The Quarterly review, Volume 98Murray, 1856 |
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... faith and hope , strangely tinged , too , by his essential humour , shone through those clouds ! " Thou art a great sinner , " said he . I replied , " Canst thou not tell me something new , Satan ? " " The devil often casts this into my ...
... faith and hope , strangely tinged , too , by his essential humour , shone through those clouds ! " Thou art a great sinner , " said he . I replied , " Canst thou not tell me something new , Satan ? " " The devil often casts this into my ...
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... faith and works ! ' ' Twas an unhappy division that has been made between faith and works . Though in my intellect I may divide them , just as in the candle I know there is both light and heat , but yet put out the candle and they are ...
... faith and works ! ' ' Twas an unhappy division that has been made between faith and works . Though in my intellect I may divide them , just as in the candle I know there is both light and heat , but yet put out the candle and they are ...
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... Faith , my dear , " replied Scott , with humorous gravity , " if he's not dead , they have done him great injustice , for they ' ve buried him . " The joke passed harmless and unnoticed by Mrs. Scott , but hit the poor Dominie just as ...
... Faith , my dear , " replied Scott , with humorous gravity , " if he's not dead , they have done him great injustice , for they ' ve buried him . " The joke passed harmless and unnoticed by Mrs. Scott , but hit the poor Dominie just as ...
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... German institutions - the well - known * Illustrations of Faith , quoted by Miss Carpenter in her work on Reformatory Schools , p . 333 . Rauhe Rauhe Haus in the neighbourhood of Hamburgh . Dr. Wichern 38 Reformatory Schools .
... German institutions - the well - known * Illustrations of Faith , quoted by Miss Carpenter in her work on Reformatory Schools , p . 333 . Rauhe Rauhe Haus in the neighbourhood of Hamburgh . Dr. Wichern 38 Reformatory Schools .
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... faith in their work , and shown in energy and resolution , is the sine quâ non . The vacillating and the timid , the dawdler and the chatterer , have no place in the reformatory enterprise at all . Let the man have something in him to ...
... faith in their work , and shown in energy and resolution , is the sine quâ non . The vacillating and the timid , the dawdler and the chatterer , have no place in the reformatory enterprise at all . Let the man have something in him to ...
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Page 168 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is •what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 142 - there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and there is the difference between the characters of Fielding and those of Richardson. Characters of manners are very entertaining; but they are to be understood by a more superficial observer than characters of nature, where a man must dive into the recesses of the human heart.
Page 115 - Wilson; and throughout he shows himself well read in stage-coaches, country 'squires, inns, and inns of court. His reflections upon high people and low people, and misses and masters, are very good.
Page 167 - The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point.
Page 181 - We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind.
Page 373 - But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
Page 423 - Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
Page 20 - That was excellently observed, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
Page 128 - They did not understand that freedom, and ran up, where they found him banqueting with a blind man," a whore, and three Irishmen, on some cold mutton and a bone of ham, both in one dish, and the dirtiest cloth.
Page 105 - I was born, no original has appeared excepting Congreve, and Fielding, who would, I believe, have approached nearer to his excellences if not forced by necessity to publish without correction, and throw many productions into the world he would have thrown into the fire if meat could have been got without money, or money without scribbling.