Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1852 |
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Theodore Parker. - strongly similar . Nay , this new great man , perhaps , begins by destroying much that the old one built up with tears and prayers . He shows , at first , the limitations and defects of the former great man ; calls in ...
Theodore Parker. - strongly similar . Nay , this new great man , perhaps , begins by destroying much that the old one built up with tears and prayers . He shows , at first , the limitations and defects of the former great man ; calls in ...
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... perhaps , you will say , for a party in the Church or the State to have no such ideas , but they had not even a plausible substitute for such ideas . They seemed to have no faith in man , in his divine nature , his power of improvement ...
... perhaps , you will say , for a party in the Church or the State to have no such ideas , but they had not even a plausible substitute for such ideas . They seemed to have no faith in man , in his divine nature , his power of improvement ...
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... Perhaps both would be mistaken . 66 a gluttonous So it was then . All these three classes of men , impris- oned in their prejudices and superstitions , were hostile . The Pharisees said , " We know that God spake unto Moses ; but as for ...
... Perhaps both would be mistaken . 66 a gluttonous So it was then . All these three classes of men , impris- oned in their prejudices and superstitions , were hostile . The Pharisees said , " We know that God spake unto Moses ; but as for ...
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... perhaps , at least , have honored him in their way . He spoke for none of these . Why should they honor or even tolerate him ? It were strange had they done so . Was it through any fault or deficiency of Jesus that these men refused him ...
... perhaps , at least , have honored him in their way . He spoke for none of these . Why should they honor or even tolerate him ? It were strange had they done so . Was it through any fault or deficiency of Jesus that these men refused him ...
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... perhaps . No doubt the better for us that he insisted on none . He knew they were not religion . The men of Galilee did not need theology . The youngest scribe in the humblest theological school at Jerusalem , if such a thing were in ...
... perhaps . No doubt the better for us that he insisted on none . He knew they were not religion . The men of Galilee did not need theology . The youngest scribe in the humblest theological school at Jerusalem , if such a thing were in ...
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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.