The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1840 |
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... truth of these observations . On the other hand , we have tasked our memory , and tasked it in vain , to supply a single instance of an illiterate man attaining and keeping a position in which he could by possibility be extensively ...
... truth of these observations . On the other hand , we have tasked our memory , and tasked it in vain , to supply a single instance of an illiterate man attaining and keeping a position in which he could by possibility be extensively ...
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... truth . ' All this is nothing to the purpose ; these things are not taught him because he is to teach them to others ; but first , for the sake of that discipline of mind which they impart ; to develop his faculties , and to enable him ...
... truth . ' All this is nothing to the purpose ; these things are not taught him because he is to teach them to others ; but first , for the sake of that discipline of mind which they impart ; to develop his faculties , and to enable him ...
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... Truth . In reviewing the leading writers on the part of ecclesiastical establishments , and those who are marshalled against them , it is impossible not to be struck with the opposite positions which the former assume , and which are ...
... Truth . In reviewing the leading writers on the part of ecclesiastical establishments , and those who are marshalled against them , it is impossible not to be struck with the opposite positions which the former assume , and which are ...
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... truth , and their physical appetite for the necessaries or the luxuries of life , there is no resemblance . The want of food creates the appetite of hunger , and hunger seeks to be appeased ; but ignorance creates no appetite for ...
... truth , and their physical appetite for the necessaries or the luxuries of life , there is no resemblance . The want of food creates the appetite of hunger , and hunger seeks to be appeased ; but ignorance creates no appetite for ...
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... truth is , that she is smitten ; ' her form , though not wholly destitute of life , is deathlike and powerless ; and our fear is , that , unless her exactions speedily cease , she may be driven out from the presence of our Mas- ter ...
... truth is , that she is smitten ; ' her form , though not wholly destitute of life , is deathlike and powerless ; and our fear is , that , unless her exactions speedily cease , she may be driven out from the presence of our Mas- ter ...
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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.