The New Englander, Volume 9A.H. Maltby, 1851 - Criticism |
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... spirit . Christians know more about the religious destitution of our country and the wants of the heathen world , but they are not correspondingly intent on supplying those necessities . This may in part be accounted for on the well ...
... spirit . Christians know more about the religious destitution of our country and the wants of the heathen world , but they are not correspondingly intent on supplying those necessities . This may in part be accounted for on the well ...
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... spirit of our countrymen from becoming the prevailing ambition of all ? What shall hinder it from invad- ing the enclosures of the church and secretly corroding the vitals of her piety ? The grandeur of our enterprises and the rapidity ...
... spirit of our countrymen from becoming the prevailing ambition of all ? What shall hinder it from invad- ing the enclosures of the church and secretly corroding the vitals of her piety ? The grandeur of our enterprises and the rapidity ...
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... spirit , with the increase of their possessions . From motives of delicacy , religious teachers who receive their support from the voluntary subscriptions of their people , may have shrunk from the same degree of explicitness upon this ...
... spirit , with the increase of their possessions . From motives of delicacy , religious teachers who receive their support from the voluntary subscriptions of their people , may have shrunk from the same degree of explicitness upon this ...
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... spirit of the seventeenth . * We have sometimes thought that the translator of Ezra and Nehemiah in our common version was a kind of predecessor of Dr. Johnson . " Confisca- tion of goods , " " frustrate a purpose , " " impose toll ...
... spirit of the seventeenth . * We have sometimes thought that the translator of Ezra and Nehemiah in our common version was a kind of predecessor of Dr. Johnson . " Confisca- tion of goods , " " frustrate a purpose , " " impose toll ...
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... spirit . They are the golden ore in the vein , not the sweepings of some indus- trious miner , or the casual drift of some wintry torrent . This may account in part for the small number of Mr. Dana's works . Some seem disposed to ...
... spirit . They are the golden ore in the vein , not the sweepings of some indus- trious miner , or the casual drift of some wintry torrent . This may account in part for the small number of Mr. Dana's works . Some seem disposed to ...
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Page 378 - And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Page 54 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 221 - AND it shall come to pass in the last days, That the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, To the house of the God of Jacob ; And he will teach us of his ways, And we will walk in his paths : For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 550 - For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ ; which is far better ; nevertheless to abide, in the flesh is more needful for you.
Page 28 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Page 376 - Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee.
Page 377 - And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him,' I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Page 345 - And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
Page 379 - David ; as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us ; to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; the oath which he sware to our father Abraham...
Page 187 - Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee : know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.