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Page 93
... human soil , needs careful protection at first . Cowper had lacked that protection , and had to pay the penalty now . That he had no real liking for his profession made matters worse . To deny a man free - will is to make him less than ...
... human soil , needs careful protection at first . Cowper had lacked that protection , and had to pay the penalty now . That he had no real liking for his profession made matters worse . To deny a man free - will is to make him less than ...
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... human science , ' as Isaac Taylor put it , “ was given to mankind in a finished form , and is to be learned , not improved ; and though the most capacious human mind is nobly employed while concentrating all its vigour upon the ...
... human science , ' as Isaac Taylor put it , “ was given to mankind in a finished form , and is to be learned , not improved ; and though the most capacious human mind is nobly employed while concentrating all its vigour upon the ...
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... human nature . " We are reminded that Cowper , " not with savage bitterness , but with a gentleness which healed ... humanity , confined to no single type or class , outflowed into an interest in the nation , and from that into all ...
... human nature . " We are reminded that Cowper , " not with savage bitterness , but with a gentleness which healed ... humanity , confined to no single type or class , outflowed into an interest in the nation , and from that into all ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
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