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... as a Literary Classic , continued . - The Bible incorporated into all Living Literature ; Spenser ; Shakspeare ; Milton ; Wordsworth ; English Hymnology ; Forensic Elo- PAGE quence . — Debt of Infidelity to the Scriptures.
... as a Literary Classic , continued . - The Bible incorporated into all Living Literature ; Spenser ; Shakspeare ; Milton ; Wordsworth ; English Hymnology ; Forensic Elo- PAGE quence . — Debt of Infidelity to the Scriptures.
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... Scriptures . — Intrinsic Superiority of 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 ...
... Scriptures . — Intrinsic Superiority of 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 ...
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... scriptural and rational , and thus aiding in building up a public opinion which should have deserved the sympathies of Christian men . Probably it was once in the power of the Christian thinkers of Germany , clerical and laical , to ...
... scriptural and rational , and thus aiding in building up a public opinion which should have deserved the sympathies of Christian men . Probably it was once in the power of the Christian thinkers of Germany , clerical and laical , to ...
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... Scriptures represent it ; viz . , saints and sinners , friends of God and enemies of God . Much of the power of the pulpit depends on assuming the reality of that distinction . One of the chief objects of church organization is to make ...
... Scriptures represent it ; viz . , saints and sinners , friends of God and enemies of God . Much of the power of the pulpit depends on assuming the reality of that distinction . One of the chief objects of church organization is to make ...
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... scriptural ideal of what the church should be and of what the world is . Any thing which enervates the pulpit in that work must tend to fuse the church and the world together in the judgment even of thoughtful men . The reality of ...
... scriptural ideal of what the church should be and of what the world is . Any thing which enervates the pulpit in that work must tend to fuse the church and the world together in the judgment even of thoughtful men . The reality of ...
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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.