Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 4Orestes Augustus Brownson Benjamin H. Greene, 1850 |
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... sense the modern progressists , or humanists , pretend , we do not dis- pute , and could not , without denying the propriety of all efforts for their moral , physical , intellectual , and religious improve- ment , and of all ...
... sense the modern progressists , or humanists , pretend , we do not dis- pute , and could not , without denying the propriety of all efforts for their moral , physical , intellectual , and religious improve- ment , and of all ...
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... sense in which we depend on the will of God that we do or can act , it does not follow that our actions are independent of that will , and uncontrollable by it . Nay , on the author's own principles , it follows that they are ...
... sense in which we depend on the will of God that we do or can act , it does not follow that our actions are independent of that will , and uncontrollable by it . Nay , on the author's own principles , it follows that they are ...
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... sense , he loses his argument for the freedom of the will founded on the supposition that it is not created ; if in the former sense , he makes it identically the Divine will itself , for the inherent ability to will is the will , and ...
... sense , he loses his argument for the freedom of the will founded on the supposition that it is not created ; if in the former sense , he makes it identically the Divine will itself , for the inherent ability to will is the will , and ...
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... sense of Plato , the only sense in which we use the word in this article , inheres in the very being of God , and therefore , if God is pure act , as we have just proved , both ontologically and psychologi- cally , must be God himself ...
... sense of Plato , the only sense in which we use the word in this article , inheres in the very being of God , and therefore , if God is pure act , as we have just proved , both ontologically and psychologi- cally , must be God himself ...
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... sense it implies defect ; but in the sense in which it is a positive perfection , it is implied in been placed on the Index . In the work to which we refer , we find many things , not immediately connected with philosophy , things ...
... sense it implies defect ; but in the sense in which it is a positive perfection , it is implied in been placed on the Index . In the work to which we refer , we find many things , not immediately connected with philosophy , things ...
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Page 100 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power, Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire, — that were low indeed ! That were an ignominy...
Page 98 - Seek ye therefore first the Kingdom of God and His justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Page 443 - I have loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile...
Page 430 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me,
Page 445 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness...
Page 507 - ... territory or dominions of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States are at peace, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars, and imprisoned not more than three years.
Page 68 - and died away into silence. Then he beheld, in a dream, once more the home of his childhood ; Green Acadian meadows, with sylvan rivers among them, Village, and mountain, and woodlands ; and, walking under their shadow, As in the days of her youth, Evangeline rose in his vision. Tears came into his eyes ; and as slowly he lifted his eyelids, Vanished the vision away, but Evangeline knelt by his bedside. Vainly he strove to whisper her name, for the accents unuttered Died on his lips, and their motion...
Page 68 - Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking. Then through those realms of shade, in multiplied reverberations, Heard he that cry of pain, and through the hush that succeeded Whispered a gentle voice, in accents tender and saint-like, '• Gabriel ! O my beloved !
Page 59 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses I Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows.
Page 68 - All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience! And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom, Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured, "Father, I thank thee!