The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volum 97

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Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1827
 

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Pàgina 93 - If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or -in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
Pàgina 335 - We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. " All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told us...
Pàgina 280 - And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
Pàgina 393 - For the Methode of a Poet historical is not such, as of an Historiographer. For an Historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions ; but a Poet thrusteth into the middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the thinges forepaste, and divining of thinges to come, maketh a pleasing Analysis of all.
Pàgina 338 - And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho : he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
Pàgina 473 - Upon the Sundays and other Holy-days (if there be no Communion) shall be said all that is appointed at the Communion, until the end of the general Prayer [For the whole state of Christ's Church militant here in earth] together with one or more of these Collects last before rehearsed, concluding with the Blessing.
Pàgina 242 - These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Pàgina 321 - Prussia ; and when that prince writes as a wit to a wit, he is capable of great indiscretions. But what surprises me still more is, that whenever Voltaire's name is mentioned, his Prussian Majesty never fails to give him the epithets he may deserve : which are, ' The worst heart and greatest rascal now living ; ' yet with all this he continues to correspond with him. Such, in this prince, is the lust of praise from a great and elegant writer ; in which, however, he will at last be the dupe : for...
Pàgina 399 - A GOOD sword and a trusty hand ! A merry heart and true ! King James's men shall understand What Cornish lads can do. And have they fixed the where and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why...
Pàgina 418 - It has rescued us, first from heathenism, then from papal idolatry and superstition ; it has saved us from temporal as well as spiritual despotism. We owe to it our moral and intellectual character as a nation ; much of our private happiness, much of our public strength. Whatever should weaken it, would in the same degree injure the common weal ; whatever should overthrow it, would in sure and immediate consequence bring down the goodly fabric of that Constitution, whereof it is a constituent and...

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