The North British review1847 |
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... light and sanctity , are dissatisfied unless they have had apostles for their founders . As to these islands , after the most elaborate researches , we must come to the conclusion of our worthy ecclesiastical historian Fuller , and say ...
... light and sanctity , are dissatisfied unless they have had apostles for their founders . As to these islands , after the most elaborate researches , we must come to the conclusion of our worthy ecclesiastical historian Fuller , and say ...
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... light of salvation in the early part of the 3d century . After the conversion of Constantine , there is reason to believe that most of the heathen temples were here- as elsewhere - converted into Christian churches . And though the ...
... light of salvation in the early part of the 3d century . After the conversion of Constantine , there is reason to believe that most of the heathen temples were here- as elsewhere - converted into Christian churches . And though the ...
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... of the bishops laboured hard afterwards to instruct and civilize their disciples , to the best of their knowledge and ability . Still the work was superficial ; the light was faint and evanescent , and Lingard's Anglo - Saxon Church .
... of the bishops laboured hard afterwards to instruct and civilize their disciples , to the best of their knowledge and ability . Still the work was superficial ; the light was faint and evanescent , and Lingard's Anglo - Saxon Church .
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superficial ; the light was faint and evanescent , and scarcely affected the heathen darkness which still covered the masses of the people , who were Christians in name only ; or , if there was a flush of prosperity at the beginning — a ...
superficial ; the light was faint and evanescent , and scarcely affected the heathen darkness which still covered the masses of the people , who were Christians in name only ; or , if there was a flush of prosperity at the beginning — a ...
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... light on the religion of the period . Fasting was the usual penance ; but the sick , the infirm , and the dying , might find such penance physically impossible . In that case it was commuted for money or prayers . 66 Thus , a new system ...
... light on the religion of the period . Fasting was the usual penance ; but the sick , the infirm , and the dying , might find such penance physically impossible . In that case it was commuted for money or prayers . 66 Thus , a new system ...
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Página 419 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Página 137 - Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier, while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest.
Página 415 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Página 412 - ... too bright, nor good, for human nature's daily food;" it is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity...
Página 43 - All my jewels in like sort take thou with thee, For they are fitting for thy wife, but not for me. ' I will spend my days in prayer, Love and all her laws...
Página 403 - ... thoughts by which the picture is separated at once from hundreds of equal merit, as far as mere painting goes, by which it ranks as a work of high art, and stamps its author, not as the neat imitator of the texture of a skin, or the fold of a drapery, but as the Man of Mind.
Página 412 - And instead of this, there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure.
Página 422 - If, • for every rebuke that we utter of men's vices, we put forth a oklim upon their hearts ; if for every assertion of God's demands from them, we could substitute a display of his kindness to them ; if side by side, with every warning of death, we could exhibit proofs and promises of immortality ; if, in fine, instead of assuming the being of an awful Deity, which men, though they cannot and dare not deny, are always unwilling, sometimes unable, to conceive, we were to show them a near, visible,...
Página 406 - Why we receive pleasure from some forms and colours, and not from others, is no more to be asked or answered than why we like sugar and dislike wormwood.
Página 415 - Meholathite : and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD : and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.