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... writing , and which the nature of the subject , the connection , and other circumstances determine . . . . For the most part the sacred writers are even careless of everything , except so to exhibit truth as to secure its influence on ...
... writing , and which the nature of the subject , the connection , and other circumstances determine . . . . For the most part the sacred writers are even careless of everything , except so to exhibit truth as to secure its influence on ...
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... writer of " Edwin of Deira . " Robert Browning comes nearer absolute originality than any living poet in our language . It is a rare power when possessed , though not a very special help to popularity , as he has proved . But if ...
... writer of " Edwin of Deira . " Robert Browning comes nearer absolute originality than any living poet in our language . It is a rare power when possessed , though not a very special help to popularity , as he has proved . But if ...
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... writer by a verse already quoted , the seeming sharpness of the comparison prov- ing too strong a temptation for his ... writes so , save Tennyson ? — - " See what a lovely shell , Small and pure 34 [ January , Another of Tennyson's Poems .
... writer by a verse already quoted , the seeming sharpness of the comparison prov- ing too strong a temptation for his ... writes so , save Tennyson ? — - " See what a lovely shell , Small and pure 34 [ January , Another of Tennyson's Poems .
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... write with a proper restraint ; but studying this volume , line by line , from beginning to end , and that with decidedly favorable prepossessions , we are pur- sued by a feeling that it has made its hero a kind of ecclesiasti- cal ...
... write with a proper restraint ; but studying this volume , line by line , from beginning to end , and that with decidedly favorable prepossessions , we are pur- sued by a feeling that it has made its hero a kind of ecclesiasti- cal ...
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... writing . His mill ground fine , and his bolting - cloths let very little bran through . He read upon the topics of his immediate study , rather than in a general way . To write his sermon on the Law of Paradise , he perused the whole ...
... writing . His mill ground fine , and his bolting - cloths let very little bran through . He read upon the topics of his immediate study , rather than in a general way . To write his sermon on the Law of Paradise , he perused the whole ...
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Page 181 - And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying ; Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God...
Page 575 - If his children forsake My law, and walk not in My judgments, if they break My statutes, and keep not My commandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless My lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer My faithfulness to fail.
Page 177 - But as then he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Page 655 - Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.
Page 177 - For it is written, that Abraham had two sons; the one by a bond-maid, the other by a freewoman.
Page 36 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee : Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
Page 514 - Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 88 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 31 - For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how God will bring them about ? Our planet is one, the suns are many, the world is wide. Shall I weep if a Poland fall ? shall I shriek if a Hungary fail ? Or an infant civilisation be ruled with rod or with knout ? I have not made the world, and He that made it will guide.
Page 30 - And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones, Is it peace or war ? better, war! loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones.