The New Englander, Volume 6A.H. Maltby, 1848 - Criticism |
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... appear- ance which every body sees through ? In this particular the oldest churches that we can remember looked better than their more ambitious succes- sors . The pews were of pine , clear stuff ' carefully selected , not disguised ...
... appear- ance which every body sees through ? In this particular the oldest churches that we can remember looked better than their more ambitious succes- sors . The pews were of pine , clear stuff ' carefully selected , not disguised ...
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... appears to be a good man , to avoid saying he is a poor preacher . The effect of beauty is something more positive and pleasurable . While this is admitted , some still question the existence of any proper stand- ard , setting aside ...
... appears to be a good man , to avoid saying he is a poor preacher . The effect of beauty is something more positive and pleasurable . While this is admitted , some still question the existence of any proper stand- ard , setting aside ...
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... point of disregarding this distinction as far as possible , but their notion savors of whim or prejudice . There is no good reason why an edifice should not appear to be what it is in fact . 1848. ] 15 Church Building .
... point of disregarding this distinction as far as possible , but their notion savors of whim or prejudice . There is no good reason why an edifice should not appear to be what it is in fact . 1848. ] 15 Church Building .
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not appear to be what it is in fact . A church is devoted to a peculiar use , and therefore it should have a peculiar aspect . It ought to desig- nate itself to the eye . Even com . mon observers are not satisfied with a building which ...
not appear to be what it is in fact . A church is devoted to a peculiar use , and therefore it should have a peculiar aspect . It ought to desig- nate itself to the eye . Even com . mon observers are not satisfied with a building which ...
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... appear to be so . For the same reason it is a fault , as we have be- fore remarked , when the steeple of a church seems to rest on the roof instead of rising as a solid tower from the ground . The roof may possibly be strong enough to ...
... appear to be so . For the same reason it is a fault , as we have be- fore remarked , when the steeple of a church seems to rest on the roof instead of rising as a solid tower from the ground . The roof may possibly be strong enough to ...
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Page 229 - Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
Page 69 - For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 226 - Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Page 186 - I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Page 43 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness ; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity ; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 520 - Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified ; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
Page vii - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Page 439 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Page 141 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 190 - There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.