Library Magazine of American and Foreign ThoughtJ. B. Alden, 1888 - Choice literature |
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... follow , and find out with certainty this ruling purpose , and then to interpret the subordinate elements by its light and guidance . This The narrative distributes the operation of creation over six days , and divides it into eight ...
... follow , and find out with certainty this ruling purpose , and then to interpret the subordinate elements by its light and guidance . This The narrative distributes the operation of creation over six days , and divides it into eight ...
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... follow the order of actual occurrence , unless that best suited its purpose . Zoology does not group the ani- mals in the order of their emergence into existence , but classifies and discusses them in a very different sequence , adopted ...
... follow the order of actual occurrence , unless that best suited its purpose . Zoology does not group the ani- mals in the order of their emergence into existence , but classifies and discusses them in a very different sequence , adopted ...
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... follows that the favored lover is the successful one . On a par with these dwellers in the desert are certain tribes ... follow- ed by her wooer , while the women of the encampment throw every possible impediment in his way , " tripping ...
... follows that the favored lover is the successful one . On a par with these dwellers in the desert are certain tribes ... follow- ed by her wooer , while the women of the encampment throw every possible impediment in his way , " tripping ...
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... follow from the crudities which he promulgated before so influential a gathering . More attention has been and will be called to the subject , and out of the heated discussion which is now going on , we may hope that the truth will ...
... follow from the crudities which he promulgated before so influential a gathering . More attention has been and will be called to the subject , and out of the heated discussion which is now going on , we may hope that the truth will ...
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... follow His example , that filled his heart ; and he would have been more or less than human if it had not been so . When the body of Rolf the Ganger , who had accepted Neustria and Christianity together , for himself and for his roving ...
... follow His example , that filled his heart ; and he would have been more or less than human if it had not been so . When the body of Rolf the Ganger , who had accepted Neustria and Christianity together , for himself and for his roving ...
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Page 394 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 205 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 55 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 455 - With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I never be...
Page 392 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Page 527 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 461 - A little further, to make thee a room : Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give. That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses, I mean with great, but...
Page 524 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 122 - I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts on a wholesale scale, more especially with respect to domesticated productions, by printed inquiries, by conversation with skilful breeders and gardeners, and by extensive reading.
Page 50 - Say there is one God alone — God the eternal ; He begetteth not and He is not begotten, And there is none like unto him.