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Page 22
The glorious light of a free civilization , struggling through the gloom of the middle
ages , as the splendors of the departed sun stream up behind the forests of the
west , still reaches us from republican antiquity . The history , the constitutions ...
The glorious light of a free civilization , struggling through the gloom of the middle
ages , as the splendors of the departed sun stream up behind the forests of the
west , still reaches us from republican antiquity . The history , the constitutions ...
Page 73
How , again , shall he be able to discover the errors and mistakes , the follies and
crimes , into which imperfect men are liable to fall , even under the light of the
gospel , and the means of avoidance or rescue ? How shall he show clearly ...
How , again , shall he be able to discover the errors and mistakes , the follies and
crimes , into which imperfect men are liable to fall , even under the light of the
gospel , and the means of avoidance or rescue ? How shall he show clearly ...
Page 74
Enter the halls of judicature , and notice there the voice of truth and fervor guiding
ignorance and doubt into light and knowledge , subjecting prejudice to reason ,
and confounding all the arts of sophistry and error , while it yields protection to ...
Enter the halls of judicature , and notice there the voice of truth and fervor guiding
ignorance and doubt into light and knowledge , subjecting prejudice to reason ,
and confounding all the arts of sophistry and error , while it yields protection to ...
Page 76
Its province is to take the plant living , indeed , but undeveloped , unformed , and
weak , and by the judicious and assiduous application of water , light , and air , by
the timely direction of every shoot , and the removal of every needless stem ...
Its province is to take the plant living , indeed , but undeveloped , unformed , and
weak , and by the judicious and assiduous application of water , light , and air , by
the timely direction of every shoot , and the removal of every needless stem ...
Page 79
Oh ! would that the children of this world were not here so much wiser in their
generation than the children of light . Surely , his six months diligent culture of his
voice , with half - shorn head in a cave , was pot misjudged policy , wasted time ...
Oh ! would that the children of this world were not here so much wiser in their
generation than the children of light . Surely , his six months diligent culture of his
voice , with half - shorn head in a cave , was pot misjudged policy , wasted time ...
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