The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 53Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1852 |
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... writer vary greatly from youth to age ? But the book of Isaiah ( as well as those of the prophets generally ) purports to contain all the writings of the prophet through a long series of years ; and on the very grounds on which portions ...
... writer vary greatly from youth to age ? But the book of Isaiah ( as well as those of the prophets generally ) purports to contain all the writings of the prophet through a long series of years ; and on the very grounds on which portions ...
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... writer subsequent to Moses would have put these details on record . Dr. Palfrey's theory as to the purpose with which Genesis was written is , we believe , original with him , is preeminently satisfactory , and invests the book with a ...
... writer subsequent to Moses would have put these details on record . Dr. Palfrey's theory as to the purpose with which Genesis was written is , we believe , original with him , is preeminently satisfactory , and invests the book with a ...
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... writer , with the spirit of whose works he had become penetrated , — all this is highly probable . But it is in the ... writers express or indicate their own actual opinions . Now , Dr. Palfrey's error , as we think , is in not ...
... writer , with the spirit of whose works he had become penetrated , — all this is highly probable . But it is in the ... writers express or indicate their own actual opinions . Now , Dr. Palfrey's error , as we think , is in not ...
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... writer , whoever he was , was well acquainted with the scenery and natural objects of Arabia and Egypt , for these fur- nish the commonplaces of his poetical imagery . He appears also to have at least heard of the river Jordan ; but ...
... writer , whoever he was , was well acquainted with the scenery and natural objects of Arabia and Egypt , for these fur- nish the commonplaces of his poetical imagery . He appears also to have at least heard of the river Jordan ; but ...
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... writers in an age so recent , as compared with that of the production of the work , carries with it but little ... writer subsequent to the period when Jehovah , under that name , gave the people a law , and adopted them for his ...
... writers in an age so recent , as compared with that of the production of the work , carries with it but little ... writer subsequent to the period when Jehovah , under that name , gave the people a law , and adopted them for his ...
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Page 53 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
Page 107 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing : for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 334 - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the humane conceits) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it.
Page 363 - GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. "We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers. The ore within the mountain mine Requireth none to grow ; Nor doth it need the lotus-flower To make the river flow.
Page 413 - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy — scooped out By help of dreams, can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our minds, into the mind of man, My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Page 53 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire. Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Page 171 - For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Page 333 - The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principal source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those...
Page 174 - For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Page 171 - Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.