Anniversary AddressesCongregational Sunday School and Publishing Company, 1894 - 517 pages |
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... knowledge and thought , as the gymnastic for all other spheres and toils . At Oxford , not long ago , four years were spent in mastering some fourteen books . What- ever may be our criticism of the process , we may not deny its singular ...
... knowledge and thought , as the gymnastic for all other spheres and toils . At Oxford , not long ago , four years were spent in mastering some fourteen books . What- ever may be our criticism of the process , we may not deny its singular ...
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... knowledge that cannot be overlooked . Men do not know best what they know only in its isolation . Even Kant offset his metaphysics by lecturing on geography ; and Niebuhr , the historian , struggled hard and well to keep his equilibrium ...
... knowledge that cannot be overlooked . Men do not know best what they know only in its isolation . Even Kant offset his metaphysics by lecturing on geography ; and Niebuhr , the historian , struggled hard and well to keep his equilibrium ...
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... knowledge , it also empha- sizes the necessity of a scholarship that has its outlook toward all the vast provinces of reading and thought . It cannot conquer them , but it can be on treaty relations with them . The tendency of modern ...
... knowledge , it also empha- sizes the necessity of a scholarship that has its outlook toward all the vast provinces of reading and thought . It cannot conquer them , but it can be on treaty relations with them . The tendency of modern ...
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... knowledge . It takes force to handle weight . Some men seem to know more than is healthy for them . It does not make muscle , but becomes plethoric , drop- sical , adipose , or adipocere . Better to have thought more and acquired less ...
... knowledge . It takes force to handle weight . Some men seem to know more than is healthy for them . It does not make muscle , but becomes plethoric , drop- sical , adipose , or adipocere . Better to have thought more and acquired less ...
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... knowledge . It requires a first - class mind to carry a vast load of scientific facts . Hence the many eminent observers who have been the most illogical of reasoners . What a contrast between Hugh Miller and his friend Francia ; the ...
... knowledge . It requires a first - class mind to carry a vast load of scientific facts . Hence the many eminent observers who have been the most illogical of reasoners . What a contrast between Hugh Miller and his friend Francia ; the ...
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Page 495 - JESUS, I my cross have taken, All to leave and follow Thee ; Naked, poor, despised, forsaken, Thou, from hence, my All shalt be.
Page 404 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.
Page 461 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Page 136 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Page 185 - Within the soul a faculty abides, That with interpositions, which would hide And darken, so can deal, that they become Contingencies of pomp ; and serve to exalt Her native brightness. As the ample moon, In the deep stillness of a summer even Rising behind a thick and lofty grove, Burns, like an unconsuming fire of light, In the green trees ; and, kindling on all sides Their leafy umbrage, turns the dusky veil Into a substance glorious as her own, Yea, with her own incorporated, by power Capacious...
Page 480 - And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Page 308 - Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in Thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh the truth in his heart.
Page 157 - O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 55 - And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.
Page 117 - And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do ; the heads of them were two hundred ; and all their brethren were at their commandment.