Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 33-341862 |
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... matter and in style . .. In other respects he was all that a minister of the Gospel ought to be . Orthodox in ... matters the remarks are characterised by strong practical sagacity and earnestness . The tone of admonition is often ...
... matter and in style . .. In other respects he was all that a minister of the Gospel ought to be . Orthodox in ... matters the remarks are characterised by strong practical sagacity and earnestness . The tone of admonition is often ...
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... matter , takes their signatures for the advances . The ryots , taking the money in advance , come home with tears in their eyes ; and the day on which any of them comes home with the money , his house be- comes filled , as it were ...
... matter , takes their signatures for the advances . The ryots , taking the money in advance , come home with tears in their eyes ; and the day on which any of them comes home with the money , his house be- comes filled , as it were ...
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... matter of philological research , viz . , the answer which is being given by Mr Robert Young , to a question often raised by Hebraists , -a question which meets every student in the attempt to interpret the Old Testament narrative in ...
... matter of philological research , viz . , the answer which is being given by Mr Robert Young , to a question often raised by Hebraists , -a question which meets every student in the attempt to interpret the Old Testament narrative in ...
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... matter been been so thoroughly , logically , and philosophically investigated , and we think it is impossible to read these lectures as they are here given before us without being fully convinced that all the outcry which has been made ...
... matter been been so thoroughly , logically , and philosophically investigated , and we think it is impossible to read these lectures as they are here given before us without being fully convinced that all the outcry which has been made ...
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... matter . They will find them replete with interesting and important information - information that in every instance may be readily and confidently received . Nothing can be juster than the sentiment of the judicious Medhurst expressed ...
... matter . They will find them replete with interesting and important information - information that in every instance may be readily and confidently received . Nothing can be juster than the sentiment of the judicious Medhurst expressed ...
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Page 18 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang, To the anthem of the free...
Page 362 - Six wings he wore, to shade his lineaments divine ; the pair that clad each shoulder broad came mantling o'er his breast with regal ornament; the middle pair girt like a starry zone his waist, and round skirted his loins and thighs, with downy gold and colours dipped in heaven; the third his feet shadowed from either heel with feathered mail, sky-tinctured grain. Like Maia's son he stood, and shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance filled the circuit wide.
Page 181 - And teach her fair steps to our earth ; Till that divine Idea take a shrine Of crystal flesh, through which to shine : — Meet you her, my Wishes, Bespeak her to my blisses, And be ye call'd, my absent kisses.
Page 239 - A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again : pronounce a text, Cry, hem ! and, reading -what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.
Page 129 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 182 - Days, that need borrow No part of their good morrow From a fore-spent night of sorrow : Days, that in spite Of darkness, by the light Of a clear mind are day all night. Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say,
Page 162 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Page 319 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 144 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 264 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.