The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volumes 1-2Houlston and Stonemen, 1856 - Great Britain |
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... thought , word , and act is a seed sown in the soil of eternity , which bears immortal fruit , blessed and blessing , or otherwise , according to its nature . Wherefore , let us each now endeavour to attain a safe light in which to ...
... thought , word , and act is a seed sown in the soil of eternity , which bears immortal fruit , blessed and blessing , or otherwise , according to its nature . Wherefore , let us each now endeavour to attain a safe light in which to ...
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... thoughts intellectual science has its birth - germ , and the desire to know its origin . Every life requires pilotage ... thought , " strong in being true , " may become a life - possession to our readers in the course of the study they ...
... thoughts intellectual science has its birth - germ , and the desire to know its origin . Every life requires pilotage ... thought , " strong in being true , " may become a life - possession to our readers in the course of the study they ...
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... thought , they knit together the fortunes of men with the influences and aspects of the orbs of heaven , at the same time that he witnessed the mode in which their dynasts wielded power . Nay , even to far Hindostan he penetrated , and ...
... thought , they knit together the fortunes of men with the influences and aspects of the orbs of heaven , at the same time that he witnessed the mode in which their dynasts wielded power . Nay , even to far Hindostan he penetrated , and ...
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... thought , he , with becoming modesty , rejected the implied compliment , and adopted the more humble title of ... thought - contemplative reasoning on men and things . It will be afterwards seen , that although he regarded thought as the ...
... thought , he , with becoming modesty , rejected the implied compliment , and adopted the more humble title of ... thought - contemplative reasoning on men and things . It will be afterwards seen , that although he regarded thought as the ...
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... thought that they are destined to a future and an eternal existence . Their whole life is a prac- tical denial of this truth ; all their thoughts are concerned about , and bound up with , the present life , and death they look upon as ...
... thought that they are destined to a future and an eternal existence . Their whole life is a prac- tical denial of this truth ; all their thoughts are concerned about , and bound up with , the present life , and death they look upon as ...
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Page 96 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Page 63 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm...
Page 175 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 100 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Page 95 - And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 96 - Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee...
Page 96 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat, all the days of thy life: and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page 100 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, " 'tis all barren." And so it is : and so is all the world, to him who will not cultivate the fruit it offers.
Page 96 - Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever : for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Page 51 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished...