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... opinion , of taste , of mental habit ; changes in the proportion of the spiritual to the physical in your nature ; changes inevitable to progress from the infancy to the maturity of godly principle within you ; any and every change ...
... opinion , of taste , of mental habit ; changes in the proportion of the spiritual to the physical in your nature ; changes inevitable to progress from the infancy to the maturity of godly principle within you ; any and every change ...
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... opinions in our hearing . Principles and practices grow up in a community , and pass unnoticed by the ministry for years , in some cases , because the ministry know nothing of their existence . For illustration , take the change which ...
... opinions in our hearing . Principles and practices grow up in a community , and pass unnoticed by the ministry for years , in some cases , because the ministry know nothing of their existence . For illustration , take the change which ...
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... opinion in a multitude of our churches only laughs at such relics of a monastic age . The rising generation are in ... opinions and temper of a people , which a secluded clergy may not detect till those changes develop themselves in some ...
... opinion in a multitude of our churches only laughs at such relics of a monastic age . The rising generation are in ... opinions and temper of a people , which a secluded clergy may not detect till those changes develop themselves in some ...
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... are indul- ging , and the pursuits in which they are expending the force of their being . An opinion was reported to me a few years ago as coming from the superintendent of the police of one of our Atlantic cities , to this effect ; that ,
... are indul- ging , and the pursuits in which they are expending the force of their being . An opinion was reported to me a few years ago as coming from the superintendent of the police of one of our Atlantic cities , to this effect ; that ,
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... opinion which our age has witnessed . The extreme of it came to my notice , a few years before the civil war , in the case of a very worthy man , and an advocate of reticence in the church on the question of American slavery . To test ...
... opinion which our age has witnessed . The extreme of it came to my notice , a few years before the civil war , in the case of a very worthy man , and an advocate of reticence in the church on the question of American slavery . To test ...
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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.