The Religions of the World and Their Relations to Christianity: Considered in Eight Lectures Founded by the Hon. Robert Boyle

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John W. Parker and Son, 1852 - Christianity and other religions - 252 pages

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Page 14 - Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. HOWARD. — The Pentateuch ; Or, the Five Books of Moses. Translated into English from the Version of the LXX. With Notes on its Omissions and Insertions, and also on the Passages in which it differs from the Authorized Version. By the Hon. HENRY HOWARD, DD Crown 8vo. GENESIS, One Volume, 8s. 6d. ; EXODUS AND LEVITICUS, One Volume, 10s. 6d. ; NUMBERS AND DEUTERONOMY, One Volume, 10s. 6d. HOZIER. — The Seven Weeks' War ; Its Antecedents and its Incidents.
Page 16 - This volume contains Discourses on Samuel I. and II. ; Kings I. and II. ; Amos, Joel, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.
Page 20 - In one respect, it may be taken as a sign of the times. It is a small unpretending volume in appearance, but it is based on learning enough to have...
Page 8 - Deserve to be considered the most remarkable proofs of the Author's indomitable energy and power of concentration
Page 7 - Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh; and Director of the Industrial Museum of Scotland.
Page 15 - No one who reads a single page of Mr. Masson will be likely to content himself with that alone. He will see at a glance that he has come across a man endowed with a real love of poetry ; a clear, fresh, happy insight into the poefs heart ; and a great knowledge of the historical connexion of its more marked epochs in England.
Page 12 - NONCONFORMIST. PHAETHON ; or, Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 2s. " The dialogue of ' Phaethon' has striking beauties, and its suggestions may meet half-way many a latent doubt, and, like a light breeze, lift from the soul clouds that are gathering heavily, and threatening to settle down in misty gloom on the summer of many a fair and promising young life.
Page 1 - Life of John Milton, narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time.
Page 9 - MORNING POST. BY THE RIGHT REV. JOHN WILLIAM COLENSO, DD, Lord Bishop of Natal, formerly Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. 1. The Colony of Natal. A Journal of Ten Weeks' Tour of Visitation among the Colonists and Zulu Kaffirs of Natal.
Page 1 - IT is intended that the title of this Work should indicate its character. Such an alternative title as ' The Life and Times of Milton ' might suggest more familiarly, perhaps, the precedents which the Author has had in view. While his first object has been to narrate the Life of Milton fully, deliberately, and minutely, with as much of additional fact and illustration as might be supposed to result, even at this distance of time, from new research and from a further examination of the old materials,...

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