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... ignorance of some of our ministry on the subject . A certain Methodist conference once adopted a minute against the playing of croquet , and were supported in it by so clear - headed a man as President Finney ; ap- LECT . II . ] WASTE ...
... ignorance of some of our ministry on the subject . A certain Methodist conference once adopted a minute against the playing of croquet , and were supported in it by so clear - headed a man as President Finney ; ap- LECT . II . ] WASTE ...
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... ignorance as a back- ground . Authors treated them as a superior class . They were cajoled by an obsequious recognition of their caste . Both authors and readers held themselves as retainers of the nobility with an abjectness which ...
... ignorance as a back- ground . Authors treated them as a superior class . They were cajoled by an obsequious recognition of their caste . Both authors and readers held themselves as retainers of the nobility with an abjectness which ...
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... ignorant and debased as it is , can not rid itself of them . It surges around them angrily and blindly . The more obstinately the mind above crowds them down , or holds still in contempt of them , the more tempestuously , often ...
... ignorant and debased as it is , can not rid itself of them . It surges around them angrily and blindly . The more obstinately the mind above crowds them down , or holds still in contempt of them , the more tempestuously , often ...
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... ignorance and debasement , will struggle for egress . They will find their way out wherever they can discover the weakest spot in the shell with which conservative society becomes crusted The Providence of God certainly works some ...
... ignorance and debasement , will struggle for egress . They will find their way out wherever they can discover the weakest spot in the shell with which conservative society becomes crusted The Providence of God certainly works some ...
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... ignorant a people are , the more fuss they make about the want of mental gifts and acquisitions in their pastors . They will dismiss a really learned pastor , and complain that they are not " fed , " when his sermons have " meat ...
... ignorant a people are , the more fuss they make about the want of mental gifts and acquisitions in their pastors . They will dismiss a really learned pastor , and complain that they are not " fed , " when his sermons have " meat ...
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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.