Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1852 |
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... never meet the approbation of the censors and guides of public opinion . Such as wished for a new great man had a superstition of the last one in their minds . They expected the new to be just like the old , but he is altogether unlike ...
... never meet the approbation of the censors and guides of public opinion . Such as wished for a new great man had a superstition of the last one in their minds . They expected the new to be just like the old , but he is altogether unlike ...
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... never saw , felt , nor tasted immortal life ; he had no belief therein . There was once a heathen Sadducee who said , " My right arm is my God ! " There was likewise a party of Come - outers . They despaired of the State and the Church ...
... never saw , felt , nor tasted immortal life ; he had no belief therein . There was once a heathen Sadducee who said , " My right arm is my God ! " There was likewise a party of Come - outers . They despaired of the State and the Church ...
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... never been blest by him at all . Words for a nation , an age , a sect , are of use in their place , yet they soon come to nought . But as he spoke for eternity , his truths ride on the wings of time ; as he spoke for man , they are ...
... never been blest by him at all . Words for a nation , an age , a sect , are of use in their place , yet they soon come to nought . But as he spoke for eternity , his truths ride on the wings of time ; as he spoke for man , they are ...
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... never the cunning , neither then , neither now . Jesus looked to God for his truth , his great doctrines not his own , private , personal , depending on his idiosyncracies , and therefore only subjectively true , but God's , universal ...
... never the cunning , neither then , neither now . Jesus looked to God for his truth , his great doctrines not his own , private , personal , depending on his idiosyncracies , and therefore only subjectively true , but God's , universal ...
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... never yet transcended . This then was the relation of Jesus to his age : the secta- rians cursed him ; cursed him by their gods ; rejected him , abused him , persecuted him ; sought his life . Yes , they condemned him in the name of God ...
... never yet transcended . This then was the relation of Jesus to his age : the secta- rians cursed him ; cursed him by their gods ; rejected him , abused him , persecuted him ; sought his life . Yes , they condemned him in the name of God ...
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Page 50 - And I looked, and there was none to help; And I wondered that there was none to uphold : Therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; And my fury, it upheld me.
Page 333 - Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned adorned the most.
Page 168 - Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt, The Douglass in red herrings ; And noble name and cultured land, Palace, and park, and vassal band. Are powerless to the notes of hand Of Rothschild or the Barings.
Page 71 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms— the day Battle's magnificently stern array! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse,— friend, foe,— in one red burial blent!
Page 70 - She filled the helm, and back she hied, And with surprise and joy espied A monk supporting Marmion's head ; A pious man whom duty brought To dubious verge of battle fought, To shrive the dying, bless the dead. Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave, And, as she stooped his brow to lave — " Is it the hand of Clare," he said, "Or injured Constance, bathes my head?
Page 28 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Page 127 - My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust ; who subdueth my people under me.
Page 28 - For humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into history's golden urn.
Page 8 - We know that God spake unto Moses ; but as for this fellow, we know not whence he is.