Lion, Volume 4R. Carlile., 1829 |
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... doubts that would never have arisen in one's own mind : and however satisfactory or clever the answers to the objections that are brought forward , seem at the time to be , there is something so much cleverer and more striking in the ...
... doubts that would never have arisen in one's own mind : and however satisfactory or clever the answers to the objections that are brought forward , seem at the time to be , there is something so much cleverer and more striking in the ...
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... doubt whether they be on the right side ; they cannot doubt that they are on the safe side . The misgivings of conscience , are made up by the calculations of interest , and the hesitation as to whe- ther it be right , to leave our ...
... doubt whether they be on the right side ; they cannot doubt that they are on the safe side . The misgivings of conscience , are made up by the calculations of interest , and the hesitation as to whe- ther it be right , to leave our ...
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... doubt the evidence of our own senses ; the very first remove from intui- tion , the narrative of the immediate witness , multiplies the chances against our perception of truth , by the square , and if it should happen , that we would ...
... doubt the evidence of our own senses ; the very first remove from intui- tion , the narrative of the immediate witness , multiplies the chances against our perception of truth , by the square , and if it should happen , that we would ...
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... doubt if this be the case among those who rank as men of sense : and men of the world . What good does modern Christianity produce , to counter - balance this far spread simulation and dis- simulation this degrading , but prudent and ...
... doubt if this be the case among those who rank as men of sense : and men of the world . What good does modern Christianity produce , to counter - balance this far spread simulation and dis- simulation this degrading , but prudent and ...
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... doubt as to Christianity itself ? Do they not call in question the assertion of the founder of their religion , when he assured his followers , that nothing shall shake the foundation of the faith he had established . If Jesus had said ...
... doubt as to Christianity itself ? Do they not call in question the assertion of the founder of their religion , when he assured his followers , that nothing shall shake the foundation of the faith he had established . If Jesus had said ...
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Page 305 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 457 - The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say ' This is no flattery : these are counsellors 10 That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 151 - I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Page 518 - And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Page 393 - European powers, but a moral war which raged in every family, which set the father against the son, and the son against the father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother.
Page 458 - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Page 235 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King!
Page 519 - And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.