The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 2Houlston and Stonemen, 1863 |
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... means of promoting the progress and furthering the interests of truth . Controversy whets thought to keenness , and accustoms it to rigorous argument . It at once excites and improves the capacities of man . As an aid in this practical ...
... means of promoting the progress and furthering the interests of truth . Controversy whets thought to keenness , and accustoms it to rigorous argument . It at once excites and improves the capacities of man . As an aid in this practical ...
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... means of impressing even upon Parliament the thought , feeling , and passion , which animate him in regard to public affairs . Though , therefore , the franchise should never be lowered - in the progress of time it cannot but be widened ...
... means of impressing even upon Parliament the thought , feeling , and passion , which animate him in regard to public affairs . Though , therefore , the franchise should never be lowered - in the progress of time it cannot but be widened ...
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... means , to retract or modify . We are herein only expanding into explicit utterance ideas which implicitly contained the teachings now laid before the reader . Our thoughts are , therefore , not only consistent but persistent , and , as ...
... means , to retract or modify . We are herein only expanding into explicit utterance ideas which implicitly contained the teachings now laid before the reader . Our thoughts are , therefore , not only consistent but persistent , and , as ...
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... means slavishly attached to the opinions we may express or entertain ; but that we shall be willing to change them as soon as we perceive that they cannot be substantiated by just and logical arguments . There is but little to remark ...
... means slavishly attached to the opinions we may express or entertain ; but that we shall be willing to change them as soon as we perceive that they cannot be substantiated by just and logical arguments . There is but little to remark ...
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... means of working almost miracles for us , both individually and for the world at large ; while the effects of the pulpit , to the best of our knowledge , are scanty , and such as will bear no comparison with those of the press - to find ...
... means of working almost miracles for us , both individually and for the world at large ; while the effects of the pulpit , to the best of our knowledge , are scanty , and such as will bear no comparison with those of the press - to find ...
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Página 311 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 62 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Página 55 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Página 61 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly.
Página 382 - MY faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary, Saviour divine! Now hear me while I pray; Take all my guilt away; Oh, let me from this day Be wholly Thine!
Página 180 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him : neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him ? But we have the mind of Christ.
Página 26 - There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! — His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace.
Página 181 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Página 369 - STOP, Christian Passer-by — Stop, child of God, And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he — O lift one thought in prayer for STC ; That he who many a year with toil of breath Found death in life, may here find life in death ! Mercy for praise — to be forgiven for fame He ask'd, and hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same ! AN ODE TO THE RAIN.
Página 19 - God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.