The North American Review, Volume 97Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1863 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... religion . In regard to the ethical influence of a writer , we have to distinguish two modes in which he acts on others : first , the teaching which he unconsciously imparts , the silent but potent effluence of his character , of his ...
... religion . In regard to the ethical influence of a writer , we have to distinguish two modes in which he acts on others : first , the teaching which he unconsciously imparts , the silent but potent effluence of his character , of his ...
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... religion which makes it a mere guard to keep men from perdition . He says of that vulgar morality which deduces all obligation from self - interest : " I compare this cursed exaltation of souls , merely from low motives , with the ...
... religion which makes it a mere guard to keep men from perdition . He says of that vulgar morality which deduces all obligation from self - interest : " I compare this cursed exaltation of souls , merely from low motives , with the ...
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... religious symbolism . A stroll in the open air was to him as walking down the aisle of a sublimer church , and he asked himself : " Dost thou enter pure into this vast , guiltless tem- ple ? Dost thou bring no venomous passion into this ...
... religious symbolism . A stroll in the open air was to him as walking down the aisle of a sublimer church , and he asked himself : " Dost thou enter pure into this vast , guiltless tem- ple ? Dost thou bring no venomous passion into this ...
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... religion . In 1569 Charles , sixth Earl of Westmoreland , and the Earl of North- umberland , concocted at Brancepeth Castle the Rising in the North . " The Dun Bull " of the Nevilles was again " raised on high , " and joined with the ...
... religion . In 1569 Charles , sixth Earl of Westmoreland , and the Earl of North- umberland , concocted at Brancepeth Castle the Rising in the North . " The Dun Bull " of the Nevilles was again " raised on high , " and joined with the ...
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... religion and for the liberties of Europe , under the walls of Maestricht . " The fortunes of this family have been the theme of another eloquent passage . It was in the Oxford Peerage Case , which arose in 1626 , on the death of the ...
... religion and for the liberties of Europe , under the walls of Maestricht . " The fortunes of this family have been the theme of another eloquent passage . It was in the Oxford Peerage Case , which arose in 1626 , on the death of the ...
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