The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volum 43

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R. Griffiths, 1771
 

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Pàgina 13 - And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know ; but who are ye? And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
Pàgina 371 - ... an interrupted course through the air of the room and the bedding, when it can go through a continued better conductor, the wall. But where it can be had, a...
Pàgina 56 - He was buried, pursuant to his own directions, in a covered passage, leading from a private door of the palace to the north door of Lambeth Church ; and he forbade any monument or epitaph to be placed over him. By his Will he appointed the reverend Dr.
Pàgina 96 - After the victim was slain, the body was burnt, or suspended in a sacred grove near the temple ; part of the blood was sprinkled upon the people, part upon the sacred grove. With the same they also bedewed the images of the gods, the altars, the benches and walls of the temple, both within and without, thus completing their work.
Pàgina 412 - I have mentioned proves, and must make us lament, that he did not complete, or that we have lost, the account he purposed to give of his embassy. These busy scenes were blended with, and terminated by, meditation and philosophic inquiries. Strip each period of its excesses and errors, and it will not be easy to trace out, or dispose, the life of a man of quality into a succession of employments...
Pàgina 50 - Lambeth, to which he afterwards added near 100/. more. To the society for promoting Christian knowledge he was a liberal benefactor; and to that for propagating the gospel in foreign parts, of which he was the president, he paid much attention, was constant at the meetings of its members, and superintended their deliberations with consummate prudence and temper.
Pàgina 280 - When one has long drudged in the dull and unprofitable pages of metaphyfic, how pleafing the tranfition to a moral writer of true genius ! Would you know what that genius is, and where it may be found ? Go to< Shakefpeare, to Bacon, to Montefquieu^ to Roufleau ; and when you have ftudied them, return, if you can, to HUME, and HOBBES, and MALEBRANCHE, and LEIBNITZ, and SPINOSA.
Pàgina 498 - I viewed thee not till now ; Thou art not kind, till now I knew thee not ; And now the rain hath beaten off thy gilt, Thy worthless copper shows thee counterfeit. It grieves me not to see how foul thou art, But mads me that ever I thought thee fair. Go, get thee gone, a copesmate for thy hinds ; I am too good to be thy favourite.
Pàgina 195 - ... more, or would we but remember that we know so little, would instantly vanish. In matters, therefore, which we understand so very imperfectly, to set up human imagination against divine authority ; to rely on crude notions, that things are impossible, which proper testimony...
Pàgina 95 - Norway, offered his own son in sacrifice, to obtain of Odin the victory over his enemy, Harold. Aune, king of Sweden, devoted to Odin the blood of his nine sons, to prevail on that god to prolong his life.

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