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... observed in the churches at Mangalore . The christening of children should properly take place on the eighth day , but sometimes this ceremony is postponed for the sake of conve- nience . In regard to marriage , persons are not allowed ...
... observed in the churches at Mangalore . The christening of children should properly take place on the eighth day , but sometimes this ceremony is postponed for the sake of conve- nience . In regard to marriage , persons are not allowed ...
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... observed , seem even to have strengthened and enlarged their pious zeal ; for although necessarily reduced by poverty and wretchedness to more limited means , it appears that the present population of 21,000 have already erected twenty ...
... observed , seem even to have strengthened and enlarged their pious zeal ; for although necessarily reduced by poverty and wretchedness to more limited means , it appears that the present population of 21,000 have already erected twenty ...
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... observed , that this kind of genius is not progressive : when we said so , we did not allude to its power , but its ... observation may add force and facility to the powers of expression . The continual gleanings of such a mind from ...
... observed , that this kind of genius is not progressive : when we said so , we did not allude to its power , but its ... observation may add force and facility to the powers of expression . The continual gleanings of such a mind from ...
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... observe a writer , grown old in sacrificing to a false taste , arrive at length at a conviction that such is the truth ; for it being too late to profit by this discovery , and conse- quently to recant , he has but one course to pursue ...
... observe a writer , grown old in sacrificing to a false taste , arrive at length at a conviction that such is the truth ; for it being too late to profit by this discovery , and conse- quently to recant , he has but one course to pursue ...
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... observe the absence of a company from his regiment ; or the eye perceive the want of a pillar in a portico . It is this linking , this morticeing of one thought into the other , that usually discovers to a writer the feeble parts of his ...
... observe the absence of a company from his regiment ; or the eye perceive the want of a pillar in a portico . It is this linking , this morticeing of one thought into the other , that usually discovers to a writer the feeble parts of his ...
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Página 508 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Página 230 - Obscure they went through dreary shades, that led Along the waste dominions of the dead. Thus wander travellers in woods by night, By the moon's doubtful and malignant light, When Jove in dusky clouds involves the skies, ^ And the faint crescent shoots by fits before their eyes.
Página 378 - Thou, therefore, that sittest in light and glory unapproachable, Parent of angels and men ! next, thee I implore, Omnipotent King, Redeemer of that lost remnant, whose nature thou didst assume, ineffable and everlasting Love! and thou, the third subsistence of Divine infinitude, illumining Spirit, the joy and solace of created things I one Tripersonal Godhead ! look upon this thy poor and almost spent and expiring Church...
Página 379 - But in the latter part of his life he was not a professed member of any particular sect among Christians; he frequented none of their assemblies, nor made use of their peculiar rites in his family.
Página 377 - The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home : Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 95 - While your Memorialists were indulging the hope that Government, from a conviction of the manifold advantages of being put in possession of full and impartial information regarding what is passing in all parts of the Country, would encourage the establishment of Newspapers in the cities and districts under the special patronage and protection of Government, that they might furnish the Supreme Authorities in Calcutta with an accurate account of local occurrences and reports of Judicial proceedings,...
Página 377 - He wrote likewise a System of Divinity, but whether intended for public view, or collected merely for his own use, I cannot determine. It was in the hands of his friend, Cyriac Skinner; and where at present is uncertain.
Página 377 - The next work after this was the writing from his own dictation, some part, from time to time, of a tractate which he thought fit to collect from the ablest of divines who had written of that subject: Amesius, Wollebius, &c., viz. A Perfect System of Divinity, of which more hereafter.
Página 115 - If our motives of action are worthy, it must be wise to render them intelligible throughout an empire, our hold on which is opinion.
Página 83 - Committee, that it is the duty of this country to promote the interest and happiness of the native inhabitants of the British dominions in India, and that such measures -ought to be adopted, as may tend to the introduction among them of useful knowledge, and of religious and moral improvement.