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Indeed , “ an indefinite fear of the conclusions to which he might come , ” led him
to avoid the study of the question , - a condition of mind similar to that of
thousands . But on seceding from s the Establishment , ” he felt himself
compelled to take ...
Indeed , “ an indefinite fear of the conclusions to which he might come , ” led him
to avoid the study of the question , - a condition of mind similar to that of
thousands . But on seceding from s the Establishment , ” he felt himself
compelled to take ...
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fallen , and given to his work a higher critical value ; but after all , it would have
possessed less adaptation to the public mind , as a spontaneous , independent
testimony to the truth . Upon the whole , we are glad he has adopted this course ...
fallen , and given to his work a higher critical value ; but after all , it would have
possessed less adaptation to the public mind , as a spontaneous , independent
testimony to the truth . Upon the whole , we are glad he has adopted this course ...
Page 67
... the entire energies of his noble and capacious nature to the extermination of
the traffic , and the annihilation in the English mind of what Lord Brougham has
pronounced “ the wild and guilty phantasy that man can hold property in man .
... the entire energies of his noble and capacious nature to the extermination of
the traffic , and the annihilation in the English mind of what Lord Brougham has
pronounced “ the wild and guilty phantasy that man can hold property in man .
Page 70
Mr . Buxton at once threw his mind and heart into the work , and his subsequent
ability and devotion to it justified the compliment of Mr . Wilberforce , a few years
afterward , when he called him his “ Parliamentary Executor . " The resolutions of
...
Mr . Buxton at once threw his mind and heart into the work , and his subsequent
ability and devotion to it justified the compliment of Mr . Wilberforce , a few years
afterward , when he called him his “ Parliamentary Executor . " The resolutions of
...
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These however are not considered so much for themselves , as for the light that is
thrown by their just comprehension upon the speculative difficulties which acute
minds have discovered in , or ingenious ones woven around , some of the great ...
These however are not considered so much for themselves , as for the light that is
thrown by their just comprehension upon the speculative difficulties which acute
minds have discovered in , or ingenious ones woven around , some of the great ...
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Page 80 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not THEE, marks not the mighty hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres; Works in the secret deep; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 316 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 572 - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art, or dictated by force ; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts. From this day, the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank ; the English lose all exclusive influence in the affairs of America.
Page 120 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall : and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 317 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 600 - For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
Page 28 - Kemble.— The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth till the period of the Norman Conquest.
Page 113 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it...
Page 111 - Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 121 - Remember the former things of old: For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times the things that are not yet done, Saying, My counsel shall stand, And I will do all my pleasure...