Quarterly Review, Volumen 29John Murray, 1823 |
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... evidence of actual appearances , and must not even neglect , in the absence of direct proof , the feeble and uncertain aid of oral tradition . His conclusions concerning remote antiquity will even then amount to probability only , or ...
... evidence of actual appearances , and must not even neglect , in the absence of direct proof , the feeble and uncertain aid of oral tradition . His conclusions concerning remote antiquity will even then amount to probability only , or ...
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... evidence of such an event in the present state of the earth . Philosophers of the French school had long treated it as a fable : and in our own country a system was broached about thirty years ago , under the name of Dr. Hutton , which ...
... evidence of such an event in the present state of the earth . Philosophers of the French school had long treated it as a fable : and in our own country a system was broached about thirty years ago , under the name of Dr. Hutton , which ...
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... evidence of written records , as wholly irrelevant and undeserving of attention , is in itself illogi- cul and unphilosophical . It is true , that to assume these records to be infallible , and above all criticism , is to prejudge the ...
... evidence of written records , as wholly irrelevant and undeserving of attention , is in itself illogi- cul and unphilosophical . It is true , that to assume these records to be infallible , and above all criticism , is to prejudge the ...
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... evidence , we have a decided objection . The falsehood of De Luc's has been at length fully demonstrated by Mr. Buckland in the work before us : and it is only one out of many important points which he has been the first to establish ...
... evidence , we have a decided objection . The falsehood of De Luc's has been at length fully demonstrated by Mr. Buckland in the work before us : and it is only one out of many important points which he has been the first to establish ...
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Independently indeed of direct historical evidence , and with very slight reference to the phenomena exhibited on the earth's surface , philosophical inquirers had long ago been convinced of the recent origin of the human race , and of ...
Independently indeed of direct historical evidence , and with very slight reference to the phenomena exhibited on the earth's surface , philosophical inquirers had long ago been convinced of the recent origin of the human race , and of ...
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Página 277 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud. By T. BOWDLEB, Esq. FRS New Edition, in Volumes for the Pocket ; with 36 Wood Engravings, from Designs by Smirke, Howard, and other Artists.
Página 160 - And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die, but with thee will I establish My Covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons
Página 497 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
Página 161 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
Página 212 - Dr. Dove preached before the King. I saw this evening such a scene of profuse gaming, and the King in the midst of his three concubines, as I had never before seen — luxurious dallying and profaneness.
Página 208 - English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free; and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first to display its force, by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety of our neighbours.
Página 300 - ... one who makes sentences by the statute, as if all above three inches long were confiscate.
Página 205 - English, our nation can never want in any age such, who are able to dispute the empire of wit with any people in the universe. And though the fury of a civil war, and power, for twenty years together, abandoned to a barbarous race of men, enemies of all good learning, had buried the muses...
Página 278 - THE ENGLISH MASTER; Or, STUDENT'S GUIDE TO REASONING AND COMPOSITION. Exhibiting an Analytical View of the English Language, of the Human Mind, and of the Principles of fine Writing. By WILLIAM BANKS, Private Teacher of Composition, Intellectual Philosophy, &c.
Página 387 - If your majesty places any faith in those books, by distinction called divine, you will there be instructed that God is the God of all mankind, not the God of Mahomedans alone.