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... Bible the Most Ancient Literature Extant : its Representative Relation to the Oriental Mind . - Oriental Races not Effete . - The Bible the Regenerative Power in the Revival of the Oriental Mind . · • 224 LECTURE XVI . Study of the ...
... Bible the Most Ancient Literature Extant : its Representative Relation to the Oriental Mind . - Oriental Races not Effete . - The Bible the Regenerative Power in the Revival of the Oriental Mind . · • 224 LECTURE XVI . Study of the ...
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... Biblical Models . - Bearing of Inspiration on Literary Merit ; in What consists its Literary Superiority ? . 238 LECTURE XVII . Study of the Scriptures as Classics , concluded . - Professional Value of Biblical Models to a Preacher . - ...
... Biblical Models . - Bearing of Inspiration on Literary Merit ; in What consists its Literary Superiority ? . 238 LECTURE XVII . Study of the Scriptures as Classics , concluded . - Professional Value of Biblical Models to a Preacher . - ...
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... Bible - reader ; so that a quaint observer applies to them the old couplet in the primer , - - " Whales in the sea God's voice obey . " What is the secret of her power ? A roving evangelist whom three - fifths of the community despise ...
... Bible - reader ; so that a quaint observer applies to them the old couplet in the primer , - - " Whales in the sea God's voice obey . " What is the secret of her power ? A roving evangelist whom three - fifths of the community despise ...
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... Bible is almost wholly history and biography . Ab- stract knowledge is given in it only as interwoven with the wants and the experiences of once living gen- erations . God took out of the circle of universal his- LECT . II . ] TRUTH IN ...
... Bible is almost wholly history and biography . Ab- stract knowledge is given in it only as interwoven with the wants and the experiences of once living gen- erations . God took out of the circle of universal his- LECT . II . ] TRUTH IN ...
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... Bible . So all the great truths which have moved the world have been lived . They have been struck out by collis- ion of thought with the living necessities of the world . Monotheism exists only as an experience vital to living men : it ...
... Bible . So all the great truths which have moved the world have been lived . They have been struck out by collis- ion of thought with the living necessities of the world . Monotheism exists only as an experience vital to living men : it ...
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Page 241 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 165 - Nothing at all. What do you learn from a cookerybook? Something new, something that you did not know before, in every paragraph. But would you therefore put the wretched cookerybook on a higher level of estimation than the divine poem? What you owe to Milton is not any knowledge, of which a million separate items are still but a million of advancing steps on the same earthly level; what you owe is power, that is, exercise and expansion to your own latent capacity of sympathy with the infinite, where...
Page 241 - ... minds of the greatest poets in those countries too much to the bondage of definite form; from which the Hebrews were preserved by their abhorrence of idolatry. This abhorrence was almost as strong in our great epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitution of his mind. However imbued the surface might be with classical literature, he was a Hebrew in soul; and all things tended in him towards the sublime.