Short Studies on Great Subjects, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1872 - English essays |
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... better account of the situation of man than in the illustra- tion of St. Paul , " Hath not the potter power over the clay , to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor ? " If Arminianism most commends itself to our feelings ...
... better account of the situation of man than in the illustra- tion of St. Paul , " Hath not the potter power over the clay , to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor ? " If Arminianism most commends itself to our feelings ...
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... better sort of persons would find existence altogether unendurable . This is what the Greeks meant by the ' Avάyêη or destiny , which at the bottom is no other than moral Providence . Prome- theus chained on the rock is the counterpart ...
... better sort of persons would find existence altogether unendurable . This is what the Greeks meant by the ' Avάyêη or destiny , which at the bottom is no other than moral Providence . Prome- theus chained on the rock is the counterpart ...
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... better sort of men there are two elementary convictions ; that there is over all things an un- sleeping , inflexible , all - ordering , just power , and that this power governs the world by laws which can be seen in their effects , and ...
... better sort of men there are two elementary convictions ; that there is over all things an un- sleeping , inflexible , all - ordering , just power , and that this power governs the world by laws which can be seen in their effects , and ...
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... better side , and stronger because it has been better . I am not upholding Mahomet as if he had been a perfect man , or the Koran as a second Bible . The crescent was no sun , nor even a complete moon reigning full - orbed in the night ...
... better side , and stronger because it has been better . I am not upholding Mahomet as if he had been a perfect man , or the Koran as a second Bible . The crescent was no sun , nor even a complete moon reigning full - orbed in the night ...
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... better life , should exert a mysterious mechanical influence upon the character ? If regeneration by baptism , however , with its kindred imaginations , was not true , innocence of intention could not prevent the natural consequences of ...
... better life , should exert a mysterious mechanical influence upon the character ? If regeneration by baptism , however , with its kindred imaginations , was not true , innocence of intention could not prevent the natural consequences of ...
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Page 23 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 110 - ... no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion.
Page 363 - Whoever travels this country, and observes the face of nature, or the faces and habits and dwellings of the natives, will hardly think himself in a land, where law, religion, or common humanity is professed.
Page 24 - O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid, did. Agr: O, rare for Antony! Eno: Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 95 - If, as is the case, we feel responsibility, are ashamed, are frightened, at transgressing the voice of conscience, this implies that there is One to whom we are responsible, before whom we are ashamed, whose claims upon us we fear.
Page 109 - It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony ; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature.
Page 96 - The wicked flees, when no one pursueth;" then why does he flee? whence his terror? who is it that he sees in solitude, in darkness, in the hidden chambers of his heart? If the cause of these emotions does not belong to this visible world, the Object to which his perception is directed must be Supernatural and Divine; and thus the phenomena of Conscience, as a dictate, avail to impress the imagination with the picture of a Supreme Governor, a Judge, holy, just, powerful, all-seeing, retributive, and...
Page 31 - In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats...
Page 456 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.