Littell's Living Age, Volume 24Living Age Company Incorporated, 1850 |
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... believe that it will also one day cease to be . 66 " You " that I never do cease The same may be said to think — not even in the soundest sleep . " do , for a long time , every night of your life , " ex- claims another , equally ...
... believe that it will also one day cease to be . 66 " You " that I never do cease The same may be said to think — not even in the soundest sleep . " do , for a long time , every night of your life , " ex- claims another , equally ...
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... believe that there is nothing between infidelity and popery , and of urging them to make a selection between the two ... believe any mediaval miracle , nay , any ghost story , without exami lieve than to reason . " They believe as ...
... believe that there is nothing between infidelity and popery , and of urging them to make a selection between the two ... believe any mediaval miracle , nay , any ghost story , without exami lieve than to reason . " They believe as ...
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... believe . Before school of training of man's moral nature ? How Columbus had seen America , he believed in its ex- else could the discipline of his faculties , the existence ; but when he had seen it his faith became ercise of patience ...
... believe . Before school of training of man's moral nature ? How Columbus had seen America , he believed in its ex- else could the discipline of his faculties , the existence ; but when he had seen it his faith became ercise of patience ...
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... believe shall such evidence could justify them in disbelieving be , first , such as our faculties are competent to their own eyes , and that such an insoluble objec- appreciate , and against which , therefore , the mere tion was ...
... believe shall such evidence could justify them in disbelieving be , first , such as our faculties are competent to their own eyes , and that such an insoluble objec- appreciate , and against which , therefore , the mere tion was ...
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... believe in believing it to be false . preciate , and which he will not allow to be con- The à priori objection to Miracles we shall briefly trolled by the difficulties his conscious feebleness touch afterwards . it , and , which is more ...
... believe in believing it to be false . preciate , and which he will not allow to be con- The à priori objection to Miracles we shall briefly trolled by the difficulties his conscious feebleness touch afterwards . it , and , which is more ...
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Page 254 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 14 - If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin.
Page 89 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Page 305 - Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHER. To save that client by all expedient means— to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself — is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties...
Page 141 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 258 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
Page 146 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her, 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Page 27 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Page 339 - I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him.
Page 138 - Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.