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... regard this book in the light of an invitation to at- tend the funeral of one of the most powerful advocates that ever defended the best cause . And if our regret were to be in proportion either to the value of the life which has ...
... regard this book in the light of an invitation to at- tend the funeral of one of the most powerful advocates that ever defended the best cause . And if our regret were to be in proportion either to the value of the life which has ...
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... regard to congre- gations in general , it is surely very fair to observe how use- less such discourses must be . If even Dr. Paley , with his admirable power of compression and lucid statement , is quite unable in such a contracted ...
... regard to congre- gations in general , it is surely very fair to observe how use- less such discourses must be . If even Dr. Paley , with his admirable power of compression and lucid statement , is quite unable in such a contracted ...
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... regards it as the noblest , indeed the only noble intellectual achievement , to carry a question through the conflict of adverse arguments , and in the result to establish some one thing as true , consolidating its proofs by a ...
... regards it as the noblest , indeed the only noble intellectual achievement , to carry a question through the conflict of adverse arguments , and in the result to establish some one thing as true , consolidating its proofs by a ...
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... regard or to slight , at our choice , what he was sent by a higher authority to say to us . And besides , when important truths are declared in a manner totally unimpassioned , he who utters them appears by this calm manner to place an ...
... regard or to slight , at our choice , what he was sent by a higher authority to say to us . And besides , when important truths are declared in a manner totally unimpassioned , he who utters them appears by this calm manner to place an ...
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... regard to the death of Christ , he expresses strongly his impression of the mysteriousness both of the appoint- ment itself , and of the manner in which that sacrifice pro- duces its appointed effect ; but he fully asserts that it was ...
... regard to the death of Christ , he expresses strongly his impression of the mysteriousness both of the appoint- ment itself , and of the manner in which that sacrifice pro- duces its appointed effect ; but he fully asserts that it was ...
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Page 548 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid — his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Page 548 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Page 230 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 221 - But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
Page 221 - When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice ; (for the LORD thy God is a merciful God ;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
Page 528 - They who contend, that nothing less can justify subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles, than the actual belief of each and every separate proposition contained in them, must suppose, that the legislature expected the consent of ten thousand men, and that in perpetual succession, not to one controverted proposition, but to many hundreds. It is difficult to conceive how this could be expected by any, who ' observed the incurable diversity of human opinion upon all subjects short of demonstration.
Page 317 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 230 - WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Page 154 - O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce 'Twixt natural son and sire ! thou bright defiler Of Hymen's purest bed ! thou valiant Mars ! Thou ever young, fresh, loved, and delicate wooer, Whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow That lies on Dian's lap ! thou visible god, That solder'st close impossibilities, And...
Page 390 - How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in' Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command.