The British Quarterly Review, Volume 27Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1858 - Christianity |
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Page 196 - Because I have called and ye have refused; I have ' stretched out my hand and no man regarded; but ye have set at ' nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also * will langh at your calamity; I will mock when
Page 434 - Mr. Stephenson lent his yacht. Professor Smyth offered his science and experience, and away went the astronomer of Scotland to take up his residence for a few weeks— ' In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.
Page 305 - My father,' says Latimer,' was a yeoman, and had no ' lands of his own; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the ' year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept a half
Page 79 - but what a strange tale does it tell, not to the poet only, but to the philosopher ! His eyes are opened, not as Oberon's were, when ' Certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music;
Page 197 - demnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved ' darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For ' every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh ' to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that ' doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made ' manifest that they are wrought in God.
Page 197 - should not perish, but have eternal life. ' For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the ' world; but that the world through him might be saved. He
Page 74 - on some clear evening, when There is no light in earth or heaven • But the cold light of stars, falling in showers, as though a sudden frenzy had seized the bright eyes which usually look down so calmly from the silent spheres, or that the bands of Orion were loosed, or the stars in their courses were literally fighting, not against the
Page 197 - name of the only-begotten Son of God. And this is the con. ' demnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved ' darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For ' every one that doeth evil hateth
Page 414 - 0 Lord, thy word is settled in Heaven They ' continue this day according to thine ordinances; for all are thy ' servants.' Hostile jealousy of the advances of true physical science is the last folly of which
Page 516 - the merchants of London on his return determined our Indian future. A great body of them applied to the Queen for a charter of incorporation, defining the principles on which they should trade to the East. In December, 1600, the petitioners were accordingly incorporated by Elizabeth under the designation of ' The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies.