The British Controversialist and Impartial Inquirer, Volume 5Houlston and Stonemen, 1854 - Great Britain |
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... possessing both a spiritual internal and external together , forming , while in this mortal life , the common internal of the na- tural organism , the PSYCHE or ANIMUS Will be the connecting medium between the pure human spirit and the ...
... possessing both a spiritual internal and external together , forming , while in this mortal life , the common internal of the na- tural organism , the PSYCHE or ANIMUS Will be the connecting medium between the pure human spirit and the ...
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... possessed of from 2,000 to 9,000 First . The boards of customs and excise have been abolished , and our metropolitan establishments reduced to the position of sub - offices . This is peculiarly felt in the Scottish commercial capital ...
... possessed of from 2,000 to 9,000 First . The boards of customs and excise have been abolished , and our metropolitan establishments reduced to the position of sub - offices . This is peculiarly felt in the Scottish commercial capital ...
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... possessed only of talents that might have made good cobblers , had fortune turned them to trade ? The regions of taste can be travelled only by a few , and even those often find indifferent accommoda- tion by the way . Let such as have ...
... possessed only of talents that might have made good cobblers , had fortune turned them to trade ? The regions of taste can be travelled only by a few , and even those often find indifferent accommoda- tion by the way . Let such as have ...
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... possessed of a large share of self esteem . He was fully aware of his great abilities as a general ; he knew the terror attaching to his name causing stout hearts to quail , and princes to feel insecure upon their thrones ; the recol ...
... possessed of a large share of self esteem . He was fully aware of his great abilities as a general ; he knew the terror attaching to his name causing stout hearts to quail , and princes to feel insecure upon their thrones ; the recol ...
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... possessed of the same powers of volition , of thought , and of the same immortality of soul ? If they are characterized by these common attributes of humanity , then surely they are worthy of and have a right to take a place amongst the ...
... possessed of the same powers of volition , of thought , and of the same immortality of soul ? If they are characterized by these common attributes of humanity , then surely they are worthy of and have a right to take a place amongst the ...
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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.