis- creditable suspicions . For , although he vouchsafed not a sylla- ble in reply to his antagonist , he afterwards joined most cordially in recommending Watson , as the fittest man that ...
... appears to have been uninfected with these dis- creditable suspicions . For , although he vouchsafed not a sylla- ble in reply to his antagonist , he afterwards joined most cordially in recommending Watson , as the fittest man that ...
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... appears , that Watson , ( and we may consider him as the representative of the most moderate and sound - hearted of his sect , ) was , like the vene- rated founder of his society , habitually loyal ; an enemy to those who are given to ...
... appears , that Watson , ( and we may consider him as the representative of the most moderate and sound - hearted of his sect , ) was , like the vene- rated founder of his society , habitually loyal ; an enemy to those who are given to ...
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Page 408 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 402 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.
Page 403 - With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could nor laugh nor wail; Through utter drought all dumb we stood! I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And cried, "A sail! a sail!
Page 405 - O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware : Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware.
Page 410 - To lift the smothering weight from off my breast? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Page 98 - But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it ; yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while ; for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Page 394 - For a multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind; and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident which the rapid communication of intelligence...
Page 74 - The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.
Page 406 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 410 - To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth — And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element ! v.