The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1Houlston and Stonemen, 1864 |
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... less , accustomed to peruse in newspaper reports the chief efforts of forensic debaters ; and many constitute themselves critics of the sweeping rhetoric , or the trenchant dialectics they display . It may , therefore , be conducive to ...
... less , accustomed to peruse in newspaper reports the chief efforts of forensic debaters ; and many constitute themselves critics of the sweeping rhetoric , or the trenchant dialectics they display . It may , therefore , be conducive to ...
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... Less interesting contests as to property or rights , though they might be carried on with as profound an insight into the principles of jurisprudence , and elicit as masterly a statement of the applicability of the statutes or ...
... Less interesting contests as to property or rights , though they might be carried on with as profound an insight into the principles of jurisprudence , and elicit as masterly a statement of the applicability of the statutes or ...
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... less a sanction than that of royalty , and hence witches are introduced into " Macbeth , " one of the most moral pieces existing . It is this sound moral which counteracts the effects of any otherwise objectionable passages . Even in ...
... less a sanction than that of royalty , and hence witches are introduced into " Macbeth , " one of the most moral pieces existing . It is this sound moral which counteracts the effects of any otherwise objectionable passages . Even in ...
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... less Christian nation . They do most notoriously minister both to infidelity and vice . " Plato says , " Plays raise the passions , and pervert the use of them ; and of consequence are dangerous to morality . " Aristotle remarks , " The ...
... less Christian nation . They do most notoriously minister both to infidelity and vice . " Plato says , " Plays raise the passions , and pervert the use of them ; and of consequence are dangerous to morality . " Aristotle remarks , " The ...
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... less know- ledge of its inner amenities . They see the outer husk and rind , but cannot taste the sweetness of the kernel . They misunderstand , and therefore they misreport . They define civilization according to their wishes , not in ...
... less know- ledge of its inner amenities . They see the outer husk and rind , but cannot taste the sweetness of the kernel . They misunderstand , and therefore they misreport . They define civilization according to their wishes , not in ...
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Page 213 - How sweet his music! on my life There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
Page 54 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 341 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come ; that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Page 346 - Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length, and depth and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Page 16 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 221 - Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill...
Page 215 - It is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before. The red-breast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare, And grass in the green field.
Page 219 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
Page 14 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 342 - Israel, if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole, be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.