The British Controversialist and Literary MagazineHoulston and Stonemen, 1860 |
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... questions which are here discussed , and no lack of ability in their treatment . In both these respects the present will , we believe , bear favourable comparison with any previous volume . In Theology , we have a debate on a question ...
... questions which are here discussed , and no lack of ability in their treatment . In both these respects the present will , we believe , bear favourable comparison with any previous volume . In Theology , we have a debate on a question ...
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... question ye propose for my solution . And not to multiply instances , let us take one example more , which is certainly a case in point . We read that a young man came to him , anxious for the salvation of his soul , and wishing to know ...
... question ye propose for my solution . And not to multiply instances , let us take one example more , which is certainly a case in point . We read that a young man came to him , anxious for the salvation of his soul , and wishing to know ...
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... question is settled , it is quite useless to discuss others . Everything which is believed by either must be ultimately referred to the authority upon which it is believed . If a Protestant is asked for a proof of the doctrine of the ...
... question is settled , it is quite useless to discuss others . Everything which is believed by either must be ultimately referred to the authority upon which it is believed . If a Protestant is asked for a proof of the doctrine of the ...
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... question at once shows the extent to which the advocates of the suppression of the opium trade are either ill - informed , or misinformed . The thrilling declamation against the iniquity of the trade , and the solemn appeals made to the ...
... question at once shows the extent to which the advocates of the suppression of the opium trade are either ill - informed , or misinformed . The thrilling declamation against the iniquity of the trade , and the solemn appeals made to the ...
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... question , to make it practical . It has a territorial and a commercial aspect . Viewed commercially , the Company were producers and venders of the drug , and it was thought their end would , in part , be secured , if the Company's ...
... question , to make it practical . It has a territorial and a commercial aspect . Viewed commercially , the Company were producers and venders of the drug , and it was thought their end would , in part , be secured , if the Company's ...
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Page 82 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Page 220 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 191 - I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour.
Page 249 - All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.
Page 163 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow; there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Page 230 - ... as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.
Page 276 - Yet hold me not for ever in thine East : How can my nature longer mix with thine ? Coldly thy rosy shadows bathe me, cold Are all thy lights, and cold my wrinkled feet Upon thy glimmering thresholds, when the steam Floats up from those dim fields about the homes Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
Page 23 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 27 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new ; That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Page 255 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...