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... practices with horror . * Life , I. p . 6 . + Doblado's Letters , p . 81 . § Life , I. p . 8 . Ibid . p . 10 . Ibid . At fourteen , he was sent to study philosophy with 2 BLANCO WHITE . Grounds of a personal interest in.
... practices with horror . * Life , I. p . 6 . + Doblado's Letters , p . 81 . § Life , I. p . 8 . Ibid . p . 10 . Ibid . At fourteen , he was sent to study philosophy with 2 BLANCO WHITE . Grounds of a personal interest in.
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... Letters , † where he employs the third person , he has also intimated them . But he protests , and with evident truth , that immorality was not with him a conscious inducement to unbelief . 6. He was ordained priest in 1799 ; and for ...
... Letters , † where he employs the third person , he has also intimated them . But he protests , and with evident truth , that immorality was not with him a conscious inducement to unbelief . 6. He was ordained priest in 1799 ; and for ...
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... letter to Neander , ** in which he returned thanks to God for ( as he supposed ) the final settlement of his religious views . 8. But from or even at this time he was gradually * Evidence against Catholicism , ' p . 13 . Ibid . p . 18 ...
... letter to Neander , ** in which he returned thanks to God for ( as he supposed ) the final settlement of his religious views . 8. But from or even at this time he was gradually * Evidence against Catholicism , ' p . 13 . Ibid . p . 18 ...
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... Letters * he says , “ Among my numerous acquaintance in the Spanish clergy I have never met with any one possessed of bold talents who has not , sooner or later , changed from the most sincere piety to a state of unbelief . " 10. Such a ...
... Letters * he says , “ Among my numerous acquaintance in the Spanish clergy I have never met with any one possessed of bold talents who has not , sooner or later , changed from the most sincere piety to a state of unbelief . " 10. Such a ...
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... letter , from which the citation is taken , is one of pure theory . We say , therefore , that when we find Mr. Blanco White systematically ignoring the effect which ten years of unbe- * Life , II . p . 262 . lief not only might but must ...
... letter , from which the citation is taken , is one of pure theory . We say , therefore , that when we find Mr. Blanco White systematically ignoring the effect which ten years of unbe- * Life , II . p . 262 . lief not only might but must ...
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Page 167 - Traitors — and strike him dead, and meet myself Death, or I know not what mysterious doom. And thou remaining here wilt learn the event; But hither shall I never come again, Never lie by thy side; see thee no more — Farewell!
Page 178 - Titanic forces taking birth In divers seasons, divers climes; For we are Ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
Page 53 - Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made : Those are pearls that were his eyes, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change, Into something rich and strange.
Page 141 - Ah ! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
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Page 307 - Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame...
Page 141 - For the peace, that I deem'd no peace, is over and done, And now by the side of the Black and the Baltic deep, And deathful-grinning mouths of the fortress, flames The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire.
Page 142 - When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee, And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones, Is it peace or war ? better, war! loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones.