The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany, Volume 541867 |
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... tion of many of the baser and more disgusting stories imputed to the deities as being really misunderstood and forgotten parables of the phenonena of nature . It takes a nightmare off the mind to find that those were not inventions of ...
... tion of many of the baser and more disgusting stories imputed to the deities as being really misunderstood and forgotten parables of the phenonena of nature . It takes a nightmare off the mind to find that those were not inventions of ...
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... tion , and we believe that wherever the names may have come from , the Greek mind had added the idea . Zeus was indeed the sky , but he was also Almighty Power and Fatherhood ; Athene was the Eastern Ahâna , or the Dawn , springing from ...
... tion , and we believe that wherever the names may have come from , the Greek mind had added the idea . Zeus was indeed the sky , but he was also Almighty Power and Fatherhood ; Athene was the Eastern Ahâna , or the Dawn , springing from ...
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... tion of all things . But as Christianity was at hand to satisfy- if it did not form - all the better longings of the Teuton , it is to Greece that we turn for that literature that shows how great minds strove to mould wild old tradition ...
... tion of all things . But as Christianity was at hand to satisfy- if it did not form - all the better longings of the Teuton , it is to Greece that we turn for that literature that shows how great minds strove to mould wild old tradition ...
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... tion assumes in the history of doctrine , it will be needful in the first place to inquire into the beginning of the Eucharistic con- troversy , and to trace out the earliest teaching of that mate- rialistic theory , against which John ...
... tion assumes in the history of doctrine , it will be needful in the first place to inquire into the beginning of the Eucharistic con- troversy , and to trace out the earliest teaching of that mate- rialistic theory , against which John ...
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... tion of Modern Europe . Lost sight of between the great works of the Fathers and the ingenious speculations of the Schoolmen , it seems to leave the intermediate age altogether blank . But in the disturbed and chaotic state of civil ...
... tion of Modern Europe . Lost sight of between the great works of the Fathers and the ingenious speculations of the Schoolmen , it seems to leave the intermediate age altogether blank . But in the disturbed and chaotic state of civil ...
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Page 56 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 338 - Now you are Queen of the mightiest land of Europe, in your hand lies the happiness of millions. May Heaven assist you, and strengthen you with its strength, in that high but difficult task.
Page 145 - The foregoing remarks lead me to say a few words on the protest lately made by some naturalists, against the utilitarian doctrine that every detail of structure has been produced for the good of its possessor. They believe that many structures have been created for...
Page 330 - I am sitting by Louischen's bed. She was yesterday morning safely and quickly delivered of a little boy. Siebold, the accoucheuse, had only been called at three, and at six the little one gave his first cry in this world, and looked about like a little squirrel with a pair of large black eyes.* At a quarter to seven I heard the tramp of a horse.
Page 304 - God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven : for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons...
Page 330 - She was a moat remarkable woman, with a most powerful, energetic, almost masculine mind, accompanied with great tenderness of heart, and extreme love for nature.
Page 343 - In your position, which may and will, perhaps, become in future even more difficult in a political point of view, you could not exist without having a happy and an agreeable interieur.
Page 64 - Monday's child is fair of face/ Tuesday's child is full of grace/ Wednesday's child is full of woe/ Thursday's child has far to go/ Friday's child is loving and giving/ Saturday's child works hard for a living/ But the child that is born on the Sabbath Day/ Is bonny, and blithe, and good, and gay.
Page 342 - This letter will, I am sure, give you pleasure, for you have always shown and taken so warm an interest in all that concerns me. My mind is quite made up, and I told Albert this morning of it. The warm affection he showed me on learning this gave me great pleasure. He seems perfection, and I think I have the prospect of very great happiness before me.
Page 339 - He considers that troubles are inseparable from all human positions, and that, therefore, if one must be subject to plagues and annoyances, it is better to be so for some great or worthy object than for trifles and miseries. I have told him that his great youth would make it necessary to postpone the marriage for a few years. ... I found him very sensible on all these points. But one thing he observed with truth. 'I am ready,' he said, 'to submit to this delay, if I have only some certain assurance...