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... respect to contemporaneous events . The orations of Demosthenes were addressed to a nation less advanced in civilization than that which Cicero harangued ; but the actual effect of the Grecian's eloquence was probably not greater than ...
... respect to contemporaneous events . The orations of Demosthenes were addressed to a nation less advanced in civilization than that which Cicero harangued ; but the actual effect of the Grecian's eloquence was probably not greater than ...
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... wisely with respect to such details . This were the historian's , not the poet's part ; Such task would ill the gentle muse bescem , Who to the thoughtful mind and pious heart Comes with B 2 Poems by Southey and Wordsworth .
... wisely with respect to such details . This were the historian's , not the poet's part ; Such task would ill the gentle muse bescem , Who to the thoughtful mind and pious heart Comes with B 2 Poems by Southey and Wordsworth .
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... respect to the hopes of man , and we call upon at least every believer in the promises of inspiration , to discard those morbid feelings of im- patience and distrust which the too exclusive contemplation of human agency is apt to ...
... respect to the hopes of man , and we call upon at least every believer in the promises of inspiration , to discard those morbid feelings of im- patience and distrust which the too exclusive contemplation of human agency is apt to ...
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... nature to feel for the remains of the dead ; and all this rendered still more emphatic by the secresy and mystery of the unexplored abode ! If , with respect to the second of the great pyramids , there were 23 Clarke's Travels .
... nature to feel for the remains of the dead ; and all this rendered still more emphatic by the secresy and mystery of the unexplored abode ! If , with respect to the second of the great pyramids , there were 23 Clarke's Travels .
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... respect human infirmities . ' Vol . I. pp . 275 , 278 . In the pages which immediately follow , the rise and progress of Monachism are detailed . Its absurdities are displayed , and its anti - christian tendencies reprobated with a ...
... respect human infirmities . ' Vol . I. pp . 275 , 278 . In the pages which immediately follow , the rise and progress of Monachism are detailed . Its absurdities are displayed , and its anti - christian tendencies reprobated with a ...
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Page 412 - Will you be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word...
Page 172 - IT is certain by God's word, that children which are baptized, dying before they commit actual sin, are undoubtedly saved.
Page 533 - And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 588 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 410 - City, and holding a pure faith in the unity of the Spirit and in the bond of peace...
Page 381 - Nor aught else in the liquid mirror laves Its portraiture, but some inconstant star Between one foliaged lattice twinkling fair, Or, painted bird, sleeping beneath the moon, Or gorgeous insect floating motionless, Unconscious of the day, ere yet his wings Have spread their glories to the gaze of noon.
Page 387 - Die, he or justice must; unless for him Some other, able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction ; death for death.
Page 534 - And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Page 359 - For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Page 45 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.