The British Controversialist and Impartial Inquirer, Volume 5Houlston and Stonemen, 1854 - Great Britain |
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... Thought by thought is piled , till some great truth Is loosened , and the nations echo round ; " and the intellectual man yearns to trace the growth of events , from these their embryotic germs to the flower and fruitage of realization ...
... Thought by thought is piled , till some great truth Is loosened , and the nations echo round ; " and the intellectual man yearns to trace the growth of events , from these their embryotic germs to the flower and fruitage of realization ...
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... thought the marvels of mythology . * For a long time the stream of historic fact must have mingled with that of mythic lore , like " A clear stream flowing with a muddy one , Till in its onward current it absorbs , With swifter movement ...
... thought the marvels of mythology . * For a long time the stream of historic fact must have mingled with that of mythic lore , like " A clear stream flowing with a muddy one , Till in its onward current it absorbs , With swifter movement ...
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... thought the contest is solitary— the opposing forces are unknown - the field is untrodden and unsurveyed . Ah , there is something here of the truly heroic , -the nobly manful ! Amid the mistiness and gloom , — the uncertain footing and ...
... thought the contest is solitary— the opposing forces are unknown - the field is untrodden and unsurveyed . Ah , there is something here of the truly heroic , -the nobly manful ! Amid the mistiness and gloom , — the uncertain footing and ...
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... thought is advantageous because it recalls to memory the benefactions which have been left us , and the names of the bequeathers , and thus an age , too entirely self - glorifying , being reminded of its indebtedness to " the days of ...
... thought is advantageous because it recalls to memory the benefactions which have been left us , and the names of the bequeathers , and thus an age , too entirely self - glorifying , being reminded of its indebtedness to " the days of ...
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... thought ! Can the lightning tarry in the full - charged thunder - cloud when the conducting - rod pierces it ? As soon may the reason remain incurious and inactive when the impressions of phenomena impinge upon it . Facts , individual ...
... thought ! Can the lightning tarry in the full - charged thunder - cloud when the conducting - rod pierces it ? As soon may the reason remain incurious and inactive when the impressions of phenomena impinge upon it . Facts , individual ...
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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.