The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1Houlston and Stonemen, 1864 |
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... writing , reading , or acting of tragedy and comedy is not , in itself , necessarily opposed to the teachings of the gospel . Tragedy , as depicting the various conflicting passions in man's breast , and the terrible consequences in ...
... writing , reading , or acting of tragedy and comedy is not , in itself , necessarily opposed to the teachings of the gospel . Tragedy , as depicting the various conflicting passions in man's breast , and the terrible consequences in ...
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... writings of Euripides ) is a precept ; but that , at the same time , his real power is shown in the progress of the ... writing . Far be it from us to weaken the conscientious scruples of anyone ; but we think it is in reality not so ...
... writings of Euripides ) is a precept ; but that , at the same time , his real power is shown in the progress of the ... writing . Far be it from us to weaken the conscientious scruples of anyone ; but we think it is in reality not so ...
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... writing these lines , and will , perhaps , occur to others . It is this , -that those who maintain that Christians - for " members of Christian churches " means , I presume , the same thing -cannot consistently take part in the ...
... writing these lines , and will , perhaps , occur to others . It is this , -that those who maintain that Christians - for " members of Christian churches " means , I presume , the same thing -cannot consistently take part in the ...
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... writings contain many great and noble ideas , which deserve to be read by all . To this we reply , that a dish of the most solid and excellent food is entirely vitiated by its containing a few grains of arsenic ; and it is with the ...
... writings contain many great and noble ideas , which deserve to be read by all . To this we reply , that a dish of the most solid and excellent food is entirely vitiated by its containing a few grains of arsenic ; and it is with the ...
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... writing while the combat is raging , are perhaps hardly fitted for a full and impartial examination of the subject ; and there is no doubt that succeeding generations will be enabled to dispense justice to both parties more rigorously ...
... writing while the combat is raging , are perhaps hardly fitted for a full and impartial examination of the subject ; and there is no doubt that succeeding generations will be enabled to dispense justice to both parties more rigorously ...
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Page 215 - 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 56 - 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 343 - 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 348 - 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 223 - 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 217 - 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 221 - 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 344 - 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.