The Dial, Volume 1Moncure Daniel Conway 1860 - Literature - 778 pages |
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... idea of a supernatural gift of words from the Creator must be excluded , by the frequent imperfections of words in expressing the true nature of their objects . For example , the word used for the heavens in the Old Testament ...
... idea of a supernatural gift of words from the Creator must be excluded , by the frequent imperfections of words in expressing the true nature of their objects . For example , the word used for the heavens in the Old Testament ...
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... idea runs against , or to meet the mind , may be compared with the German einfallen , in which the superior introversion of the Teuton finds that the idea falls into him . Compare also the English imagina- tion with einbildungskraft , a ...
... idea runs against , or to meet the mind , may be compared with the German einfallen , in which the superior introversion of the Teuton finds that the idea falls into him . Compare also the English imagina- tion with einbildungskraft , a ...
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... idea of royalty it was he that said , " A king is only the first of sub- jects ; that is , he should feel himself as much under a Higher Law , as his subjects are under his Law . When Peace came , he gave the corn which had been ...
... idea of royalty it was he that said , " A king is only the first of sub- jects ; that is , he should feel himself as much under a Higher Law , as his subjects are under his Law . When Peace came , he gave the corn which had been ...
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... idea of religion is a bond ; it is an exaction , a chain , a yoke . It is not too much to say that in this , its real significance , Religion had been carried to its utmost extent by the nations before the coming of Christ ; our model ...
... idea of religion is a bond ; it is an exaction , a chain , a yoke . It is not too much to say that in this , its real significance , Religion had been carried to its utmost extent by the nations before the coming of Christ ; our model ...
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... idea of Love . It is an old saying , " Whoso loveth , knoweth God ; " but the very nature of Religion implies obligations , bonds , demands , which Love most of all hates . Love has no tie but its own attractions ; and can not be ...
... idea of Love . It is an old saying , " Whoso loveth , knoweth God ; " but the very nature of Religion implies obligations , bonds , demands , which Love most of all hates . Love has no tie but its own attractions ; and can not be ...
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Page 53 - But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh ; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Page 337 - Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out ; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there : and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Page 88 - And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Page 394 - Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him. But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Page 213 - From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed and be raised again the third day.
Page 393 - Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee : it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
Page 271 - They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick ; but go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice : for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Page 71 - JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others, she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed: How all our copper had gone for his service! Rags — were they purple, his heart had been proud!
Page 269 - Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
Page 54 - For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.