The Christian Examiner, Volume 73Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1862 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... successful reaction and the years of unavailing protest against the ultra - reformers . It was not worldly culture and learning , but the convent routine , which made Luther a Protestant . His tendency to melancholy and superstition had ...
... successful reaction and the years of unavailing protest against the ultra - reformers . It was not worldly culture and learning , but the convent routine , which made Luther a Protestant . His tendency to melancholy and superstition had ...
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... successful opposition to Rome was fully come . All the elements of opposition were ready . The old system of government by Emperor and Pope had been just far enough outgrown to become fettering . The German people had risen near enough ...
... successful opposition to Rome was fully come . All the elements of opposition were ready . The old system of government by Emperor and Pope had been just far enough outgrown to become fettering . The German people had risen near enough ...
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... successful attack on any assumed authority weakens the prestige of all such assumption . No new tyranny can be as firmly rooted as the old . Thus , within three centuries after Luther , another great thinker for the German people ...
... successful attack on any assumed authority weakens the prestige of all such assumption . No new tyranny can be as firmly rooted as the old . Thus , within three centuries after Luther , another great thinker for the German people ...
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... success . When the peasants had revolted against the oppressive aris- tocracy , though they were Luther's fellow - Protestants , and though he admitted the justice of their demands , which have since all been granted , he found himself ...
... success . When the peasants had revolted against the oppressive aris- tocracy , though they were Luther's fellow - Protestants , and though he admitted the justice of their demands , which have since all been granted , he found himself ...
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... success , and to estimate the manly qualities by which that success was won . The writers occupy such different positions , nationally and morally , that their different studies give us quite distinct points of observation . For ...
... success , and to estimate the manly qualities by which that success was won . The writers occupy such different positions , nationally and morally , that their different studies give us quite distinct points of observation . For ...
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Page 428 - The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing ; My bonds in thee are all determinate. For how do I hold thee but by thy granting ? And for that riches where is my deserving? The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting, And so my patent back again is swerving. Thyself thou...
Page 212 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 221 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 422 - A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; A man in hue, all 'hues' in his controlling, Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
Page 268 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it...
Page 431 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding .pale streams with heavenly alchemy...
Page 424 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate: For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 220 - When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friends, Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts ; Dash him to pieces ! . Cas.
Page 221 - And, sure, he is an honorable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
Page 222 - This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors