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light before us , we are able to find our way through all the different names , and the different definitions applied to each at different periods of the history of the Primitive Church . The terms bishop and elder , or presbyter ...
light before us , we are able to find our way through all the different names , and the different definitions applied to each at different periods of the history of the Primitive Church . The terms bishop and elder , or presbyter ...
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Yea , but even as in darkness , candle - light may serve to guide men's steps , which to use in the day were madness ; so when God had once delivered his law in writing , it may be , they are of opinion , that then it must needs be sin ...
Yea , but even as in darkness , candle - light may serve to guide men's steps , which to use in the day were madness ; so when God had once delivered his law in writing , it may be , they are of opinion , that then it must needs be sin ...
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ladies incensed are not nice in the choice of terms , and a pickling tub is no light thing to throw at the head of a victim . " Ugh ! ugh ! " cried Tabitha , making spiteful grimaces , quite close to my unfortunate father's nose .
ladies incensed are not nice in the choice of terms , and a pickling tub is no light thing to throw at the head of a victim . " Ugh ! ugh ! " cried Tabitha , making spiteful grimaces , quite close to my unfortunate father's nose .
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... and the successive encroachments of despotism , have modified all the relations between people and people ; so that what was formerly in the shade , is now in the light , and what once was light , is now become darkness : -thus ...
... and the successive encroachments of despotism , have modified all the relations between people and people ; so that what was formerly in the shade , is now in the light , and what once was light , is now become darkness : -thus ...
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To throw more light on these ideas , let us pass to the application of our theory . Let us suppose Italy independent , and again attacked by her old and constant enemy , Austria , and that the Austrian army occupies Lombardy .
To throw more light on these ideas , let us pass to the application of our theory . Let us suppose Italy independent , and again attacked by her old and constant enemy , Austria , and that the Austrian army occupies Lombardy .
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Page 472 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 484 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 115 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 198 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 483 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 202 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 485 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Page 203 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Page 202 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 168 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
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| Title | The Monthly magazine |
| Author | Monthly literary register |
| Published | 1841 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 20 Oct 2006 |
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