The modern martyr, Volume 2Westley and Davis, 1828 - 318 pages |
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... Possessing more genu- ine modesty than the Milan echo , which Addison tells us will return the report of the pistol fifty - six times ; or than the famous Woodstock - park echo , that replies seventeen times by day , and twenty by night ...
... Possessing more genu- ine modesty than the Milan echo , which Addison tells us will return the report of the pistol fifty - six times ; or than the famous Woodstock - park echo , that replies seventeen times by day , and twenty by night ...
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... possessed , cool , collected , and capable of making complicated calculations . The tempter does not generally assault him by very sudden and percepti- ble attacks . In this respect , the sensualist - strange as it may sound - has an ...
... possessed , cool , collected , and capable of making complicated calculations . The tempter does not generally assault him by very sudden and percepti- ble attacks . In this respect , the sensualist - strange as it may sound - has an ...
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... possess himself of omnipotent power ; because , confined by the laws of his being , his impious darings are impotent ; is he therefore blameless for attempting what he would , but is not able to effect ? Is his criminality thereby ...
... possess himself of omnipotent power ; because , confined by the laws of his being , his impious darings are impotent ; is he therefore blameless for attempting what he would , but is not able to effect ? Is his criminality thereby ...
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... possessed of life and intelligence and mere impas- sive matter ; for it is quite certain , that though man may be able to alter the course of a great river like the Danube - he cannot annihilate it , -he can- not prevent it from ebbing ...
... possessed of life and intelligence and mere impas- sive matter ; for it is quite certain , that though man may be able to alter the course of a great river like the Danube - he cannot annihilate it , -he can- not prevent it from ebbing ...
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... possessed of fore - know- ledge . How knows he that he is a burthen to socie- ty ? How is he sure that his successor ... possess a certain fore - knowledge of the fate that actually awaits him . But this is impossible . He may know what ...
... possessed of fore - know- ledge . How knows he that he is a burthen to socie- ty ? How is he sure that his successor ... possess a certain fore - knowledge of the fate that actually awaits him . But this is impossible . He may know what ...
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Page 169 - And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? 18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
Page 105 - Be ye angry, and sin not : let not the sun go down upon your wrath : neither give place to the devil.
Page 183 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? " And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.
Page 178 - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Page 209 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Page 192 - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Page 130 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Page 176 - Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Page 170 - Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest : go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Page 125 - Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances: it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest; they support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for the morrow.