The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848 - British literature |
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... evil then , I think evil now . I am heartily glad that all our disqualifying laws for religious opinions are abolished , and I see nothing in such measures but unmixed good and real increase of strength to our Establishment . The idea ...
... evil then , I think evil now . I am heartily glad that all our disqualifying laws for religious opinions are abolished , and I see nothing in such measures but unmixed good and real increase of strength to our Establishment . The idea ...
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... evil which accrues from the promotion of a clergyman to the pulpit , which he has no ability to fill as he ought , is the fatigue . of the audience , and the discredit of that species of public instruction ; an evil so general , that no ...
... evil which accrues from the promotion of a clergyman to the pulpit , which he has no ability to fill as he ought , is the fatigue . of the audience , and the discredit of that species of public instruction ; an evil so general , that no ...
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... more than any man I ever knew , was full of practical wisdom , — and never indulged in contemptuous feelings against his inferiors in understanding . seems to attribute every moral and physical evil under which 16 DR . RENNEL .
... more than any man I ever knew , was full of practical wisdom , — and never indulged in contemptuous feelings against his inferiors in understanding . seems to attribute every moral and physical evil under which 16 DR . RENNEL .
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... evil age - an adulterous age - an ignorant age - an apostate age- and a foppish age . the propriety of the last epithet , our readers may perhaps be more convinced , by calling to mind a class of fops not usually designated by that ...
... evil age - an adulterous age - an ignorant age - an apostate age- and a foppish age . the propriety of the last epithet , our readers may perhaps be more convinced , by calling to mind a class of fops not usually designated by that ...
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... , who have every thing to conjec- ture , and every thing to create ; that they must submit to the confusion of repeated change , or the greater evil of obstinate perseverance in error ; that they must live D 3 NECKAR'S LAST VIEWS . 37.
... , who have every thing to conjec- ture , and every thing to create ; that they must submit to the confusion of repeated change , or the greater evil of obstinate perseverance in error ; that they must live D 3 NECKAR'S LAST VIEWS . 37.
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Page 426 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there ; save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the Gospel of the grace of God.
Page 424 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.