Quarterly Review, Volume 24John Murray, 1821 |
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... kind of godly gossip , and to esteem religion itself as a thing rather to be talked about than to be car- ried into practice . Of the extraordinary man , to whose labours so much good and so much evil may be attributed , the history had ...
... kind of godly gossip , and to esteem religion itself as a thing rather to be talked about than to be car- ried into practice . Of the extraordinary man , to whose labours so much good and so much evil may be attributed , the history had ...
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... kind an accurate picture of their hero . In some of them the heart was wanting to understand his worth , or the will to do it jus- tice : others did not possess sufficient freedom or strength of intel- lect to perceive wherein he was ...
... kind an accurate picture of their hero . In some of them the heart was wanting to understand his worth , or the will to do it jus- tice : others did not possess sufficient freedom or strength of intel- lect to perceive wherein he was ...
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... kind of miracle , had some tendency to make the child , so strangely saved , a greater favourite than the others , and to foster in his own mind an idea , which early possessed him , that he was destined for something wonderful . It is ...
... kind of miracle , had some tendency to make the child , so strangely saved , a greater favourite than the others , and to foster in his own mind an idea , which early possessed him , that he was destined for something wonderful . It is ...
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... kind , is the more remarkable because such supposed manifestations of supernatural agency are precisely those which , however difficult to counterfeit in themselves , are , at all events , less difficult than most others which might be ...
... kind , is the more remarkable because such supposed manifestations of supernatural agency are precisely those which , however difficult to counterfeit in themselves , are , at all events , less difficult than most others which might be ...
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... kind , to which John Wesley added a remarkable plainness of dress , and an unusual manner of wearing his long flaxen hair , should not attract the notice , and draw down the indis- criminating ridicule of the young men by whom they were ...
... kind , to which John Wesley added a remarkable plainness of dress , and an unusual manner of wearing his long flaxen hair , should not attract the notice , and draw down the indis- criminating ridicule of the young men by whom they were ...
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Page 42 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him,
Page 493 - Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and -with songs, with tabret and with harp...
Page 42 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 471 - His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Page 495 - The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Page 330 - Ferdinand' Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.
Page 42 - Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
Page 299 - God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 162 - His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.