The Boston Quarterly Review, Volume 1Benjamin H. Greene, 1838 |
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... his own individual experience . All are prone to ex- aggerate , more or less , the importance of what has happened to themselves . This it is altogether likely VOL . I. NO . I. 1 - is the case with me . Yet in my No Introductory Remarks.
... his own individual experience . All are prone to ex- aggerate , more or less , the importance of what has happened to themselves . This it is altogether likely VOL . I. NO . I. 1 - is the case with me . Yet in my No Introductory Remarks.
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... less than they imagine . There is a Power above man , call it Fate , Necessity , or God , that carries all things along as they should and must go , without any deference to individuals , and without any aid from human volitions . What ...
... less than they imagine . There is a Power above man , call it Fate , Necessity , or God , that carries all things along as they should and must go , without any deference to individuals , and without any aid from human volitions . What ...
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... less aristocracy than any other of our cities , and is more truly democratic in its practice . One may indeed see now and then the representative of a by - gone generation , walking the streets with an antique air and dress , but he is ...
... less aristocracy than any other of our cities , and is more truly democratic in its practice . One may indeed see now and then the representative of a by - gone generation , walking the streets with an antique air and dress , but he is ...
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... less , is the same , just as much the truth before as after we become acquainted with it . The time when , or the individual by whom it is made known do not affect it . The age in which it is first revealed can add nothing to its ...
... less , is the same , just as much the truth before as after we become acquainted with it . The time when , or the individual by whom it is made known do not affect it . The age in which it is first revealed can add nothing to its ...
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... less true on that account . If it be not true , the fact , that it was taught about eighteen hundred years ago by Jesus of Nazareth , cannot make it true . In order to determine whether it be true or not , it is needless to inquire when ...
... less true on that account . If it be not true , the fact , that it was taught about eighteen hundred years ago by Jesus of Nazareth , cannot make it true . In order to determine whether it be true or not , it is needless to inquire when ...
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Page 9 - Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
Page 189 - But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Page 249 - An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures'.
Page 151 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 270 - And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven : and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.
Page 103 - The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around ; brooded thereon ; gave it the new arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it again. It came into him life ; it went out from him truth. It came to him short-lived actions; it went out from him immortal thoughts. It came to him business ; it went from him poetry. It was dead fact ; now it is quick thought.
Page 102 - ... we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all. A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
Page 490 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 255 - Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt : and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill ; and all the firstborn of beasts.
Page 101 - ... find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions, — his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement of his hearers; that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature...