Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... rise of opinions , and find from what slight and sometimes shameful occasions some of them have taken their rise , which yet afterwards have had great autho- rity , and passed almost for sacred in the world , and borne down all before ...
... rise of opinions , and find from what slight and sometimes shameful occasions some of them have taken their rise , which yet afterwards have had great autho- rity , and passed almost for sacred in the world , and borne down all before ...
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... rising and falling in power and honour ; rising out of the earth or waters , and falling into them , for the rising ... rise and reign of the body politic signified thereby . In the heavens , the sun and moon are , by the inter- preters ...
... rising and falling in power and honour ; rising out of the earth or waters , and falling into them , for the rising ... rise and reign of the body politic signified thereby . In the heavens , the sun and moon are , by the inter- preters ...
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... rise from it . ' Here the style rises to a dignity almost worthy of the sublimity of the theme ; the passage was aptly termed by Addison the author's funeral oration over this globe . The Final Conflagration . But ' tis not possible ...
... rise from it . ' Here the style rises to a dignity almost worthy of the sublimity of the theme ; the passage was aptly termed by Addison the author's funeral oration over this globe . The Final Conflagration . But ' tis not possible ...
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... rise in the Church . In 1663 he became rector of Keddington in Suffolk ; it was when ( 1664 ) he became preacher at Lincoln's Inn that his sermons attracted attention , though his mild and evangelical , but undoctrinal , theology ...
... rise in the Church . In 1663 he became rector of Keddington in Suffolk ; it was when ( 1664 ) he became preacher at Lincoln's Inn that his sermons attracted attention , though his mild and evangelical , but undoctrinal , theology ...
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... rise To pay thy morning sacrifice . In 1674 Ken published a Manual of Prayers for the use of the Scholars of Winchester College . It was in this work the three famous hymns , subse- quently altered in wording , were first published . In ...
... rise To pay thy morning sacrifice . In 1674 Ken published a Manual of Prayers for the use of the Scholars of Winchester College . It was in this work the three famous hymns , subse- quently altered in wording , were first published . In ...
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