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... prophet of Judah's shadowed days , Ruskin was " valiant for truth . " For over twenty years he was preeminently a critic of art . But he was no dilettante defender of that pictorial putrescence which is sometimes foisted upon a gullible ...
... prophet of Judah's shadowed days , Ruskin was " valiant for truth . " For over twenty years he was preeminently a critic of art . But he was no dilettante defender of that pictorial putrescence which is sometimes foisted upon a gullible ...
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... prophet of reality was not satisfied with mere doing of the right , but he insisted on the necessity of loving the right . His Scottish mother had so indoctrinated him with the spirit of the New Testament that he well understood that ...
... prophet of reality was not satisfied with mere doing of the right , but he insisted on the necessity of loving the right . His Scottish mother had so indoctrinated him with the spirit of the New Testament that he well understood that ...
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... prophets spoke words of undiluted strength , and that Peter and Paul were not afraid to speak out . Then , too , there was One greater than prophet or apostle who denounced the formalistic , hypo- critical scribes and Pharisees in words ...
... prophets spoke words of undiluted strength , and that Peter and Paul were not afraid to speak out . Then , too , there was One greater than prophet or apostle who denounced the formalistic , hypo- critical scribes and Pharisees in words ...
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