Littell's Living Age, Volume 24Living Age Company Incorporated, 1850 |
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... Faith as twin - born beings- the one in form and features the image of manly beauty - the other , of feminine grace and gentle- ness ; but to each of whom , alas ! was allotted a sad " REASON and Faith , " says one of our old divines ...
... Faith as twin - born beings- the one in form and features the image of manly beauty - the other , of feminine grace and gentle- ness ; but to each of whom , alas ! was allotted a sad " REASON and Faith , " says one of our old divines ...
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... faith ; though an act of distinguished from " reasoning " or logical deduo- faith is involved in the process ; and few would not call confidence in testimony where probabilities were nearly tion , may be said almost as truly to depend on ...
... faith ; though an act of distinguished from " reasoning " or logical deduo- faith is involved in the process ; and few would not call confidence in testimony where probabilities were nearly tion , may be said almost as truly to depend on ...
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... faith becomes absolutely necessary - not of reason to the exclusion of faith , for otherwise there would be no adequate test of man's docility and submission ; nor of a faith that would assert itself , not only independent of reason ...
... faith becomes absolutely necessary - not of reason to the exclusion of faith , for otherwise there would be no adequate test of man's docility and submission ; nor of a faith that would assert itself , not only independent of reason ...
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... faith his object ; he , too , endeavors to teach them that without which they cannot be happy - obedience , but a reasonable obedience . He gives them , in his general pro- cedure and conduct , sufficient proofs of his supe- rior ...
... faith his object ; he , too , endeavors to teach them that without which they cannot be happy - obedience , but a reasonable obedience . He gives them , in his general pro- cedure and conduct , sufficient proofs of his supe- rior ...
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... faith will avenge the wrongs done them by their alien- ation and disjunction . Those results , indeed , we predicted in 1843 ; before a single leader of the Oxford school had gone over to Rome , and before any tendencies to the opposite ...
... faith will avenge the wrongs done them by their alien- ation and disjunction . Those results , indeed , we predicted in 1843 ; before a single leader of the Oxford school had gone over to Rome , and before any tendencies to the opposite ...
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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.
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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.