The Quarterly review, Volume 53Murray, 1835 |
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... prophecy . Having in vain endeavoured to obtain for his perusal any concise trea- tise on the prophecies considered exclusively as a matter of EVIDENCE [ sic ] , and having failed in soliciting others to undertake the work , who were ...
... prophecy . Having in vain endeavoured to obtain for his perusal any concise trea- tise on the prophecies considered exclusively as a matter of EVIDENCE [ sic ] , and having failed in soliciting others to undertake the work , who were ...
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... prophecy which Newton included . But the con- ciseness of the treatise ' was not the main question ; Dr. Keith , even by his mode of printing the passage , pointed our attention not to the length so much as to the nature of the work ...
... prophecy which Newton included . But the con- ciseness of the treatise ' was not the main question ; Dr. Keith , even by his mode of printing the passage , pointed our attention not to the length so much as to the nature of the work ...
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... prophecy appeared to have extraordinary weight . Dr. Keith , seventy years after , happens to meet a person similarly disposed , and having sought in vain for any treatise that meets such an object , ( though we shall show , by and by ...
... prophecy appeared to have extraordinary weight . Dr. Keith , seventy years after , happens to meet a person similarly disposed , and having sought in vain for any treatise that meets such an object , ( though we shall show , by and by ...
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... prophecy ; Dr. Keith seems to us to have no order at all . But , referendo singula singulis , the following com ... Prophecy of the Things noted in the Scripture of Truth . Conclusion . Introduction . NEWTON . Jesus is the Messiah - Diss ...
... prophecy ; Dr. Keith seems to us to have no order at all . But , referendo singula singulis , the following com ... Prophecy of the Things noted in the Scripture of Truth . Conclusion . Introduction . NEWTON . Jesus is the Messiah - Diss ...
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... prophecies - the denunciation of the destruction of Jerusalem- treated in Newton's seventh dissertation and in Keith's third chapter : - NEWTON . KEITH . Chap . iii . pp . 51 , & c . The first text quoted is from Deut . xxviii .; and ...
... prophecies - the denunciation of the destruction of Jerusalem- treated in Newton's seventh dissertation and in Keith's third chapter : - NEWTON . KEITH . Chap . iii . pp . 51 , & c . The first text quoted is from Deut . xxviii .; and ...
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Page 92 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman; 6 this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Page 173 - ... from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it : and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
Page 170 - Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
Page 463 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 148 - And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night...
Page 476 - Now them that are such we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Page 157 - What we have said of miracles, may be applied, without any variation, to prophecies; and indeed all prophecies are real miracles, and as such only can be admitted as proofs of any revelation.
Page 84 - What would'st thou have a good great man obtain? Place? titles? salary? a gilded chain? Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Page 92 - Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.