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... result of its long converse with truth , the soul learns to recognise it with an almost instinctive sureness , and with a sensitiveness on which not the slightest shade of its beauty , not the most evanescent tone of its heavenly ...
... result of its long converse with truth , the soul learns to recognise it with an almost instinctive sureness , and with a sensitiveness on which not the slightest shade of its beauty , not the most evanescent tone of its heavenly ...
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... result of such a discipline , in all probability , be that which has sometimes been witnessed in the contact of barbarism with civilisation - profound melancholy in the remembrance of a lost social elevation , or recklessness in the ...
... result of such a discipline , in all probability , be that which has sometimes been witnessed in the contact of barbarism with civilisation - profound melancholy in the remembrance of a lost social elevation , or recklessness in the ...
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... result of natural causes , it too often happens that , with the superstitious recognition , all prac- tical acknowledgment of the divine presence and agency is lost . Accustomed to the observation of natural causes at work around them ...
... result of natural causes , it too often happens that , with the superstitious recognition , all prac- tical acknowledgment of the divine presence and agency is lost . Accustomed to the observation of natural causes at work around them ...
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... results is to be ascribed , not to the variety of outward means , but to the presence or absence of an inward in- fluence which alone can render them effectual , can we tell why that influence , given in one case , should be withheld in ...
... results is to be ascribed , not to the variety of outward means , but to the presence or absence of an inward in- fluence which alone can render them effectual , can we tell why that influence , given in one case , should be withheld in ...
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... result of material laws as fixed and stable as that by which the planets revolve , or the sun rises and sets . Science , indeed , with all its modern aids and appli- ances , has made but slight progress in the attempt to trace out the ...
... result of material laws as fixed and stable as that by which the planets revolve , or the sun rises and sets . Science , indeed , with all its modern aids and appli- ances , has made but slight progress in the attempt to trace out the ...
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Page 229 - Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Page 143 - Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death...
Page 102 - And he said, Thou canst not see my face : for there shall no man see me, and live.
Page 251 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 265 - And though it is said, this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality...