Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 33O. Everett, 1843 |
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... cause of the indifference and disgust alluded to has been the tasteless manner in which Ecclesiastical His- tory has usually been written , and the false principles which have governed the narrative . One of these is , that whatever ...
... cause of the indifference and disgust alluded to has been the tasteless manner in which Ecclesiastical His- tory has usually been written , and the false principles which have governed the narrative . One of these is , that whatever ...
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... version of Hal- lam ( Hist . Lit. II . 83 ) , with only a slight change , which fidelity to the original required . he has artfully thrown over his pictures , which constitutes 1842. ] 3 Causes of Indifference and Disgust .
... version of Hal- lam ( Hist . Lit. II . 83 ) , with only a slight change , which fidelity to the original required . he has artfully thrown over his pictures , which constitutes 1842. ] 3 Causes of Indifference and Disgust .
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... cause with them authority is everything ; and we must meet them on their own ground . It is often so in religious contro- versy . We are called on to prove that the sun shines in a clear day at noon , that black is black , and white is ...
... cause with them authority is everything ; and we must meet them on their own ground . It is often so in religious contro- versy . We are called on to prove that the sun shines in a clear day at noon , that black is black , and white is ...
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... causes a gentle ripple , and are then engulfed and for- gotten , or give place to others equally ephemeral . This has often happened , and will happen again , not in theology merely , but in other things ; and the result is to produce ...
... causes a gentle ripple , and are then engulfed and for- gotten , or give place to others equally ephemeral . This has often happened , and will happen again , not in theology merely , but in other things ; and the result is to produce ...
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... cause to regret his deficiencies , or his friends will for him . The present , surely , is not the period in which high culture can be dispensed with . Many of the questions of the day , questions in which not the theologian merely ...
... cause to regret his deficiencies , or his friends will for him . The present , surely , is not the period in which high culture can be dispensed with . Many of the questions of the day , questions in which not the theologian merely ...
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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 242 - I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair. What is that which I should turn to, lighting upon days like these? Every door is barr'd with gold, and opens but to • golden keys.
Page 241 - Is it well to wish thee happy? — having known me — to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine!
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 242 - Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn...
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 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 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.