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... honours on most unseemly objects and withholding them from the politically slain ; " ( p . 141 ) and this much we take the liberty to say , that were our venerable profess- ors to take his open and palpable hint , and bestow their ...
... honours on most unseemly objects and withholding them from the politically slain ; " ( p . 141 ) and this much we take the liberty to say , that were our venerable profess- ors to take his open and palpable hint , and bestow their ...
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... honour should fear that by taking " the plain forth - right " the prize is likely to elude his grasp . There is abundant scope within the pale of the Church for a generous and noble ambition , but no young aspirant should expect to be ...
... honour should fear that by taking " the plain forth - right " the prize is likely to elude his grasp . There is abundant scope within the pale of the Church for a generous and noble ambition , but no young aspirant should expect to be ...
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manner to take his place among her older and more honoured sons . Let him seek to do so in the ordinary way of fair honest labour , and , if he really possess solid parts , the Church will neither be slow to discern , nor slow to honour ...
manner to take his place among her older and more honoured sons . Let him seek to do so in the ordinary way of fair honest labour , and , if he really possess solid parts , the Church will neither be slow to discern , nor slow to honour ...
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... honour dear can venture to write them down . But thus it is that the very instruments which his enemies choose for their ag- grandisement , the Lord often converts into scourges of his wrath ; and the very hatred of his enemies he can ...
... honour dear can venture to write them down . But thus it is that the very instruments which his enemies choose for their ag- grandisement , the Lord often converts into scourges of his wrath ; and the very hatred of his enemies he can ...
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... honour to his name and country . He was a remarkably affectionate child , very sensitive , keenly alive to praise , easily encouraged , and as easily disconcerted by a word or look of unkindness ; the latter , however , was of rare ...
... honour to his name and country . He was a remarkably affectionate child , very sensitive , keenly alive to praise , easily encouraged , and as easily disconcerted by a word or look of unkindness ; the latter , however , was of rare ...
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Page 290 - It Is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord : and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High; To show forth thy lovingkindness in the morning: and thy faithfulness every night.
Page 431 - I profess likewise, that in the Mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead. And that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, there is truly, really, and substantially, the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 408 - ... reading, (but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books.
Page 74 - Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
Page 171 - And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people ; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Page 74 - Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God ; he riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments, and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
Page 318 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 364 - For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Page 65 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 79 - Consider the lilies how they grow; they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.