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... opinions , so disguises and discolors them , that they can with difficulty be recognised . I must have thrown back the charge of misrepresentation , and shown how unfairly I was reproached with ascribing to my adversaries opinions ...
... opinions , so disguises and discolors them , that they can with difficulty be recognised . I must have thrown back the charge of misrepresentation , and shown how unfairly I was reproached with ascribing to my adversaries opinions ...
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... Opinions , which I thought true and purifying , were not only assail- ed as errors , but branded as crimes . Then began , what seems to me one of the gross immoralities of our times , the practice of aspersing the characters of ...
... Opinions , which I thought true and purifying , were not only assail- ed as errors , but branded as crimes . Then began , what seems to me one of the gross immoralities of our times , the practice of aspersing the characters of ...
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... opinions , especially to such as we have expressed and defended , than to those of any other person ; and I have accordingly desired to write without any reference to my previous publications , or without any anxiety to accommodate my ...
... opinions , especially to such as we have expressed and defended , than to those of any other person ; and I have accordingly desired to write without any reference to my previous publications , or without any anxiety to accommodate my ...
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... opinion ; that he who would not be frus- trate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things , ought himself to be a true poem ; that is , a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing of ...
... opinion ; that he who would not be frus- trate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things , ought himself to be a true poem ; that is , a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing of ...
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... opinions obliges him to state his reasons for adopting them ; and these we val- ue highly for the vigor and independence of intellect with which they are impressed . The work is plain and unambitious in style . Its characteristics are a ...
... opinions obliges him to state his reasons for adopting them ; and these we val- ue highly for the vigor and independence of intellect with which they are impressed . The work is plain and unambitious in style . Its characteristics are a ...
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Page 239 - ... to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles ; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom ; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus : whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Page 401 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 27 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 27 - ... faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Page 13 - And in sweet madness robbed it of itself, But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.
Page 50 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery : and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Page 27 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with ^cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes ; from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 229 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 11 - ... not true that the poet paints a life which does not exist. He only extracts and concentrates, as it were, life's ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And in this he does well; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence and physical gratifications, but admits, in measures which may be indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights worthy of...
Page 258 - God to be the light of the world, and "able to save to the uttermost all who come to God by him." We are therefore seldom called to preach Christ in the senses which have just been considered, and our preaching must of course differ in a measure from that of the Apostles.