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... true , who would persuade the Church to hold her hand , —and not to obtrude upon Asia the creeds of Europe , nor , on the other hand , to offer dogma and motives drawn from im- palpable considerations to savage tribes whose need is ...
... true , who would persuade the Church to hold her hand , —and not to obtrude upon Asia the creeds of Europe , nor , on the other hand , to offer dogma and motives drawn from im- palpable considerations to savage tribes whose need is ...
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... true virtue practised and taught by the proud heir of an Indian king , and in his eyes a greater glory than the conquest of the world . It is true these things are tainted and disfigured , even more than in Confucianism , by heavily ...
... true virtue practised and taught by the proud heir of an Indian king , and in his eyes a greater glory than the conquest of the world . It is true these things are tainted and disfigured , even more than in Confucianism , by heavily ...
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... true Buddhist . Amongst these Confucian - Buddhists it has been my lot to live and to converse for many years . And apart from the sceptical suggestions whose chilling echoes reached me there from time to time from the West , it has ...
... true Buddhist . Amongst these Confucian - Buddhists it has been my lot to live and to converse for many years . And apart from the sceptical suggestions whose chilling echoes reached me there from time to time from the West , it has ...
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... true . " But what then ? There is nothing new either in the objection of the heathen , or in the sympathy felt for them by our Christian Gnostics . The educated heathen have ever " sought after wisdom ; and in the very first age of ...
... true . " But what then ? There is nothing new either in the objection of the heathen , or in the sympathy felt for them by our Christian Gnostics . The educated heathen have ever " sought after wisdom ; and in the very first age of ...
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... true foundation for human life ! Meanwhile it may be in- teresting to glance at the moral teaching which , for some centuries past , has been popular amidst all classes of the thirty millions of the Mikado's empire . The following ...
... true foundation for human life ! Meanwhile it may be in- teresting to glance at the moral teaching which , for some centuries past , has been popular amidst all classes of the thirty millions of the Mikado's empire . The following ...
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Page 660 - Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Page 518 - And he took bread, and • gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body, which is given for you : This do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new Testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
Page 217 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 335 - For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge ! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Page 659 - Fear not Daniel; for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo. Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
Page 652 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure ; even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page 156 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
Page 406 - They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear...
Page 575 - Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three : and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
Page 657 - Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.