Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings, Volume 20List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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... hear and follow his instructions at their own peril , provided they be in accordance with the Scriptures . By what right , then , can a father look upon the minister as his substitute , in the teaching of his child , when he himself is ...
... hear and follow his instructions at their own peril , provided they be in accordance with the Scriptures . By what right , then , can a father look upon the minister as his substitute , in the teaching of his child , when he himself is ...
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... hears the appeal and feels the inspiration ; he searches until he discovers the path plainly marked , through which he can ascend to a position among magistrates and statesmen . The young lawyer , unknown beyond the limits of his native ...
... hears the appeal and feels the inspiration ; he searches until he discovers the path plainly marked , through which he can ascend to a position among magistrates and statesmen . The young lawyer , unknown beyond the limits of his native ...
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... hear and to believe new things , we may not infer that the human mind prefers error to truth . False opinions gain currency for the most part , because they are intimately associated with truth . Modern system - makers well understand ...
... hear and to believe new things , we may not infer that the human mind prefers error to truth . False opinions gain currency for the most part , because they are intimately associated with truth . Modern system - makers well understand ...
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... hears the angry surges dashing around him , is fully conscious of his danger , and yet remains firm as the wave - beaten rock . Our peculiar condition as a people demands a host of such men , yet we fear the number among us is small ...
... hears the angry surges dashing around him , is fully conscious of his danger , and yet remains firm as the wave - beaten rock . Our peculiar condition as a people demands a host of such men , yet we fear the number among us is small ...
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... hear me . The political tie was relaxed , the moral tie was not strengthened , and oceans of blood flowed , and hecatombs of human beings were sacrificed on the altar of political frenzy and atheistical fanaticism . Does any one desire ...
... hear me . The political tie was relaxed , the moral tie was not strengthened , and oceans of blood flowed , and hecatombs of human beings were sacrificed on the altar of political frenzy and atheistical fanaticism . Does any one desire ...
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Page 172 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 64 - It implied' an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
Page 63 - The moment of finishing his plans in deliberation, and commencing them in action, was the same. I wonder what must have been the amount of that bribe, in emolument or pleasure, that would have detained him a week inactive after their final adjustment.
Page 63 - It was the calmness of an intensity, kept uniform by the nature of the human mind forbidding it to be more, and by the character of the individual forbidding it to be less.
Page 10 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Page 5 - And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 85 - And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise ; he calleth thee.
Page 152 - When winds are blowing strong. The traveller slaked His thirst from rill or gushing fount, and thanked The Naiad. Sunbeams, upon distant hills • Gliding apace, with shadows in their train, Might, with small help from fancy, be transformed Into fleet Oreads sporting visibly.
Page 84 - And when he heard that it •> was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
Page 49 - Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is much more necessary in the republic which they set forth in glowing colors, than in the monarchy which they attack; it is more needed in democratic republics than in any others. How is it possible that society should escape destruction, if the moral tie be not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? and what can be done with a people who are their own masters, if they be not submissive to the Deity?