Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 25-261858 |
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... Religion a Gross Blunder in Policy , and a Grevious Sin in Practice , 59. - Poetry : " A Lay of the Indian War , " 60 , " A Plea for the Sufferers in India , " 61 , " To a Child , " 62 , " The Thornless Rose , " 63. - Ecclesiastical ...
... Religion a Gross Blunder in Policy , and a Grevious Sin in Practice , 59. - Poetry : " A Lay of the Indian War , " 60 , " A Plea for the Sufferers in India , " 61 , " To a Child , " 62 , " The Thornless Rose , " 63. - Ecclesiastical ...
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... religion , for teaching the young , or for protecting the poor . Such a repose , the same luxury of rest for the mind , is felt , by all who traverse the great circumstantial records of those tumul- tuous Roman times , in the Ciceronian ...
... religion , for teaching the young , or for protecting the poor . Such a repose , the same luxury of rest for the mind , is felt , by all who traverse the great circumstantial records of those tumul- tuous Roman times , in the Ciceronian ...
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... religion . It is far from being unprofitable , while , as giving us the key to these posthumous discourses , it is important , to go back upon the earlier stages of that remarkable man's career , and to set the views which he then held ...
... religion . It is far from being unprofitable , while , as giving us the key to these posthumous discourses , it is important , to go back upon the earlier stages of that remarkable man's career , and to set the views which he then held ...
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... religious mind of the period when words like these could be uttered on such an occasion : - " Had the Bible always been consulted with due freedom and impartiality , the world would not have been stocked with so many religious ...
... religious mind of the period when words like these could be uttered on such an occasion : - " Had the Bible always been consulted with due freedom and impartiality , the world would not have been stocked with so many religious ...
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... religion with the vulgar , " and their conduct is characterized as " irrational and in- excusable , " while , though learned , their failings are " culpable sloth and prepossessions , " and they " pervert " Scripture by their ...
... religion with the vulgar , " and their conduct is characterized as " irrational and in- excusable , " while , though learned , their failings are " culpable sloth and prepossessions , " and they " pervert " Scripture by their ...
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Page 138 - I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. "And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Page 354 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 138 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Page 354 - But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa ; and he found a ship going to Tarshish : so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Page 137 - And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you ; and with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you ; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
Page 274 - Firmly relying Ourselves on the truth of Christianity, and acknowledging with gratitude the solace of Religion, We disclaim alike the Right and the Desire to impose Our Convictions on any of Our Subjects.
Page 139 - The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock : and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
Page 137 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 162 - And now they roared at drum-beat from their stations On every citadel ; Each answering each with morning salutations, That all was well. And down the coast, all taking up the burden, Replied the distant forts, As if to summon from his sleep the Warden And Lord of the Cinque Ports. Him shall no sunshine from the fields of azure, No drum-beat from the wall, No morning gun from the black fort's embrasure, Awaken with its call...
Page 381 - And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. 12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it...