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... occasion is as really needful for the effect , as is the cause ; it is the OCCASIONAL CAUSE . The event may have taken place , perhaps , without that specific occasion , and it may not . The fact remains un- altered ; the men who have ...
... occasion is as really needful for the effect , as is the cause ; it is the OCCASIONAL CAUSE . The event may have taken place , perhaps , without that specific occasion , and it may not . The fact remains un- altered ; the men who have ...
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... occasion to despise our clergy- men ; for the genius of Puritanism requires that its minis- ters be men of stature . Never let our literary journalists have reason to adopt , in describing our pulpit , the supercil- ious tone which has ...
... occasion to despise our clergy- men ; for the genius of Puritanism requires that its minis- ters be men of stature . Never let our literary journalists have reason to adopt , in describing our pulpit , the supercil- ious tone which has ...
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... occasion ? B. It had been better .. A. Ought he not , therefore , to have traced the subject a little higher , by entering into the true occasion and design of the Psalm , and explaining the context ? Was it not proper for him to ...
... occasion ? B. It had been better .. A. Ought he not , therefore , to have traced the subject a little higher , by entering into the true occasion and design of the Psalm , and explaining the context ? Was it not proper for him to ...
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... occasions . But what would become of eloquence if it were stript of such ornaments ? Would you confine everybody to the plainness of country preachers ? Such men are useful among the common people ; but persons of distinction have more ...
... occasions . But what would become of eloquence if it were stript of such ornaments ? Would you confine everybody to the plainness of country preachers ? Such men are useful among the common people ; but persons of distinction have more ...
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... virtue would be upon all occasions exposed to the armed malice of the wicked . — Bishop Sprat's Hist . of the Royal Society , p . iii . duced to people's health and strength ? I do not 6- DIALOGUES CONCERNING ELOQUENCE . 61.
... virtue would be upon all occasions exposed to the armed malice of the wicked . — Bishop Sprat's Hist . of the Royal Society , p . iii . duced to people's health and strength ? I do not 6- DIALOGUES CONCERNING ELOQUENCE . 61.
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Page 149 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Page 375 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 356 - For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Page 439 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 417 - For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Page 136 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 439 - Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Page 349 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page 16 - While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name : those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the Son of Perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Page 121 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...