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... answer to the question , “ Who is thy neighbour , added to the divine precept , “ Thou shalt love thy neighbour as ... answered by Foster , Leland , and other eminent divines , on the ground that Christianity had a higher object in view ...
... answer to the question , “ Who is thy neighbour , added to the divine precept , “ Thou shalt love thy neighbour as ... answered by Foster , Leland , and other eminent divines , on the ground that Christianity had a higher object in view ...
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... answer the ends of our creation , those ends which not only morality enjoins , but which religion sanctions . If with the utmost stretch of reason , man cannot ( as some seemed inclined to suppose ) soar up to the God , and quit the ...
... answer the ends of our creation , those ends which not only morality enjoins , but which religion sanctions . If with the utmost stretch of reason , man cannot ( as some seemed inclined to suppose ) soar up to the God , and quit the ...
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... answer them ; but every one wanted to try what he could make of them , as we try to find out a riddle . " By his so potent art , " the art of laying down problematical pre- mises , and drawing from them still more doubtful , but not ...
... answer them ; but every one wanted to try what he could make of them , as we try to find out a riddle . " By his so potent art , " the art of laying down problematical pre- mises , and drawing from them still more doubtful , but not ...
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... answered the angry philosopher , and sat down again . It was delightful to see him sometimes turn from these waspish or ... answer the expectations that had been conceived of him , or probably that he had con- ceived of himself . It is ...
... answered the angry philosopher , and sat down again . It was delightful to see him sometimes turn from these waspish or ... answer the expectations that had been conceived of him , or probably that he had con- ceived of himself . It is ...
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... answered this question satisfactorily , and loosened the Gordian knot of gram- marians , " familiar as his garter , " when he said , " It is the common pronoun , adjective , or participle , that , with the noun , thing or proposition ...
... answered this question satisfactorily , and loosened the Gordian knot of gram- marians , " familiar as his garter , " when he said , " It is the common pronoun , adjective , or participle , that , with the noun , thing or proposition ...
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Page 307 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 226 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Page 114 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 247 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 226 - But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.
Page 46 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.