Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3; Volume 38O. Everett, 1845 |
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... light , more wonderful than the electric fire ; some- thing which would explain all , spread a new light over all the fields of knowledge , and unfold the universal plan in new order and beauty ; with what eagerness would he examine ...
... light , more wonderful than the electric fire ; some- thing which would explain all , spread a new light over all the fields of knowledge , and unfold the universal plan in new order and beauty ; with what eagerness would he examine ...
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... Light . In infi- nite streams they forever flow from that one Source . Surely this cannot be believed , if prayer and praise are irksome . We would even that we could bring back some- thing of the ancient reverence for God ; something ...
... Light . In infi- nite streams they forever flow from that one Source . Surely this cannot be believed , if prayer and praise are irksome . We would even that we could bring back some- thing of the ancient reverence for God ; something ...
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... light . Prayer too is an end . The adoring contemplation of God is the sublimest point of human attainment : and this , not because he is God , the Sovereign , the Ruler , but because he is the sum of all wisdom , goodness , perfection ...
... light . Prayer too is an end . The adoring contemplation of God is the sublimest point of human attainment : and this , not because he is God , the Sovereign , the Ruler , but because he is the sum of all wisdom , goodness , perfection ...
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... light ; that he should feel himself to be destitute and forlorn , to whom life , existence , earth , heaven , open their unbounded resources ; that there should be but an " aching void " in this crowding plenitude of blessings ; and ...
... light ; that he should feel himself to be destitute and forlorn , to whom life , existence , earth , heaven , open their unbounded resources ; that there should be but an " aching void " in this crowding plenitude of blessings ; and ...
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... lights " of the Asiatic church , as the Apostles John and Philip , and several martyrs whom he names , always observed the feast on the fourteenth day of the moon , whatever might be the day of the week . Seven of his relatives , he ...
... lights " of the Asiatic church , as the Apostles John and Philip , and several martyrs whom he names , always observed the feast on the fourteenth day of the moon , whatever might be the day of the week . Seven of his relatives , he ...
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Page 364 - Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse ; for the Lord hath bidden him. It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction, and that the Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day.
Page 219 - We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " ' So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. " ' Our very hopes belied our fears ; Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. " ' For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed ; — she had Another morn...
Page 214 - Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? »the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 219 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 101 - Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone ; And morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the pyramids...
Page 100 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Page 217 - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers And heavily in clouds brings on the day The great, th' important day
Page 219 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 99 - The league between virtue and nature engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice. The beautiful laws and substances of the world persecute and whip the traitor. He finds that things are arranged for truth and benefit, but there is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.
Page 111 - And it is yet far more evident, for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.