The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 30G. Lane and P.P. Sanford, 1848 - Methodist Church |
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... respects , they generally want grace , lightness , sympathy , picturesqueness , glow . From his deficiency of sensibility and imagination , and from his habit of bringing everything to the tribunal of the understanding , he rarely ...
... respects , they generally want grace , lightness , sympathy , picturesqueness , glow . From his deficiency of sensibility and imagination , and from his habit of bringing everything to the tribunal of the understanding , he rarely ...
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... respect to style . The comparison holds as far as regards luminous arrangement of matter and clearness of narration ; but , with the exception , perhaps , of passages in his " America , " not in the graces of expression . The manner of ...
... respect to style . The comparison holds as far as regards luminous arrangement of matter and clearness of narration ; but , with the exception , perhaps , of passages in his " America , " not in the graces of expression . The manner of ...
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... respect to the production of events . It will not do to refer events wholly to individual character or to the spirit of the age . In the one case the man is isolated from humanity , in the other a tendency is con- founded with an act ...
... respect to the production of events . It will not do to refer events wholly to individual character or to the spirit of the age . In the one case the man is isolated from humanity , in the other a tendency is con- founded with an act ...
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... respects a remarkable man , whether we con- sider the strength or the versatility of his genius . He attempted an enterprise as daring as ever entered the head of a maniac , and brought it to a successful result by the resources of his ...
... respects a remarkable man , whether we con- sider the strength or the versatility of his genius . He attempted an enterprise as daring as ever entered the head of a maniac , and brought it to a successful result by the resources of his ...
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... respect , was not worse than a hundred others whose " vigor " is the admiration of the world , and the inspiration of the devil . No general ever excelled Cortés in the command he exercised over the minds and hearts of his followers ...
... respect , was not worse than a hundred others whose " vigor " is the admiration of the world , and the inspiration of the devil . No general ever excelled Cortés in the command he exercised over the minds and hearts of his followers ...
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Page 304 - And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her ; and he did eat.
Page 563 - In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation : in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise...
Page 304 - Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Page 311 - Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam — as the Pelagians do vainly talk — but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam ; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the Flesh lusteth always contrary to the Spirit; and therefore, in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Page 304 - And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden : but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Page 304 - And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Page 70 - I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret.
Page 313 - WE are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings...
Page 66 - That it was our duty, if ever the Lord brought us back again in peace, to call Charles Stuart, that man of blood, to an account for that blood he had shed, and mischief he had done to his utmost, against the Lord's Cause and People in these poor Nations.
Page 386 - But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades.