Christian Oratory: An Inquiry Into Its History During the First Five Centuries

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Macmillan and Company, 1859 - Church history - 219 pages

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Page viii - MA who composed the best Dissertation in the English language, on the Evidences in general, or on the Prophecies or Miracles in particular, or on any other particular argument, whether the same be direct or collateral proofs of the Christian religion, in order to evince its truth and excellence.
Page 12 - Christ and other Masters. A Historical Inquiry into some of the Chief Parallelisms and Contrasts between Christianity and the Religious Systems of the Ancient World.
Page 24 - PROCTER— A HISTORY OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, with a Rationale of its Offices. By FRANCIS PROCTER, MA Thirteenth Edition, revised and enlarged. Crown 8vo. loг. 6d. PROCTER AND MACLEAR— AN ELEMENTARY INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.
Page 19 - Prelector of St. John's College, Cambridge. AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON MECHANICS. For the Use of the Junior Classes at the University and the Higher Classes in Schools.
Page 10 - The Nature of the Atonement, and its Relation to Remission of Sins and Eternal Life.
Page 18 - Prize Essay for 1877. 8vC. &r. 6d. SMITH— Works by the Rev. BARNARD SMITH, MA, Rector of Glaston, Rutland, late Fellow and Senior Bursar of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA, in their Principles and Application ; with numerous systematically arranged Examples taken from the Cambridge Examination Papers, with especial reference to the Ordinary Examination for the BA Degree.
Page 23 - SCHOOL SONGS. A Collection of Songs for Schools. With the Music arranged for four Voices. Edited by the Rev. E. THRING and H. RICCIUS. Folio.
Page 17 - AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THE LUNAR THEORY, with a Brief Sketch of the Problem up to the time of Newton. Second Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. cloth. 5*. 6d. Hemming. — AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THE DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS, for the Use; of Colleges and Schools.
Page 11 - 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 13 - ... courage of faith, in richer profusion than any other work bearing on religious matters that has been addressed to this generation . ' The Restoration of Belief' may, in many respects, take a place among the books of the nineteenth century, corresponding to that justly conceded by us to the ' Analogy' of Butler in the literature of the last age, or to the ' Thoughts of Pascal in that of the age preceding.

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