Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, Volume 10Nineteenth Century and After Limited., 1881 |
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... truth . Unspeakable is the damage and defilement I received from those coarse misguided tyrannous cubs . One way and another I had never been so wretched as here , and the first two years of my time I still count among the miserable of ...
... truth . Unspeakable is the damage and defilement I received from those coarse misguided tyrannous cubs . One way and another I had never been so wretched as here , and the first two years of my time I still count among the miserable of ...
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... truth and righteousness with a simple heart . You need not fear my studying too much . In fact , my prospects are so un- settled that I do not often sit down to books with all the zeal I am capable of . You are not to think I am fretful ...
... truth and righteousness with a simple heart . You need not fear my studying too much . In fact , my prospects are so un- settled that I do not often sit down to books with all the zeal I am capable of . You are not to think I am fretful ...
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... truth of it , like the truth of gravitation , which man must act upon or imme- diately suffer the consequences . But religion , as revealed in the Bible , passes beyond present conduct , penetrates all forms of thought , and takes ...
... truth of it , like the truth of gravitation , which man must act upon or imme- diately suffer the consequences . But religion , as revealed in the Bible , passes beyond present conduct , penetrates all forms of thought , and takes ...
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... truth of their creed was no more a matter of doubt than the presence of the sun in the sky , he must have seemed as if possessed . ' He could not read ; he wandered about the moors like a restless spirit . His mother was in agony about ...
... truth of their creed was no more a matter of doubt than the presence of the sun in the sky , he must have seemed as if possessed . ' He could not read ; he wandered about the moors like a restless spirit . His mother was in agony about ...
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... truth is , life is a thing formed for the average of men , and it is only in those parts of our nature which are of average possession that it can gratify . The higher parts of our nature find their entertainment in sympathising with ...
... truth is , life is a thing formed for the average of men , and it is only in those parts of our nature which are of average possession that it can gratify . The higher parts of our nature find their entertainment in sympathising with ...
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Page 432 - For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this ; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
Page 286 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, ' And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Page 11 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 716 - Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.
Page 815 - And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more.
Page 848 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 17 - Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
Page 845 - Nor is Paul's church more safe than Paul's churchyard : Nay, fly to altars, there they'll talk you dead ; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Page 848 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Page 144 - Created half to rise and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all, Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...