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... expectation of better ages . There has passed a transcendent impu'se into poetry ; and songs are now heard such as never before had stirred the air , exalting the spirit a with the rush of angelic plumes . Philosophy itself takes ...
... expectation of better ages . There has passed a transcendent impu'se into poetry ; and songs are now heard such as never before had stirred the air , exalting the spirit a with the rush of angelic plumes . Philosophy itself takes ...
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... expectation of life , in any complete and superlative sense , beyond the grave . In re- gard to this , at least , the striking remark of Coleridge is exactly true , that " across the night of Paganism philosophy flitted on , like the ...
... expectation of life , in any complete and superlative sense , beyond the grave . In re- gard to this , at least , the striking remark of Coleridge is exactly true , that " across the night of Paganism philosophy flitted on , like the ...
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... expectation . With all the energy of its command , and with the force of its exuberant life , the new religion taught whoever became its dis ciple his incessant personal responsibility for power ; and so it made faith in the unseen Lord ...
... expectation . With all the energy of its command , and with the force of its exuberant life , the new religion taught whoever became its dis ciple his incessant personal responsibility for power ; and so it made faith in the unseen Lord ...
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... expectation that these could not be bridged ; and it is the renown of his American translator , Dr. Bowditch , not that he turned French into English , which others might have equally done , but that , with skill and stubborn patience ...
... expectation that these could not be bridged ; and it is the renown of his American translator , Dr. Bowditch , not that he turned French into English , which others might have equally done , but that , with skill and stubborn patience ...
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... expectations which it inspires , till the coming centuries follow each other in the whiteness of holiness , on an earth filled with righteousness and love . For one , I believe that that time is to come . More than twelve years have ...
... expectations which it inspires , till the coming centuries follow each other in the whiteness of holiness , on an earth filled with righteousness and love . For one , I believe that that time is to come . More than twelve years have ...
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Page 493 - Fondly do we hope— fervently do we pray— that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.
Page 493 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 342 - I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins : for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
Page 639 - Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people...
Page 435 - And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things.
Page 421 - I and my sons will have received justice at your hands. The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Page 414 - For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.
Page 363 - I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge ; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
Page 375 - It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world an ideal character, which through all the changes of eighteen centuries, has inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned love, has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments, and conditions, has not only been the highest pattern of virtue but the strongest incentive to its practice...
Page 436 - Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world ; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead.