The British Controversialist and Impartial Inquirer, Volume 5Houlston and Stonemen, 1854 - Great Britain |
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... learned to signify the state or abode of the recently- departed spirit , prior to its consignment to its final destination ; although it is imagined , regardless of the high character of the scriptures as the word of God , that this ...
... learned to signify the state or abode of the recently- departed spirit , prior to its consignment to its final destination ; although it is imagined , regardless of the high character of the scriptures as the word of God , that this ...
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... learned Tal- mudists of his day was established throughout Poland and in the whole of Germany . Henri Conscience , the Flemish historical no- velist , has just received a sixth honorary decora- tion from royal hands ; the King of Sweden ...
... learned Tal- mudists of his day was established throughout Poland and in the whole of Germany . Henri Conscience , the Flemish historical no- velist , has just received a sixth honorary decora- tion from royal hands ; the King of Sweden ...
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... learned men acknow- lead us to take him for one of England's far- ledge that all they can know is , after all , famed literati . Yet , upon honour we affirm but very little . When we commence to learn it , it is with hard study only we ...
... learned men acknow- lead us to take him for one of England's far- ledge that all they can know is , after all , famed literati . Yet , upon honour we affirm but very little . When we commence to learn it , it is with hard study only we ...
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... learned in youth and now spark to cast among the sons of toil and revere , David , the Hebrew psalmist ; Homer , sorrow . Of him in the modern horoscope it the Greek bard ; and Alfred , the Saxon war- is written : - " The stars , keen ...
... learned in youth and now spark to cast among the sons of toil and revere , David , the Hebrew psalmist ; Homer , sorrow . Of him in the modern horoscope it the Greek bard ; and Alfred , the Saxon war- is written : - " The stars , keen ...
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... learned heads , we may remark that no sooner were their advantages even partially seen , than they spread with electric rapidity throughout the length and breadth of our land , until , at the moment we write , there is scarcely a town ...
... learned heads , we may remark that no sooner were their advantages even partially seen , than they spread with electric rapidity throughout the length and breadth of our land , until , at the moment we write , there is scarcely a town ...
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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.