The Christian Ambassador, Volume 13Richard Davies, 1875 |
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... received , for so long a period , by the thoughtful public . In this respect his example has been high and salutary . In 1835 Emerson was married to his second wife , Miss Lidian Jackson , of Plymouth , Mass . , and fixed his permanent ...
... received , for so long a period , by the thoughtful public . In this respect his example has been high and salutary . In 1835 Emerson was married to his second wife , Miss Lidian Jackson , of Plymouth , Mass . , and fixed his permanent ...
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... received such a shock that her reason gave way , and in a few weeks after , the poor imbecile was placed an inmate in a lunatic asylum . A shriek of horror passed through the dense assembly . In frenzied terror they bowed before a huge ...
... received such a shock that her reason gave way , and in a few weeks after , the poor imbecile was placed an inmate in a lunatic asylum . A shriek of horror passed through the dense assembly . In frenzied terror they bowed before a huge ...
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... received much intellectual stimulus during their captivity from their contact with Persia . For their know- ledge of super - mundane truth they were chiefly indebted to a special Divine revelation , which in itself may partly account ...
... received much intellectual stimulus during their captivity from their contact with Persia . For their know- ledge of super - mundane truth they were chiefly indebted to a special Divine revelation , which in itself may partly account ...
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... received much assistance from Christianity . This , then , is the one great weakness of human philosophy . Christianity , however , satisfactorily meets this want ; it shows , not only that a cognition of God is possible , but how it ...
... received much assistance from Christianity . This , then , is the one great weakness of human philosophy . Christianity , however , satisfactorily meets this want ; it shows , not only that a cognition of God is possible , but how it ...
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... received from some other source to maintain the humbler forms which yield the supply of food for the higher members of the colony . Some have suggested that certain animal forms may have the power of decomposing water , carbon dioxide ...
... received from some other source to maintain the humbler forms which yield the supply of food for the higher members of the colony . Some have suggested that certain animal forms may have the power of decomposing water , carbon dioxide ...
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Page 16 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Page 285 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.
Page 216 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy: but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you...
Page 272 - Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
Page 317 - Although my house be not so with God; Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For this is all my salvation, and all my desire, Although he make it not to grow.
Page 357 - Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost...
Page 357 - Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Page 200 - ... all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind; that their being is to be perceived or known; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some Eternal Spirit...
Page 84 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 9 - There is a deeper fact in the soul than compensation, to wit, its own nature. The soul is not a compensation, but a life. The soul is.