Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page xvi
... hard for Arch- bishop Laud or any high churchman to interfere . It was when John Cotton left his own pulpit and went up and down in England delivering week - day lectures that Laud and that set saw the danger of such voices crying aloud ...
... hard for Arch- bishop Laud or any high churchman to interfere . It was when John Cotton left his own pulpit and went up and down in England delivering week - day lectures that Laud and that set saw the danger of such voices crying aloud ...
Page xvii
... hard to discover one in the local authorities in English literature . Even in so careful and complete a book as Masson's " Life of Mil- ton , " which covers wonderfully well the Puritan history of most of the Seventeenth century , I ...
... hard to discover one in the local authorities in English literature . Even in so careful and complete a book as Masson's " Life of Mil- ton , " which covers wonderfully well the Puritan history of most of the Seventeenth century , I ...
Page 29
... the famous sentence of the New Testament : " Many are called , few chosen . " This appears a hard saying ; frequent are the endeavors to elude it , to attenuate its severity . But turn it THE MAJORITY AND THE REMNANT 29.
... the famous sentence of the New Testament : " Many are called , few chosen . " This appears a hard saying ; frequent are the endeavors to elude it , to attenuate its severity . But turn it THE MAJORITY AND THE REMNANT 29.
Page 44
... comfortable doctrine of the remnant , we must be capable of receiving also , and of holding fast , the hard doctrine of the unsoundness of the majority , and of the " certainty that the unsoundness of the majority , if it 44 MATTHEW ARNOLD.
... comfortable doctrine of the remnant , we must be capable of receiving also , and of holding fast , the hard doctrine of the unsoundness of the majority , and of the " certainty that the unsoundness of the majority , if it 44 MATTHEW ARNOLD.
Page 47
... hard but true doctrine of the sages and prophets , of the inexorable fatality of operation , in moral failure of the unsound majority , to impair and destroy States . But we will not talk or think of destruction for a State with such ...
... hard but true doctrine of the sages and prophets , of the inexorable fatality of operation , in moral failure of the unsound majority , to impair and destroy States . But we will not talk or think of destruction for a State with such ...
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