The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 38Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1845 |
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... express revelation of Christ can stand firmly until we have fortified it by vague arguments of our own drawn from the light of nature , it will be as it is with " one that beateth the air . " Other things being equal , that preaching ...
... express revelation of Christ can stand firmly until we have fortified it by vague arguments of our own drawn from the light of nature , it will be as it is with " one that beateth the air . " Other things being equal , that preaching ...
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... express his meaning , in consequence , as he says , of some misapprehension of it on the part of the 66 audience . " The lines now stand thus , the 132 [ JAN . Notices of Recent Publications . Story's Phi Beta Kappa Poem,-Benjamin's ...
... express his meaning , in consequence , as he says , of some misapprehension of it on the part of the 66 audience . " The lines now stand thus , the 132 [ JAN . Notices of Recent Publications . Story's Phi Beta Kappa Poem,-Benjamin's ...
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... express or entertain Gospel hope , he must think that he stands on Gospel ground . Merely ethical preaching cannot produce this result . The doc- trine of faith working by love and bringing the soul upon new spiritual ground , is able ...
... express or entertain Gospel hope , he must think that he stands on Gospel ground . Merely ethical preaching cannot produce this result . The doc- trine of faith working by love and bringing the soul upon new spiritual ground , is able ...
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... express our general opinion of these several volumes and writers , and then to present some favorite notions of our own on the great subject they open before us , which have long been floating in our mind , and which are at once called ...
... express our general opinion of these several volumes and writers , and then to present some favorite notions of our own on the great subject they open before us , which have long been floating in our mind , and which are at once called ...
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... express our idea of what she wants as a poet , better than any words of To the best of our recollection , Sarah Stickney's " Pictures of Private Life " contained more poetry than Mrs. Ellis's " Poems . " our own . But now , in our ...
... express our idea of what she wants as a poet , better than any words of To the best of our recollection , Sarah Stickney's " Pictures of Private Life " contained more poetry than Mrs. Ellis's " Poems . " our own . But now , in our ...
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Page 218 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died.
Page 214 - Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? »the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 219 - To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Page 100 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Page 420 - The Miscellaneous Works of Thomas Arnold, DD Late Head Master of Rugby School and Regius Professor of Modern History in the Univ. of Oxford.
Page 99 - The league between virtue and nature engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice. The beautiful laws and substances of the world persecute and whip the traitor. He finds that things are arranged for truth and benefit, but there is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.
Page 111 - And it is yet far more evident, for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Page 170 - ... change; it subdues to union under its light yoke, all irreconcilable things. It transmutes all that it touches, and every form moving within the radiance of its presence is changed by wondrous sympathy to an incarnation of the spirit which it breathes; its secret alchemy turns to potable gold the poisonous waters which flow from death through life; it strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bare the naked and sleeping beauty, which is the spirit of its forms.
Page 30 - Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go ? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
Page 219 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...