The Statesman's Manual: Or, The Bible the Best Guide to Political Skill and Foresight: a Lay Sermon, Addressed to the Higher Classes of Society, with an Appendix, Containing Comments and Essays Connected with Study of the Inspired Writings |
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... circumstances ; and therefore for commu- nities no less than for individuals . The con- tents of every work must correspond to the character and designs of the work - master ; and the inference in the present case is too obvious A ...
... circumstances ; and therefore for commu- nities no less than for individuals . The con- tents of every work must correspond to the character and designs of the work - master ; and the inference in the present case is too obvious A ...
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... character ; if there exist means for deriving resignation from general discon- tent , means of building up with the very materials of political gloom that stedfast frame of hope which affords the only certain shelter from the throng of ...
... character ; if there exist means for deriving resignation from general discon- tent , means of building up with the very materials of political gloom that stedfast frame of hope which affords the only certain shelter from the throng of ...
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... character of the doctrines which have collected the most numerous sects , and acted upon the moral being of the converts with a force that might well seem supernatural ! The great PRINCIPLES of our religion , the sublime IDEAS spoken ...
... character of the doctrines which have collected the most numerous sects , and acted upon the moral being of the converts with a force that might well seem supernatural ! The great PRINCIPLES of our religion , the sublime IDEAS spoken ...
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... characters and situations . The first shall be that of Heraclitus , the sad and recluse philosopher . Πολυμαθίη νοον ον διδασκεί Σίβυλλα δὲ μαινομένῳ ςοματι ἀγέλασα και άκαλλωπιςα και άμυριςα φθεγγομένη χιλίων ετών εξικνειται τῇ φωνῇ ...
... characters and situations . The first shall be that of Heraclitus , the sad and recluse philosopher . Πολυμαθίη νοον ον διδασκεί Σίβυλλα δὲ μαινομένῳ ςοματι ἀγέλασα και άκαλλωπιςα και άμυριςα φθεγγομένη χιλίων ετών εξικνειται τῇ φωνῇ ...
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... character of Europe has been raised to its present compa- rative height ; we should be struck , me thinks , by the marked and prominent differ- ence of this Book from the works which it is now the fashion to quote as guides and autho ...
... character of Europe has been raised to its present compa- rative height ; we should be struck , me thinks , by the marked and prominent differ- ence of this Book from the works which it is now the fashion to quote as guides and autho ...
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Page 3 - For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments...
Page 79 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page 31 - Truths of all others the most awful and mysterious, yet being at the same time of universal interest, are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the life and efficiency of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.
Page 67 - But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Page 37 - On the other hand a symbol ... is characterized by a translucence of the special in the individual, or of the general in the special, or of the universal in the general; above all by the translucence of the eternal through and in the temporal.
Page 43 - But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, The loss of children, and widowhood: They shall come upon thee in their perfection For the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
Page 13 - For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly ; so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page xii - ... the breath of the power of God, and a pure influence from the glory of the Almighty ; which remaining in itself regenerateth all other powers, and in all ages entering into holy souls maketh them friends of God and prophets; (Wisdom of Solomon, c.
Page 55 - And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence (first place).
Page 31 - ... the mind that feels the riddle of the world, and may help to unravel it. To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood...