The British Controversialist and Impartial Inquirer, Volume 5Houlston and Stonemen, 1854 - Great Britain |
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... action ; and as an opinion is wise or foolish , vicious or moral , the cause of action is noxious or salutary . Opinions are of infinite consequence . They make the man- ners - in fact , they make the laws : they make the legislature ...
... action ; and as an opinion is wise or foolish , vicious or moral , the cause of action is noxious or salutary . Opinions are of infinite consequence . They make the man- ners - in fact , they make the laws : they make the legislature ...
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... action , " and he is desirous of acquiring a knowledge of these early elements , from which the various modifications of human life proceed , —those ideas which have altered the features of society , changed the circumstances of human ...
... action , " and he is desirous of acquiring a knowledge of these early elements , from which the various modifications of human life proceed , —those ideas which have altered the features of society , changed the circumstances of human ...
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... actions of Alexander , Charles XII . , Napoleon , and Wellington , most widely known , most earnestly studied , most thoroughly admired , and most sedulously conned ? A history of speculative thought - of the active energies put forth ...
... actions of Alexander , Charles XII . , Napoleon , and Wellington , most widely known , most earnestly studied , most thoroughly admired , and most sedulously conned ? A history of speculative thought - of the active energies put forth ...
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... action is thus con- tained the existence , improvement , and perfection of our being ; and knowledge is only precious as it may afford a stimulus to the exercise of our powers , and the condition of their more complete activity ...
... action is thus con- tained the existence , improvement , and perfection of our being ; and knowledge is only precious as it may afford a stimulus to the exercise of our powers , and the condition of their more complete activity ...
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... actions in life , and so leave him at the mercy of all those elements which bring temptation and ruin of soul ; not that we see that any danger could possibly result from the full and free admission of the facts of spiritual ...
... actions in life , and so leave him at the mercy of all those elements which bring temptation and ruin of soul ; not that we see that any danger could possibly result from the full and free admission of the facts of spiritual ...
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Page 24 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
Page 175 - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you ; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Page 361 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 422 - The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Page 219 - But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Page 369 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness ; he is proud, knowing nothing...
Page 151 - I AM old and blind! Men point at me as smitten by God's frown; Afflicted and deserted of my kind, Yet I am not cast down. I am weak, yet strong; I murmur not that I no longer see; Poor, old, and helpless, I the more belong, Father Supreme! to thee.
Page 283 - Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Page 166 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 356 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast : for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.