Major Writers of America, Volume 1Perry Miller Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 - Literary Criticism Selections from the writings of fifteen important American authors, including portions of novels, short stories, prose and poems. |
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Page 149
... sense of the divine and superlative excellency of the things of religion ; a real sense of the excellency of God and Jesus Christ , and of the work of redemption , and the ways and works of God revealed in the gospel . There is a divine ...
... sense of the divine and superlative excellency of the things of religion ; a real sense of the excellency of God and Jesus Christ , and of the work of redemption , and the ways and works of God revealed in the gospel . There is a divine ...
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... sense that the mind has , or a principle of new kind of perception or spiritual sensation , which is in its whole nature different from any former kinds of sensation of the mind , as tasting is di- verse from any of the other senses ...
... sense that the mind has , or a principle of new kind of perception or spiritual sensation , which is in its whole nature different from any former kinds of sensation of the mind , as tasting is di- verse from any of the other senses ...
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... sense of tasting can conceive of the sweet taste of honey , or a man without the sense of hearing can conceive of the melody of a tune , or a man born blind can have a notion of the beauty of the rainbow . From hence it may be surely ...
... sense of tasting can conceive of the sweet taste of honey , or a man without the sense of hearing can conceive of the melody of a tune , or a man born blind can have a notion of the beauty of the rainbow . From hence it may be surely ...
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