The British Controversialist and Literary MagazineHoulston and Stonemen, 1863 - Great Britain |
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... give each idea so much grace as to attract , force as to impress , and vigour as to fix it in the memory , and make it blend indissolubly thereafter with the hearer's mind . Then thought issued quick , living , newly - begotten , with ...
... give each idea so much grace as to attract , force as to impress , and vigour as to fix it in the memory , and make it blend indissolubly thereafter with the hearer's mind . Then thought issued quick , living , newly - begotten , with ...
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... gives up self- reckoning altogether . The habit of the orator gains power by constancy of usage , and the readiness ... give their suffrage , not to the best adviser , but to the most efficient speaker : sophistry arises , and sophists ...
... gives up self- reckoning altogether . The habit of the orator gains power by constancy of usage , and the readiness ... give their suffrage , not to the best adviser , but to the most efficient speaker : sophistry arises , and sophists ...
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... give effective visibility to the inner ideal from which he works . The musician may weave the moving air into a gossamery mantle of enchantment , and touch the soul by the thin medium which enwraps the earth in any mode which gratifies ...
... give effective visibility to the inner ideal from which he works . The musician may weave the moving air into a gossamery mantle of enchantment , and touch the soul by the thin medium which enwraps the earth in any mode which gratifies ...
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... give up this point is to give up an essential part of the story ( p . 19 ) . Now , after all this " certainty " and " positiveness , " he gives up one point , and proves the impossibility of the other . " Which came into Egypt , " means ...
... give up this point is to give up an essential part of the story ( p . 19 ) . Now , after all this " certainty " and " positiveness , " he gives up one point , and proves the impossibility of the other . " Which came into Egypt , " means ...
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... give to all her subjects the rights of Englishmen , however widely spread over the earth's surface her colonies and dependencies may be ; her flag covers no slave , shelters no despot : it gives the fulness of freedom to all , both in ...
... give to all her subjects the rights of Englishmen , however widely spread over the earth's surface her colonies and dependencies may be ; her flag covers no slave , shelters no despot : it gives the fulness of freedom to all , both in ...
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Page 180 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Page 459 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 180 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God ; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Page 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...
Page 55 - For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length, and thund'ring sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around — And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.
Page 372 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 311 - ... 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.
Page 181 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Page 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.
Page 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.