The British Controversialist and Impartial Inquirer, Volumes 3-4Houlston and Stonemen, 1852 - Great Britain |
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... desire to influence their fellows by their voices or their pens . The " Prologomena " on European Philosophy will show how extensive is the field over which the projected series of papers will range , and how varied , and yet , withal ...
... desire to influence their fellows by their voices or their pens . The " Prologomena " on European Philosophy will show how extensive is the field over which the projected series of papers will range , and how varied , and yet , withal ...
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... desire to widen the range of our influence by decreasing its depth and beneficial power . We believe that there is a very large and rapidly increasing class of persons who are prepared to appreciate our journal , and we ask for its ...
... desire to widen the range of our influence by decreasing its depth and beneficial power . We believe that there is a very large and rapidly increasing class of persons who are prepared to appreciate our journal , and we ask for its ...
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... desire to appear , that we are but faintly able to modify and alter it as we could wish . Now , though we know that there is a common proverb which asserts that " Example is a superior instructor to Precept , " yet we humbly hope , that ...
... desire to appear , that we are but faintly able to modify and alter it as we could wish . Now , though we know that there is a common proverb which asserts that " Example is a superior instructor to Precept , " yet we humbly hope , that ...
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... desire and long - cherished purpose of going from Rome into the west . " Whensoever , " says he , " I take my journey into Spain , I will come to you . " - " I will come by you into Spain . " To this add the following remarkable and ...
... desire and long - cherished purpose of going from Rome into the west . " Whensoever , " says he , " I take my journey into Spain , I will come to you . " - " I will come by you into Spain . " To this add the following remarkable and ...
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... desire to bend the neck of this country to dissolution of the bands of government , and reduce the people to anarchy . " No ; the Jew must be considered as a stranger within our gates , although we may still offer for him and ourselves ...
... desire to bend the neck of this country to dissolution of the bands of government , and reduce the people to anarchy . " No ; the Jew must be considered as a stranger within our gates , although we may still offer for him and ourselves ...
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Page 357 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 6 - The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed...
Page 3 - Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Page 376 - If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us; but if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Page 210 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Page 357 - From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Page 182 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need...
Page 399 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too, Theme this but little heard of among Men, The external World is fitted to the Mind ; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish : — this is our high argument.
Page 357 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession...
Page 4 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.