Eight Historical and Critical Lectures on the BibleA. Tompkins, 1846 - 464 pages |
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... thoughts in such a manner as to have them readily understood . If any , therefore , are disposed to be over - nice and hypercritical in reference to the drapery or garb in which the statements and sugges- tions of this contemplated ...
... thoughts in such a manner as to have them readily understood . If any , therefore , are disposed to be over - nice and hypercritical in reference to the drapery or garb in which the statements and sugges- tions of this contemplated ...
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... thought and relieve the dryness of detail , will be mere- ly the spontaneous utterance of the emotions of sublimity and grandeur , which may be awakened by the ruins a- mong which she shall wander , the monuments of past wisdom and ...
... thought and relieve the dryness of detail , will be mere- ly the spontaneous utterance of the emotions of sublimity and grandeur , which may be awakened by the ruins a- mong which she shall wander , the monuments of past wisdom and ...
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... faculty of Thought , which is capa- ble of being expanded to infinity , is his chief glory . It is this which assimilates him in his nature to the Deity . 1 It is this which is breathed upon by the LECTURES ON THE BIBLE .
... faculty of Thought , which is capa- ble of being expanded to infinity , is his chief glory . It is this which assimilates him in his nature to the Deity . 1 It is this which is breathed upon by the LECTURES ON THE BIBLE .
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... thought , therefore , which makes the man . All else is but the environment — the garment in which the man is enrobed , or the edifice he lives in . If he were alone in the world , having no occasion for the society of others , or in ...
... thought , therefore , which makes the man . All else is but the environment — the garment in which the man is enrobed , or the edifice he lives in . If he were alone in the world , having no occasion for the society of others , or in ...
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... thoughts . Chaste , holy and benign senti- ments may be inscribed in bad penmanship , on coarse , unsightly paper ... thought ; according to the amount of information it con- veys , or the aid it affords us as a manual of reference ...
... thoughts . Chaste , holy and benign senti- ments may be inscribed in bad penmanship , on coarse , unsightly paper ... thought ; according to the amount of information it con- veys , or the aid it affords us as a manual of reference ...
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Page 192 - And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
Page 234 - And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves : but he was asleep. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us : we perish.
Page 321 - And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying ; Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God...
Page 226 - And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: for she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
Page 229 - But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters
Page 228 - And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him and saying, "Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
Page 286 - And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Page 217 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves ; No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suflereth not to live. And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm ; howbeit, they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly.
Page 328 - THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass ; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John...
Page 315 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.