The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1832 |
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... language , and a loose style of reasoning , in a subject in which the most careful accuracy of expression is most especially called for . The time is not , I trust , far distant , when it will be regarded as dis- creditable , not to ...
... language , and a loose style of reasoning , in a subject in which the most careful accuracy of expression is most especially called for . The time is not , I trust , far distant , when it will be regarded as dis- creditable , not to ...
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... language , —the enjoyment of in- stitutions conceived in the spirit of social improvement , -- the use of the general conveniences of civilized life , such as roads — these advan- tages , which the poorest man in England possesses or ...
... language , —the enjoyment of in- stitutions conceived in the spirit of social improvement , -- the use of the general conveniences of civilized life , such as roads — these advan- tages , which the poorest man in England possesses or ...
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... language . ' There is light enough for those whose main wish is to see ; and darkness ' enough to confound those of an opposite character ' . * 6 6 Speculative difficulties in religion of this description are not , however , an occasion ...
... language . ' There is light enough for those whose main wish is to see ; and darkness ' enough to confound those of an opposite character ' . * 6 6 Speculative difficulties in religion of this description are not , however , an occasion ...
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... language of the Apostle in the xiiith chapter of the Epistle to the Corinthians . And if the possession of real miraculous gifts was nothing better , without the moral fruits of the Spirit , than sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal ...
... language of the Apostle in the xiiith chapter of the Epistle to the Corinthians . And if the possession of real miraculous gifts was nothing better , without the moral fruits of the Spirit , than sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal ...
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... language as importing , that princes and legislators have neglected to employ political power and in- struments to support the dogmas and customs of a national reli- gion ? But , if they did not believe the religion , why should they ...
... language as importing , that princes and legislators have neglected to employ political power and in- struments to support the dogmas and customs of a national reli- gion ? But , if they did not believe the religion , why should they ...
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Page 6 - Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence: the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
Page 13 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding expedients for removing difficulties which never occur.
Page 38 - Let your women keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak ; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Page 540 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 52 - God by the weak pinions of our reason, but he has been pleased to descend to us , and what Socrates said of him, what Plato writ, and the rest of the Heathen philosophers of several nations, is all no more than the twilight of revelation, after the sun of it was set in the race of Noah.
Page 219 - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 192 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 209 - ... and one even put on a military cockade, in order to incite his parishioners to come forward in the public cause. The genuine principles of our admirable constitution were thought by many to be in imminent peril ; yet all who wrote in their defence were exposed to obloquy. A learned prelate asserted, in the House of Lords, that " the people had nothing to do with " the laws but to obey them," and his sentiment was loudly applauded.
Page 348 - Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican.
Page 245 - We have thought fit, by, and with, the Advice of our Privy Council, to...