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Page 18
It consisted in the exact and exhaustive mastery of certain limited sections of
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 .
It consisted in the exact and exhaustive mastery of certain limited sections of
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 .
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But whatever may be the passing fashion , the collective judgment of the ages
has settled it that the permanent state of mental hesitancy and indecision , in
whatever sphere of thought and action , is and must be a false condition 24 ...
But whatever may be the passing fashion , the collective judgment of the ages
has settled it that the permanent state of mental hesitancy and indecision , in
whatever sphere of thought and action , is and must be a false condition 24 ...
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The possessor of the gospel is answerable for more than the Jew , and the Jew
than the Gentile ; but every man within his sphere is held responsible by his
Maker for accepting the divine truth that lay fairly before him . It will also be
understood ...
The possessor of the gospel is answerable for more than the Jew , and the Jew
than the Gentile ; but every man within his sphere is held responsible by his
Maker for accepting the divine truth that lay fairly before him . It will also be
understood ...
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And in the sphere of moral delinquencies , of a man mature in age and sane in
mind the court never inquires , Did he know the exact law or penalty ? The
murderer might plead that he had never read the statute , or that he supposed the
...
And in the sphere of moral delinquencies , of a man mature in age and sane in
mind the court never inquires , Did he know the exact law or penalty ? The
murderer might plead that he had never read the statute , or that he supposed the
...
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So in the higher sphere they that have been bent on doing all they could have
commonly wrought far more than they thought . The perfume of one alabaster box
has filled the air of Christendom for eighteen hundred years . Nothing in this
world ...
So in the higher sphere they that have been bent on doing all they could have
commonly wrought far more than they thought . The perfume of one alabaster box
has filled the air of Christendom for eighteen hundred years . Nothing in this
world ...
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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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Anniversary Addresses |
| Author | Samuel Colcord Bartlett |
| Publisher | Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Company, 1894 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 517 pages |
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