The Christian Examiner, Volume 87Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1869 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... less widely known . Not a few of the ablest editors in the United States , from Carl Schurz downward , are Germans who write as vig- orously and as gracefully in the English tongue as in their own . But this rule does not work in both ...
... less widely known . Not a few of the ablest editors in the United States , from Carl Schurz downward , are Germans who write as vig- orously and as gracefully in the English tongue as in their own . But this rule does not work in both ...
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... less knowledge of German than of Greek , and most of those who went into raptures over Goethe and Schiller , knew these poets only through imperfect translations . To have suggested such a study as suitable in the schools , even of the ...
... less knowledge of German than of Greek , and most of those who went into raptures over Goethe and Schiller , knew these poets only through imperfect translations . To have suggested such a study as suitable in the schools , even of the ...
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... less real that it is indirect , and that some of the ablest of these freethinkers are themselves not German scholars . The German spirit has found entrance , and has established itself in our methods of persuasion and appeal . Such ...
... less real that it is indirect , and that some of the ablest of these freethinkers are themselves not German scholars . The German spirit has found entrance , and has established itself in our methods of persuasion and appeal . Such ...
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... less con- fidently urged . It was said that the Germans were a vision- ary people , held " the empire of the air , " were dreamy and unpractical , and that there was no satisfaction in attempting to follow their flights and vagaries ...
... less con- fidently urged . It was said that the Germans were a vision- ary people , held " the empire of the air , " were dreamy and unpractical , and that there was no satisfaction in attempting to follow their flights and vagaries ...
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... less firm tread upon the earth , because they know the way of the air ; and their aeronauts come down as easily as they go up . The camel evoked from the depths of conscious- ness is quite as genuine a specimen of the race as the stupid ...
... less firm tread upon the earth , because they know the way of the air ; and their aeronauts come down as easily as they go up . The camel evoked from the depths of conscious- ness is quite as genuine a specimen of the race as the stupid ...
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Page 318 - ... his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts.
Page 136 - There shall never be any bond slavery, villeinage, or captivity amongst us unless it be lawful captives taken in just wars, and such strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold to us.
Page 79 - And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, Neither reprove after the hearing of his ears : But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, And reprove with equity for the meek of the earth...
Page 294 - O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools and the learned clan ; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
Page 81 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your GOD. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Page 303 - The time of their visitation will come, and that inevitably; for, it is always true, that if the fathers have eaten sour grapes, the children's teeth are set on edge.
Page 78 - And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.
Page 85 - Consider, my children, what that signifies, he finished them in six days. The meaning of it is this; that in six thousand years the Lord God will bring all things to an end. For with him one day is a thousand years; as himself testifieth, saying, Behold this day shall be as a thousand years.
Page 78 - I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: but my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
Page 354 - ARMS AND ARMOUR IN ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES ; also a descriptive Notice of Modern Weapons. By CHARLES BOUTELL. Translated from the French of MP LACOMBE.