The Western Messenger: Devoted to Religion, Life, and Literature, Volume 1T.H. Shreve & Company, 1836 |
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... reason for this change is simply , that the first name is preoccupied by a paper published in St. Louis , which advocates principles so different from those which we shall uphold , that we are unwilling to have our book confounded with ...
... reason for this change is simply , that the first name is preoccupied by a paper published in St. Louis , which advocates principles so different from those which we shall uphold , that we are unwilling to have our book confounded with ...
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... reason ; but this is a matter of no con- sequence . Of the literary merits of the volume we have little to say ; it is well written : for the most part is clear and forcible , and often is eloquent . There are some passages , however ...
... reason ; but this is a matter of no con- sequence . Of the literary merits of the volume we have little to say ; it is well written : for the most part is clear and forcible , and often is eloquent . There are some passages , however ...
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... reason , let it be remembered , why Austria wishes to overthrow our government , is that our freedom and prosperi- ty act as incentives to her enslaved people , which may induce them to rise in rebellion . Keeping this in view , would ...
... reason , let it be remembered , why Austria wishes to overthrow our government , is that our freedom and prosperi- ty act as incentives to her enslaved people , which may induce them to rise in rebellion . Keeping this in view , would ...
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... reason which he himself gives on page sixty - four , for the rush of emigrants to our land appears to us the true one , and a cause sufficient to the effect ; " Our rich unoccupied territory , " he says , " our national works , and ...
... reason which he himself gives on page sixty - four , for the rush of emigrants to our land appears to us the true one , and a cause sufficient to the effect ; " Our rich unoccupied territory , " he says , " our national works , and ...
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... reason for requiring a retraction of it , though even in that case no Catholic would now think such a claim of any validity , because no Catholic acknowl- edges any power in the church to bind him in any other than matters of faith and ...
... reason for requiring a retraction of it , though even in that case no Catholic would now think such a claim of any validity , because no Catholic acknowl- edges any power in the church to bind him in any other than matters of faith and ...
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Page 111 - These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come ; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee...
Page 40 - Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. 25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Page 2 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife?
Page 305 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 38 - But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
Page 152 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life...
Page 338 - In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Page 357 - But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Page 225 - But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. 39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
Page 178 - And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them : then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.