Lectures, Delivered at Bowdoin College: And Occasional SermonsJoseph Griffin, 1822 - 411 pages |
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... believe , with fervent prayer for Divine illu- mination . ers . His sermons , though free from all elaborate display of learn- ing , were written with uncommon care and accuracy . Establish- ed in a country village , he found it ...
... believe , with fervent prayer for Divine illu- mination . ers . His sermons , though free from all elaborate display of learn- ing , were written with uncommon care and accuracy . Establish- ed in a country village , he found it ...
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... believe it , I think , there can be little doubt . To give pleasure , is allowed to be the grand aim of poetry . Extensively to accomplish this end , it must contain nothing , offensive to the prevailing opinion . A poet , who writes ...
... believe it , I think , there can be little doubt . To give pleasure , is allowed to be the grand aim of poetry . Extensively to accomplish this end , it must contain nothing , offensive to the prevailing opinion . A poet , who writes ...
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... believe , introduced by in- sensible degrees . After the death of any one , who had been a benefactor to society , or had acquired a powerful in- fluence , either over the affections or fears of his contempo- raries , it was natural ...
... believe , introduced by in- sensible degrees . After the death of any one , who had been a benefactor to society , or had acquired a powerful in- fluence , either over the affections or fears of his contempo- raries , it was natural ...
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... Siberia . In the tenets and prac- saith he , we may see a faint outline indoos . They believe in one God , ; but they think , that he pays no at- men , leaving the government of the would be unreasonable to doubt . Who can question ,
... Siberia . In the tenets and prac- saith he , we may see a faint outline indoos . They believe in one God , ; but they think , that he pays no at- men , leaving the government of the would be unreasonable to doubt . Who can question ,
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... believe on a Supreme God , who created the world , though not all things pertaining to it . * This Supreme Being is said to have created a goddess , called Bawaney , who was the mother of three subaltern deities . Brimha , or Bramha ...
... believe on a Supreme God , who created the world , though not all things pertaining to it . * This Supreme Being is said to have created a goddess , called Bawaney , who was the mother of three subaltern deities . Brimha , or Bramha ...
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Page 176 - Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
Page 323 - And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Page 252 - ... it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands, to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : 44 where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 169 - ... backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful ; who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do. them.
Page 298 - And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
Page 377 - To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me on my throne ; even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father on His throne.
Page 142 - If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world,
Page 141 - But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
Page 97 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Page 166 - And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.