All TheseHarvard University Press, 1927 - 314 pagine |
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Pagina 17
... attention . The preacher has taken his text from II Samuel , vii , 10 : " Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel , and will plant them , that they may dwell in a place of their own , and move no more . " ― They are well ...
... attention . The preacher has taken his text from II Samuel , vii , 10 : " Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel , and will plant them , that they may dwell in a place of their own , and move no more . " ― They are well ...
Pagina 31
... attention . " Tell our trans - Atlantic friends , " he said to a ship's company about to depart for England , " that all our strife is about magnifying the grace of God : some seek to exalt the grace of God towards us ; and some the ...
... attention . " Tell our trans - Atlantic friends , " he said to a ship's company about to depart for England , " that all our strife is about magnifying the grace of God : some seek to exalt the grace of God towards us ; and some the ...
Pagina 36
... attention to the needy and dis- tressed . On one occasion when news was brought of the suffering condition of the people in a little church in Bermuda , and a contribution from Bos- ton people was solicited , it was noted that no one ...
... attention to the needy and dis- tressed . On one occasion when news was brought of the suffering condition of the people in a little church in Bermuda , and a contribution from Bos- ton people was solicited , it was noted that no one ...
Pagina 37
... attention to his words , but his precepts into practice . put Longfellow , in his New England Tragedies , using words that an early writer had employed , describes him as " Chrysostom in the pulpit ; Augustine in disputation ; Timothy ...
... attention to his words , but his precepts into practice . put Longfellow , in his New England Tragedies , using words that an early writer had employed , describes him as " Chrysostom in the pulpit ; Augustine in disputation ; Timothy ...
Pagina 45
... attention once again toward the actual bearing of scientific thought upon religious truth . We find ourselves recalling the panic that occurred and the discussions that took place when Darwin's Origin of Species was first given to the ...
... attention once again toward the actual bearing of scientific thought upon religious truth . We find ourselves recalling the panic that occurred and the discussions that took place when Darwin's Origin of Species was first given to the ...
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Pagina 173 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
Pagina 8 - And these all, having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Pagina 285 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast plough'd.
Pagina 145 - At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.
Pagina 183 - As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
Pagina 232 - LOST LEADER. JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat...
Pagina 302 - With good methods, we may confidently hope to give young men of twenty to twenty-five an accurate general knowledge of all the main subjects of human interest, besides a minute and thorough knowledge of the one subject which each may select as his principal occupation in life.
Pagina 88 - And the great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, - that we manufacture everything there except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages.
Pagina 132 - Latimer was then introduced — eighty years old now — dressed in an old threadbare gown of Bristol frieze, a handkerchief on his head with a night-cap over it, and over that again another cap, with two broad flaps buttoned under the chin. A leather belt was round his waist, to which a Testament was attached; his spectacles, without a case, hung from his neck. So stood the greatest man perhaps then living in the world, a prisoner on his trial, waiting to be condemned to death by men professing...
Pagina 59 - I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept• the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work.