Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 33James Miller, 1843 |
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... interest in refined and cultivated intellects , controversies about verbal distinctions and trifles , dialectic subtleties , and barren questions of scholastic theology and metaphysics . Besides , it introduces us to many disgusting ...
... interest in refined and cultivated intellects , controversies about verbal distinctions and trifles , dialectic subtleties , and barren questions of scholastic theology and metaphysics . Besides , it introduces us to many disgusting ...
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... interest , regarding the study of it as fitted neither to gratify a liberal curiosity , to purify the feelings , or add to the stores of intellectual affluence , they should have abandoned it for fields of inquiry and thought , which ...
... interest , regarding the study of it as fitted neither to gratify a liberal curiosity , to purify the feelings , or add to the stores of intellectual affluence , they should have abandoned it for fields of inquiry and thought , which ...
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... interest than the work of any professedly Christian historian relating to the same period . We possess no history of religion which is entitled to rank as a standard work . Nor is there any prospect of a speedy remedy . The task of ...
... interest than the work of any professedly Christian historian relating to the same period . We possess no history of religion which is entitled to rank as a standard work . Nor is there any prospect of a speedy remedy . The task of ...
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... interests of man . It is his province to lay his hand on that many - stringed instru- ment , the human heart , to control its various moods , and awaken all its sweeter melodies . He is brought into contact with all sorts of minds , and ...
... interests of man . It is his province to lay his hand on that many - stringed instru- ment , the human heart , to control its various moods , and awaken all its sweeter melodies . He is brought into contact with all sorts of minds , and ...
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... interest for us at the present time , and as showing that the difficulties , which now perplex the in- quirer , are such as have been felt in other ages , and which , at certain periods of the world , and in certain intellectual states ...
... interest for us at the present time , and as showing that the difficulties , which now perplex the in- quirer , are such as have been felt in other ages , and which , at certain periods of the world , and in certain intellectual states ...
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Page 72 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
Page 244 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...
Page 242 - Comfort ? comfort scorn'd of devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof.
Page 244 - I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime ? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time...
Page 242 - And an eye shall vex thee, looking ancient kindness on thy pain. Turn thee, turn thee on thy pillow: get thee to thy rest again. Nay, but Nature brings thee solace; for a tender voice will cry.
Page 194 - Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Page 192 - And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate ; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.
Page 120 - I am to be gathered unto my people : bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of "Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying-place.
Page 240 - In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's • breast ; In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Page 192 - Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. 3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate, from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand ; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.