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... " Westminster Review " in October , 1857 . The rest have been contributed at various times during the last four years , to " Fraser's Magazine . ” May 1 , 1871 . J. A. F. CALVINISM CONTENTS . VA BISHOP OF THE TWElfth CentuRY FATHER.
... " Westminster Review " in October , 1857 . The rest have been contributed at various times during the last four years , to " Fraser's Magazine . ” May 1 , 1871 . J. A. F. CALVINISM CONTENTS . VA BISHOP OF THE TWElfth CentuRY FATHER.
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James Anthony Froude. CALVINISM CONTENTS . VA BISHOP OF THE TWElfth CentuRY FATHER NEWMAN ON " THE GRAMMAR OF ASSENT " CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF PROTESTANTISM . ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES · A FORTNIGHT IN KERRY . PART . I. RECIPROCAL ...
James Anthony Froude. CALVINISM CONTENTS . VA BISHOP OF THE TWElfth CentuRY FATHER NEWMAN ON " THE GRAMMAR OF ASSENT " CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF PROTESTANTISM . ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES · A FORTNIGHT IN KERRY . PART . I. RECIPROCAL ...
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... bishops and teachers was exhausted in spinning endless cobwebs of metaphysical theology . Human life at the best is enveloped in darkness ; we know not what we are or whither we are bound . Religion is the light by which we are to see ...
... bishops and teachers was exhausted in spinning endless cobwebs of metaphysical theology . Human life at the best is enveloped in darkness ; we know not what we are or whither we are bound . Religion is the light by which we are to see ...
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... cometh from afar : Not in entire forgetfulness , Not in utter nakedness , But trailing clouds of glory do we come , From heaven , which is our home . " - A BISHOP OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY.1 To the skeptical student Calvinism . 53.
... cometh from afar : Not in entire forgetfulness , Not in utter nakedness , But trailing clouds of glory do we come , From heaven , which is our home . " - A BISHOP OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY.1 To the skeptical student Calvinism . 53.
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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.