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... sacred ambition . Though we now peruse with wonder and curiosity the story ( for example ) of the Crusades , there are very few readers in the present day - perhaps hardly one , who can rouse up a sympathy with that vehement feeling ...
... sacred ambition . Though we now peruse with wonder and curiosity the story ( for example ) of the Crusades , there are very few readers in the present day - perhaps hardly one , who can rouse up a sympathy with that vehement feeling ...
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... sacred honours . - We recapitulate our three elements of Fana- ticism , which ( as we assume ) will be disco- verable , in different modes or proportions , under all forms of religious extravagance- namely The supposition of malignity ...
... sacred honours . - We recapitulate our three elements of Fana- ticism , which ( as we assume ) will be disco- verable , in different modes or proportions , under all forms of religious extravagance- namely The supposition of malignity ...
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... sacred spot ? —But what usage more fatal , if we look at its pro- ducts through a course of ages ? Well may it be questioned whether the most ferocious of the ancient superstitions ever made such havoc of human life as have the tranquil ...
... sacred spot ? —But what usage more fatal , if we look at its pro- ducts through a course of ages ? Well may it be questioned whether the most ferocious of the ancient superstitions ever made such havoc of human life as have the tranquil ...
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... sacred dramas in the streets and squares of the towns through which they passed . Ceux , says a French writer , qui revenoient de Jerusalem et de la Terre Sainte , & c . . . . . composoient des cantiques sur leurs voyages , y méloient ...
... sacred dramas in the streets and squares of the towns through which they passed . Ceux , says a French writer , qui revenoient de Jerusalem et de la Terre Sainte , & c . . . . . composoient des cantiques sur leurs voyages , y méloient ...
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... sacred cause of religious freedom ! Ah ! how like is man to man , strip him only of a garb ! -Take now our fervent youth , and immure him a year or two with twenty like himself , in some dim seclu- sion - there work upon his passions ...
... sacred cause of religious freedom ! Ah ! how like is man to man , strip him only of a garb ! -Take now our fervent youth , and immure him a year or two with twenty like himself , in some dim seclu- sion - there work upon his passions ...
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Page 423 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves .to the Lord, To serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, To be his servants, Every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, And taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, And make them joyful in my house of prayer: Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; For mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
Page 410 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...
Page 509 - The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
Page 474 - For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah...
Page 390 - Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations, the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Page 422 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Page 420 - GOD be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us. That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
Page 404 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto Me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hateth: they are a trouble unto Me; I am weary to bear them.
Page 408 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your GOD. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Page 407 - Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for" the time to come for ever and ever...