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... expression , characterised his later efforts ; and often led him to sacrifice perspicuity and force to the elegant indirectness which he had learned from the Roman orator . 6 Whether from the slenderness of his means , from previous ...
... expression , characterised his later efforts ; and often led him to sacrifice perspicuity and force to the elegant indirectness which he had learned from the Roman orator . 6 Whether from the slenderness of his means , from previous ...
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... expression , or to pursue any excursion of thought which presented itself at the time of delivery . In com- position , he was most fastidious , and has been known to occupy a whole forenoon in modelling and remodelling the first ...
... expression , or to pursue any excursion of thought which presented itself at the time of delivery . In com- position , he was most fastidious , and has been known to occupy a whole forenoon in modelling and remodelling the first ...
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... expression of their desire to have the subject at once and finally dismissed . They did not object to the principle in its general application . But considering that they were numbered with the founders of the society - that they had ...
... expression of their desire to have the subject at once and finally dismissed . They did not object to the principle in its general application . But considering that they were numbered with the founders of the society - that they had ...
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... expression of the simple and severe , though not unfrequently touching on sublimity and grace . Such a classification , how- ever , although it may be sufficiently correct for general purposes , is founded on a sort of criticism that is ...
... expression of the simple and severe , though not unfrequently touching on sublimity and grace . Such a classification , how- ever , although it may be sufficiently correct for general purposes , is founded on a sort of criticism that is ...
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... expression , still , it is not his strong point : in this particular , the fiends in his Dante , and the fine ... expressing an individual opinion ; and we now quit the subject with a reiteration of our protest against all such ...
... expression , still , it is not his strong point : in this particular , the fiends in his Dante , and the fine ... expressing an individual opinion ; and we now quit the subject with a reiteration of our protest against all such ...
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Page 464 - A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another.
Page 462 - Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Page 24 - Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it ; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores : they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Page 355 - I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Page 84 - Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
Page 298 - WE then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Page 185 - which has " the promise of this life as well as of that which
Page 16 - As the Father hath sent me, I also send you. When he had said this, he breathed on them ; and he said to them : Receive ye the Holy Ghost : whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them ; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.
Page 17 - The body and blood of Christ which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper.
Page 145 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.