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... feelings may themselves gain few or no proselytes , and feelings be a source of crimes , if they overpower which excite little or no sympathy - the ( as they frequently do ) the sense of neglect of all the usual duties by which justice ...
... feelings may themselves gain few or no proselytes , and feelings be a source of crimes , if they overpower which excite little or no sympathy - the ( as they frequently do ) the sense of neglect of all the usual duties by which justice ...
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... feeling . In a subsequent part of his sermon , Dr. Parr atones à little for this over - zealous depreciation of the ... feelings of a little too much ; for it is an objection the passions ; but in a studious arrange- to political and ...
... feeling . In a subsequent part of his sermon , Dr. Parr atones à little for this over - zealous depreciation of the ... feelings of a little too much ; for it is an objection the passions ; but in a studious arrange- to political and ...
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... more than any man I ever knew , -- was full of practical wisdom , and never indulged in contemptuous feelings against his in- feriors in understanding . + Page 315 . Sermons are so seldom examined with any considerable degree of DR .
... more than any man I ever knew , -- was full of practical wisdom , and never indulged in contemptuous feelings against his in- feriors in understanding . + Page 315 . Sermons are so seldom examined with any considerable degree of DR .
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... feelings does not recognise in these images of silver wings , doves and honey , the genuine language of the passions ? If Mr. Lewis is really in earnest in pointing out the coincidence between his own dramatic sentiments and the Gospel ...
... feelings does not recognise in these images of silver wings , doves and honey , the genuine language of the passions ? If Mr. Lewis is really in earnest in pointing out the coincidence between his own dramatic sentiments and the Gospel ...
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... feelings of national vanity , and cultivated that patient humility which builds general inferences only upon the repetition of 2ndly . An affectation of quickness individual facts . Everything he sees in observation , an intuitive ...
... feelings of national vanity , and cultivated that patient humility which builds general inferences only upon the repetition of 2ndly . An affectation of quickness individual facts . Everything he sees in observation , an intuitive ...
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Page 219 - The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and works, to faith, and calling upon God ; wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 117 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Page 135 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 5 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 135 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other.
Page 151 - His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers — to be taxed no more.
Page 113 - The object is, to give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures — habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy, — occupations that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and therefore death less terrible...
Page 219 - Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk;) but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam...
Page 170 - ... forensic skill, elegant literature, and all the highest attainments of human genius, were within his reach ; but he thought the noblest occupation of a man was to make other men happy and free ; and in that straight line he went on for fifty years, without one side-look, without one yielding thought, without one motive in his heart which he might not have laid open to the view of God and man.
Page 259 - Latin ; and then go on to another fable, till he be also perfect in that, not omitting what he is already perfect in, but sometimes reviewing that, to. keep it in his memory. And when he comes to write, let these be set him for copies; which, with the exercise of his hand; will also advance him in Latin. This being a more imperfect way than by talking Latin unto him, the formation of the verbs first, and afterwards the de.clensions of the nouns...