Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science : Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities, and the Higher Classes in Schools, Volume 1Printed at the Press of H. Maxwell, for F. Nichols, Philadelphia, 1805 |
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... marked by the purest benevolence , his precepts tending immediately to the happiness of man , and his promi- ses capable of exciting the most exalted and most glorious hopes , are peculiarly calculated to strike the imagination , and ...
... marked by the purest benevolence , his precepts tending immediately to the happiness of man , and his promi- ses capable of exciting the most exalted and most glorious hopes , are peculiarly calculated to strike the imagination , and ...
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... equal veneration . The proofs of their genuine- ness are more numerous than can be adduced in favour of any other ancient writings . Every relation of a fact is marked by the most exact detail of names , 16 THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION .
... equal veneration . The proofs of their genuine- ness are more numerous than can be adduced in favour of any other ancient writings . Every relation of a fact is marked by the most exact detail of names , 16 THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION .
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... marked by the most exact detail of names , persons , times , and places , that can in any degree throw light upon the subject , and establish its truth . The history , the manners , and the opinions of the times , as they may be ...
... marked by the most exact detail of names , persons , times , and places , that can in any degree throw light upon the subject , and establish its truth . The history , the manners , and the opinions of the times , as they may be ...
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... marked by qualities the most extraordinary , and the most trans- cendent . Every description of every other personage , whether embellished by the fancy of the poet , or pourtrayed by the accuracy of the historian , leaves it evidently ...
... marked by qualities the most extraordinary , and the most trans- cendent . Every description of every other personage , whether embellished by the fancy of the poet , or pourtrayed by the accuracy of the historian , leaves it evidently ...
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... marked with a more striking and appropriate re- ference to a particular train of events , in proportion as the prophets approached more nearly to the time of the Messiah . As he was the great object of the gene- ral expectation of the ...
... marked with a more striking and appropriate re- ference to a particular train of events , in proportion as the prophets approached more nearly to the time of the Messiah . As he was the great object of the gene- ral expectation of the ...
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Página 38 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Página 23 - ... her the cities which he set in flames, the countries which he ravaged and destroyed, and the miserable distress of all the inhabitants of the earth.
Página 31 - Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester ;" which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety.
Página 379 - Shakes off the dust, and rears his reverend head. Then sculpture and her sister-arts revive ; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Página 119 - Dryden saw very early that closeness best preserved an author's sense, and that freedom best exhibited his spirit ; he therefore will deserve the highest praise, who can give a representation at once faithful and pleasing, who can convey the same thoughts with the same graces, and who, when he translates changes nothing but the language.
Página 228 - I have regularly and attentively perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written.
Página 214 - And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me.