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... he will never be anything better than a frothy and empty declaimer . The same observations apply to the cases in which the various talents requisite for this very complex and difficult function are 10 OUR COLLEGES AND MINISTRY .
... he will never be anything better than a frothy and empty declaimer . The same observations apply to the cases in which the various talents requisite for this very complex and difficult function are 10 OUR COLLEGES AND MINISTRY .
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66 mean by " art " nothing more than the rules which must be observed to secure the judicious adaptation of the discourse to its true end ; and by " eloquence " nothing more than the clear , forcible , impressive exhibition of the truth ...
66 mean by " art " nothing more than the rules which must be observed to secure the judicious adaptation of the discourse to its true end ; and by " eloquence " nothing more than the clear , forcible , impressive exhibition of the truth ...
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... observations apply more particularly , of course , to such societies as are not immediately connected with any ... observed , that nearly all the conditions of a more efficient ministry , on which we have insisted so much , depend ...
... observations apply more particularly , of course , to such societies as are not immediately connected with any ... observed , that nearly all the conditions of a more efficient ministry , on which we have insisted so much , depend ...
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... observed , shew the opposition of the slave system to the genius and influence of Christianity . The one is , that as Christianity prevailed , it abolished the long - continued and widely - spread slavery of Greece and Rome : and the ...
... observed , shew the opposition of the slave system to the genius and influence of Christianity . The one is , that as Christianity prevailed , it abolished the long - continued and widely - spread slavery of Greece and Rome : and the ...
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... observation . Vestiges of the civil wars remained still apparent on the sur- face of society , in the coarseness of general manners , and the profound bitterness of party spirit . Personal violence attracted by no means the same ...
... observation . Vestiges of the civil wars remained still apparent on the sur- face of society , in the coarseness of general manners , and the profound bitterness of party spirit . Personal violence attracted by no means the same ...
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Page 164 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Page 234 - Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Page 260 - Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...
Page 99 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 239 - A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art : Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every Branch of Human Knowledge ; with the Derivation and Definition of all the Terms in General Use. Edited by WT BRANDE, FRSL and E.
Page 65 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 231 - The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
Page 483 - THE GREAT COMMISSION ; Or, the Christian Church constituted and charged to convey the Gospel to the World.
Page 166 - For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Page 251 - BRETHREN, in the Primitive Church there was a godly discipline, that, at the beginning of Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance, and punished in this world, that their souls might be saved in the day of the Lord; and that others, admonished by their example, might be the more afraid to offend.