Discourses on Various SubjectsD. Felt & Company, 1835 - 299 sidor |
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... earth on which he is placed , fit for no higher destination than to be buried in its bosom , and there to find his end . The philosopher rejects what he calls the theologian's dream , about the fall . He says that man needed no fall in ...
... earth on which he is placed , fit for no higher destination than to be buried in its bosom , and there to find his end . The philosopher rejects what he calls the theologian's dream , about the fall . He says that man needed no fall in ...
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... earth , that are walking in the chains of mechanical habit or superstitious piety , who have not the knowledge to understand , nor the courage to seek , what they want . But the moment they do act freely , they act , says our objector ...
... earth , that are walking in the chains of mechanical habit or superstitious piety , who have not the knowledge to understand , nor the courage to seek , what they want . But the moment they do act freely , they act , says our objector ...
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... earth so eloquent as his grief . Read it in the pages of a Byron and a Burns . There is nothing in literature so touching as these lamentations of noble but erring natures , in the vain quest of a happiness which sin and the world can ...
... earth so eloquent as his grief . Read it in the pages of a Byron and a Burns . There is nothing in literature so touching as these lamentations of noble but erring natures , in the vain quest of a happiness which sin and the world can ...
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... earth , save those of benevolence , brings the only willing victim . What lofty revenge does the abused soul thus take , for its offences : never , no , never , in all its anger , punishing another , as in its justice , it punishes ...
... earth , save those of benevolence , brings the only willing victim . What lofty revenge does the abused soul thus take , for its offences : never , no , never , in all its anger , punishing another , as in its justice , it punishes ...
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... earth to penetrate and enkindle it . As I believe , that what I have now said , is a most legi- timate argument for the worth of human nature . a matter of fact , it will not be denied that such beings as I have represented , there are ...
... earth to penetrate and enkindle it . As I believe , that what I have now said , is a most legi- timate argument for the worth of human nature . a matter of fact , it will not be denied that such beings as I have represented , there are ...
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Sida 229 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Sida 292 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Sida 221 - But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Sida 174 - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear...
Sida 240 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Sida 296 - But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Sida 283 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Sida 256 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they ? with the years beyond the flood.
Sida 63 - It is profitable for the life that now is, and for that which is to come.
Sida 9 - Thou hast ordained ; what is man, that Thou art mindful of him ? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him ? For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet...