Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association, 1845-1846--1864-1865, Volume 16James Nisbet & Company, 1861 - Christianity |
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... Italy is free , it seems strange to say that in the sixteenth century the merchant navy of England was forbidden by the Pope of Rome to go round the Cape of Good Hope ! A Papal Bull drew a line in the sea , and in defiance of the shape ...
... Italy is free , it seems strange to say that in the sixteenth century the merchant navy of England was forbidden by the Pope of Rome to go round the Cape of Good Hope ! A Papal Bull drew a line in the sea , and in defiance of the shape ...
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... This humbled England , which also fought so hard to withhold self - government from America , would recoil from another War of Independence . This free and sympa- thising country , which has now a heart for Italy 30 OUR INDIAN EMPIRE .
... This humbled England , which also fought so hard to withhold self - government from America , would recoil from another War of Independence . This free and sympa- thising country , which has now a heart for Italy 30 OUR INDIAN EMPIRE .
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... Italy for the Italians ! " would lift that voice still higher and shout across the world , " India for the Indians ! " In short , England , taught by both past and present , would set before her the noble policy of first fitting India ...
... Italy for the Italians ! " would lift that voice still higher and shout across the world , " India for the Indians ! " In short , England , taught by both past and present , would set before her the noble policy of first fitting India ...
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... Italy are copying it now . And grateful for the results which have followed in our own case , we can but say God speed them in their gallant struggle ! " Rash , " you say , " for how could they cope with the armies of the king ? " Ay ...
... Italy are copying it now . And grateful for the results which have followed in our own case , we can but say God speed them in their gallant struggle ! " Rash , " you say , " for how could they cope with the armies of the king ? " Ay ...
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... Italy , for example -this thought is held close to men's hearts . At home , if we mistake not , it is an ever - augmenting idea . The stand- points may be antipodal , but most earnest thinkers converge to this centre . Poetry pleads for ...
... Italy , for example -this thought is held close to men's hearts . At home , if we mistake not , it is an ever - augmenting idea . The stand- points may be antipodal , but most earnest thinkers converge to this centre . Poetry pleads for ...
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Page 274 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 239 - When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them ; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Page 370 - But during the last three centuries, to stunt the growth of the human mind has been her chief object. Throughout Christendom, whatever advance has been made in knowledge, in freedom, in wealth, and in the arts of life, has been made in spite of her, and has everywhere been in inverse proportion to her power.
Page 108 - I cannot ; for it is sealed : " and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, " Read this, I pray thee : " and he saith, " I am not learned." Wherefore the Lord said, " Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men...
Page 218 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side: But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies. He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 238 - And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
Page 367 - The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft, and gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled.
Page 192 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Page 314 - Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all other things shall be added unto you.
Page 323 - Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.