The Christian Examiner, Volume 73Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1862 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... nature of this peculiarity of the Bible ? And next , what are the specific rules of interpretation to be adapted or applied to it ? We deal with these questions in a way most satisfactory to our own minds , by opening the New Testament ...
... nature of this peculiarity of the Bible ? And next , what are the specific rules of interpretation to be adapted or applied to it ? We deal with these questions in a way most satisfactory to our own minds , by opening the New Testament ...
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... - timony for old truth . If our fathers had good grounds for the tenets which they introduced into their creeds , the subject- matter of those creeds is happily of such a nature 62 Heresy and Heretics in the Church of England . [ July ,
... - timony for old truth . If our fathers had good grounds for the tenets which they introduced into their creeds , the subject- matter of those creeds is happily of such a nature 62 Heresy and Heretics in the Church of England . [ July ,
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matter of those creeds is happily of such a nature as will allow us , in putting the question to a test , to establish our own faith by the same and by additional reasons . But the weak frights and the strong prejudices entertained ...
matter of those creeds is happily of such a nature as will allow us , in putting the question to a test , to establish our own faith by the same and by additional reasons . But the weak frights and the strong prejudices entertained ...
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... nature whose light comes through a denser medium . Hence , although the first requi- site for a refined and enlightened taste is a keen native sus- ceptibility to the true and beautiful , to be freely and sponta- neously indulged ...
... nature whose light comes through a denser medium . Hence , although the first requi- site for a refined and enlightened taste is a keen native sus- ceptibility to the true and beautiful , to be freely and sponta- neously indulged ...
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... nature and art lies in their infinite variety , whereby every soul is fed according to its peculiar power of appreciation . The taste one displays is his public confession of the quality and cultivation of his mind . It helps to make up ...
... nature and art lies in their infinite variety , whereby every soul is fed according to its peculiar power of appreciation . The taste one displays is his public confession of the quality and cultivation of his mind . It helps to make up ...
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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