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... common opinion , that a great man was to arise , and save the Church , and save the State . They looked back to Moses , a divine man of antiquity , whose great life had passed into the world , and to whom men had done honour , in ...
... common opinion , that a great man was to arise , and save the Church , and save the State . They looked back to Moses , a divine man of antiquity , whose great life had passed into the world , and to whom men had done honour , in ...
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... common . The Pharisees and the Sadducees had no great living and ruling ideas ; none I mean which represented man , his hopes , wishes , affections , his aspirations , and power of progress . That is no very rare case , perhaps 4 THE ...
... common . The Pharisees and the Sadducees had no great living and ruling ideas ; none I mean which represented man , his hopes , wishes , affections , his aspirations , and power of progress . That is no very rare case , perhaps 4 THE ...
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... common soul , into one immortal service of the universal God ; to see how this young Hebrew maid , deep - hearted , sensitive , enthusiastic , self - renouncing , intuitive of hea- venly truth , rich as a young vine , with clustering ...
... common soul , into one immortal service of the universal God ; to see how this young Hebrew maid , deep - hearted , sensitive , enthusiastic , self - renouncing , intuitive of hea- venly truth , rich as a young vine , with clustering ...
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... common theory of miraculous revelations , the race could not have obtained it in this way , for according to that theory the heathen had no such revelations ; yet we find this doctrine the settled belief of the whole heathen world . The ...
... common theory of miraculous revelations , the race could not have obtained it in this way , for according to that theory the heathen had no such revelations ; yet we find this doctrine the settled belief of the whole heathen world . The ...
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... perchance dreamed of last night whose being was only a being - dreamed . These are ex- ceptional men , and help prove the common rule , that man trusts his senses and believes an outward world . Yet 2 IMMORTAL LIFE . 17.
... perchance dreamed of last night whose being was only a being - dreamed . These are ex- ceptional men , and help prove the common rule , that man trusts his senses and believes an outward world . Yet 2 IMMORTAL LIFE . 17.
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Page 208 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main — why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Page 1 - Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? 49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
Page 34 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came ; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Page 44 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Page 208 - All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarmed.
Page 191 - tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desires, And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
Page 5 - We know that God spake unto Moses ; but as for this fellow, we know not whence he is.
Page 245 - Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass, but my madness, speaks : It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, While rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Page 210 - Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
Page 129 - That chang'd through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the' ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the tree* ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...