The Monthly Review

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Hurst, Robinson, 1842 - Books
 

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Page 286 - Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns...
Page 263 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts; knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Page 590 - Our great, our high duty is to show, in our own example, that this spirit is a spirit of health as well as a spirit of power; that its benignity is as great as its strength; that its efficiency to secure individual rights, social relations, and moral order, is equal to the irresistible force with which it prostrates principalities and powers. The world, at this moment, is regarding us with a willing, but something of a fearful admiration.
Page 261 - The Church is undoubtedly one, and so is the human race one ; but not as a Society. It was from the first composed of distinct societies, which were called one, because formed on common principles. It is One Society only when considered as to its future existence.
Page 342 - The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit : The first true gentleman, that ever breathed.
Page 32 - William Balfour, the Lieutenant of the Tower. At the back of this is a...
Page 417 - History of the War of Independence of the United States of America.
Page 31 - This done, he makes through a number of people towards his coach, all gazing, no man capping to him, before whom that morning the greatest of England would have stood discovered, all crying. What is the matter ? he said, A small matter, I warrant you...
Page 434 - Knowledge, as described in the patent in 1709, was, and it still is, " the increase of piety and virtue, within Scotland, especially in the Highlands, islands and remote corners thereof, where error, idolatry, superstition and ignorance do mostly abound, by reason of the largeness of the parishes, and the scarcity of schools.
Page 118 - All were welcome that came; and even their beasts had so much care taken of them, that it was humorously said, " If a horse was turned loose in any part of the country, it would immediately make its way to the rector of Houghton's.

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