Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines with Notices Biographical and Critical, Volume 2J. Nesbet, 1857 - Christian literature, English |
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... presents it , he does all which a disputant can to counteract the sceptical and pragmatical tendencies of religious controversy . Hence , too , it comes to pass that , with one of the common- places of Protestantism or Calvinism for a ...
... presents it , he does all which a disputant can to counteract the sceptical and pragmatical tendencies of religious controversy . Hence , too , it comes to pass that , with one of the common- places of Protestantism or Calvinism for a ...
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... present , but if ever it be thy condition , thou wilt find it to be full of woe and bitterness . Oh ! then , let us strive to keep our spirits unen- tangled , avoiding all appearance of evil and all ways leading thereunto ; especially ...
... present , but if ever it be thy condition , thou wilt find it to be full of woe and bitterness . Oh ! then , let us strive to keep our spirits unen- tangled , avoiding all appearance of evil and all ways leading thereunto ; especially ...
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... present , and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into existence , and all the burial- places of the memory give up their dead . ” * The ultimate key , however , to Milton's poetic mastery is the one thus indicated by ...
... present , and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into existence , and all the burial- places of the memory give up their dead . ” * The ultimate key , however , to Milton's poetic mastery is the one thus indicated by ...
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... present it entire . ] How happy were it for this frail and , as it may be called , mortal life of man , since all earthly things which have the name of good and convenient in our daily use are withal so cumbersome and full of trouble ...
... present it entire . ] How happy were it for this frail and , as it may be called , mortal life of man , since all earthly things which have the name of good and convenient in our daily use are withal so cumbersome and full of trouble ...
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... present had lent me ; I foresee what stories I should hear within myself , all my life after , of discourage and reproach . Timorous and ungrateful , the Church of God is now again at the foot of her insulting enemies , and thou ...
... present had lent me ; I foresee what stories I should hear within myself , all my life after , of discourage and reproach . Timorous and ungrateful , the Church of God is now again at the foot of her insulting enemies , and thou ...
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Page 56 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. Thou sun of this great world, both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st.
Page 57 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky, or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Page 54 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Page 46 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Page 51 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek die steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 45 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 51 - In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.
Page 134 - He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man : the field is the world ; the good seed are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels.
Page 48 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Page 55 - Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in 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...