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Page 331 - And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
Page 162 - Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting. And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen ; and poured out the changers...
Page 174 - We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we may be filled, like stuffed birds in a museum, with chaff and ra'gs and paltry blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man.
Page 286 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Page 74 - ... abstain from introducing the element of religion at all into their part of the scheme, and this not because they held the matter to be insignificant — the contrary might be strongly expressed in the preamble of their act ; but on the ground that, in the present divided state of the Christian world, they would take no cognizance of, just because they would attempt no control over, the religion of applicants for aid — leaving this matter entire to the parties who had to do with the erection...
Page 277 - Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine. A Man's a Man for a
Page 379 - We boast some rich ones whom the Gospel sways, And one who wears a coronet and prays ; Like gleanings of an olive tree they show, Here and there one upon the topmost bough.
Page 211 - ... the nature of every substance of which I inserted the name, to limit every idea by a definition strictly logical, and exhibit every production of art or nature in an accurate description, that my book might be in place of all other dictionaries, whether appellative or technical. But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer.
Page 11 - ... might at once determine them to fix upon and to espouse it. ' It is this which has encompassed the Government with difficulties, from which we can see no other method of extrication than the one which we have ventured to suggest. And as there seems no reason why, because of these unresolved differences, a public measure for the health of all, — for the recreation of all, — for the economic advancement of all, — should be held in abeyance, there seems as little reason why, because of these...
Page 12 - On the basis of these general views I have two remarks to offer regarding the government scheme of education. " 1. I should not require a certificate of satisfaction with the religious progress of the scholars from the managers of the schools, in order to their receiving the government aid. Such a certificate from Unitarians or Catholics implies the direct sanction or countenance by government to their respective creeds, and the responsibility, not of allowing, but more than this, of requiring, that...