The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1840 |
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... consider- able acquisitions , though it matters not to the present argument in what way those acquisitions were made . It has been thus , also , with all the most eminent missionaries ; with Martyn , Schwartz , Corrie , Morrison , and ...
... consider- able acquisitions , though it matters not to the present argument in what way those acquisitions were made . It has been thus , also , with all the most eminent missionaries ; with Martyn , Schwartz , Corrie , Morrison , and ...
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... consider , whether , with regard to a considerable class of students , this representation be not obviously correct . A young man of five - and - twenty or six - and - twenty years of age , of ardent piety , great sobriety of character ...
... consider , whether , with regard to a considerable class of students , this representation be not obviously correct . A young man of five - and - twenty or six - and - twenty years of age , of ardent piety , great sobriety of character ...
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... consider that one great advantage of this prolonged course of study would be , that the student who enters upon it , even though he commenced it young , would never be permitted to assume the responsibilities of the pastoral office ...
... consider that one great advantage of this prolonged course of study would be , that the student who enters upon it , even though he commenced it young , would never be permitted to assume the responsibilities of the pastoral office ...
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... consider a vital point , and shall therefore dwell upon it at some length . Far be it from us to deny that it is absolutely necessary that in some shape or other he should be familiarized with what are afterwards to be his great duties ...
... consider a vital point , and shall therefore dwell upon it at some length . Far be it from us to deny that it is absolutely necessary that in some shape or other he should be familiarized with what are afterwards to be his great duties ...
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... consider what is the great object of sending a youth to a theological college , -that it is to fit him for a whole life of labor -to fit him for engaging with efficiency for a period somewhere be- tween twenty and thirty years ( for ...
... consider what is the great object of sending a youth to a theological college , -that it is to fit him for a whole life of labor -to fit him for engaging with efficiency for a period somewhere be- tween twenty and thirty years ( for ...
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Page 181 - Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, That they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Page 441 - Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting.
Page 675 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Page 186 - The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice ; the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Page 606 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain, Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 496 - A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench : He shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Page 419 - The King of France with twenty thousand men, • Marched up the hill, and then marched down again.
Page 295 - I am certain she was not joined with good works, and left the court in a staggering condition: Charity came to the King's feet, and seemed to cover the multitude of sins her sisters had committed; in some...
Page 368 - ... clear as the sun, fair as the moon, and terrible as an army with banners...
Page 123 - ... truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation : others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.