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... Religion of Socrates 196 Physical Considerations connected with Man's Ultimate Desti- nation 207 · Christian Dispensation 230 Crombie's Natural Theology 236 On Nature and Providence to Communities 268 Prison Discipline 281 Lessing's ...
... Religion of Socrates 196 Physical Considerations connected with Man's Ultimate Desti- nation 207 · Christian Dispensation 230 Crombie's Natural Theology 236 On Nature and Providence to Communities 268 Prison Discipline 281 Lessing's ...
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... religious feuds whose effects they were now feeling , and respecting him in whom these feuds originated . Towards sunset , one evening in the beginning of March , 1522 , Liese , one of the sisterhood of the convent before mentioned ...
... religious feuds whose effects they were now feeling , and respecting him in whom these feuds originated . Towards sunset , one evening in the beginning of March , 1522 , Liese , one of the sisterhood of the convent before mentioned ...
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... religion as he has ever taught me , when our old John lifted me up that I might see the becs at work in the hive , and when he told me legends of the Saints as we sat in the shade , angling for trout in the stream that runs past our ...
... religion as he has ever taught me , when our old John lifted me up that I might see the becs at work in the hive , and when he told me legends of the Saints as we sat in the shade , angling for trout in the stream that runs past our ...
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... religious sym- pathy she shunned . The more she became aware how superior they were to the convent community in under- standing , and in all companionable qualities , the more she feared their gaining any influence over her , as they ...
... religious sym- pathy she shunned . The more she became aware how superior they were to the convent community in under- standing , and in all companionable qualities , the more she feared their gaining any influence over her , as they ...
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... religious sympathy ; and the occasion was not lost . A few words from Luther's bible , which Liese had nowhere heard before , sank into her awa- kened mind , and were never afterwards forgotten . On a review of the day , she convinced ...
... religious sympathy ; and the occasion was not lost . A few words from Luther's bible , which Liese had nowhere heard before , sank into her awa- kened mind , and were never afterwards forgotten . On a review of the day , she convinced ...
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Page 229 - He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him : for he said, I am the Son of God.
Page 230 - Christ, save Thyself and us. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation ? And we indeed justly ; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And He said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily, I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Page 100 - O ! th" exceeding grace Of highest God that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed Angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe ! How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us...
Page 106 - ... the old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven, without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind ; Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness in her person shined So clear as in no face with more delight. But O, as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Page 394 - ... that she had not confessed because she was guilty, but being a poor creature who wrought for her meat, and being defamed for a witch, she knew she would starve, for no person thereafter would either give her meat or lodging, and that all men would beat her and hound dogs at her, and that therefore she desired to be out of the world ; whereupon she wept most bitterly, and upon her knees called God to witness to what she said.
Page 215 - Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw!
Page 342 - It is absolutely necessary for it to be exercised on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination, and bring out that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone. 81. Or is the human species never to arrive at this highest step of illumination and purity? — Never? 82. Never? — Let me not think this blasphemy, All Merciful! Education has its goal, in the race, no less than in the individual. That which is educated is educated for a purpose.
Page 122 - Putting idiots and extraordinary cases out of the question, every human creature is endowed with talents (or his nature involves principles) which, if rightly directed, would shew him to be apt, adroit, intelligent, and acute, in the walk for which his organization especially fitted him.
Page 201 - Aristodemus, understand there is a Being whose eye pierceth throughout all nature, and whose ear is open to every sound; extended to all places; extending through all time, and whose bounty and care can know no other bounds than those fixed by his own creation!
Page 256 - British cabinet, the debates in parliament, the subsidies to foreign powers, the battles by sea and land, the marches and countermarches, the wounds, deaths, and promotions, the fears, and hopes, and anxieties of a thousand individuals, would all have been different. The speculations of those writers and speakers who employed themselves in discussing these various subjects, and canvassing the conduct of this celebrated man, would not have been called forth. The train of ideas in every mind interested...