The Contemporary Review, Volumul 29A. Strahan, 1877 |
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Pagina 5
... regard to questions between one form of Christianity and another , supremely impartial . At all events we find that , when the long war waged in Crete ended in 1669 with its sur- render to the Porte , the Greek population of the island ...
... regard to questions between one form of Christianity and another , supremely impartial . At all events we find that , when the long war waged in Crete ended in 1669 with its sur- render to the Porte , the Greek population of the island ...
Pagina 11
... regard her as the natural enemy of their enemy . The ramifications of this society were wide , and its uses , at least its preliminary uses , would seem to have been considerable . † It was not , however , by the advised counsel of the ...
... regard her as the natural enemy of their enemy . The ramifications of this society were wide , and its uses , at least its preliminary uses , would seem to have been considerable . † It was not , however , by the advised counsel of the ...
Pagina 29
... regard to the subject before it ; and it requires an elevation of spirit almost more than human to rise altogether superior to the influence of self - interest . We must beware , therefore , of displaying too great severity towards a ...
... regard to the subject before it ; and it requires an elevation of spirit almost more than human to rise altogether superior to the influence of self - interest . We must beware , therefore , of displaying too great severity towards a ...
Pagina 32
... regard to the vice of intemperance . In the first place , there are about 203,000 apprehensions in each year for drunkenness ; and , calculating that for every one apprehended at least two will escape , we have the appalling total of ...
... regard to the vice of intemperance . In the first place , there are about 203,000 apprehensions in each year for drunkenness ; and , calculating that for every one apprehended at least two will escape , we have the appalling total of ...
Pagina 38
... regard to the first of these reformers , it is to be feared that , as yet at least , their proposals have done much more harm than good to the cause they have at heart : as for example in the Permissive Bill which is brought forward ...
... regard to the first of these reformers , it is to be feared that , as yet at least , their proposals have done much more harm than good to the cause they have at heart : as for example in the Permissive Bill which is brought forward ...
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Pagina 279 - A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Pagina 172 - Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing.
Pagina 393 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth ? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builded...
Pagina 393 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Pagina 521 - From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.
Pagina 125 - Thus, whatever system of organs be studied, the comparison of their modifications in the ape series leads to one and the same result — that the structural differences which separate Man from the Gorilla and the Chimpanzee are not so great as those which separate the Gorilla from the lower apes.
Pagina 407 - How great a virtue is temperance, how much of moment through the whole life of man ! Yet God commits the managing so great a trust without particular law or prescription, wholly to the demeanour of every grown man.
Pagina 95 - He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours. He cannot meet you on the square. He wants a point given him, like an indifferent whistplayer. He is so used to teaching, that he wants to be teaching you.
Pagina 336 - Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.
Pagina 126 - At the same time, no one is more strongly convinced than I am of the vastness of the gulf between civilized man and the brutes ; or is more certain that, whether from them or not, he is assuredly not of them.