The Works of Sydney Smith, Volume 1Longman, 1839 |
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... Christian can descry nothing all around him but a dreary expanse of trite sentiments and languid words . The great object of modern sermons is to hazard nothing their characteristic is , decent debility ; which alike guards their ...
... Christian can descry nothing all around him but a dreary expanse of trite sentiments and languid words . The great object of modern sermons is to hazard nothing their characteristic is , decent debility ; which alike guards their ...
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... Christians . It is a very easy thing to talk about the shallow impostures , and the silly ignorant sophisms of Voltaire , Rousseau , Condorcet , D'Alembert , and Volney , and to say that Hume is not worth answering . This af fectation ...
... Christians . It is a very easy thing to talk about the shallow impostures , and the silly ignorant sophisms of Voltaire , Rousseau , Condorcet , D'Alembert , and Volney , and to say that Hume is not worth answering . This af fectation ...
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... Christian practice , which must interest mankind through all ages , than the petty questions which are important to the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer for the time being , he may live beyond his own days , and become a star of the third ...
... Christian practice , which must interest mankind through all ages , than the petty questions which are important to the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer for the time being , he may live beyond his own days , and become a star of the third ...
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... christian , and the most profitable conduct the farmer can pursue , is , to sell his commodities for the highest price he can possibly obtain . This advice , we think , is not in any great danger of being rejected : we wish we were ...
... christian , and the most profitable conduct the farmer can pursue , is , to sell his commodities for the highest price he can possibly obtain . This advice , we think , is not in any great danger of being rejected : we wish we were ...
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... Christian Education founded by our pious Forefathers for the Initiation of the Young Members of the Established Church in the Principles of the Reformed Religion . By Mrs Trimmer . 1805 . THIS is a book written by a lady who has gained ...
... Christian Education founded by our pious Forefathers for the Initiation of the Young Members of the Established Church in the Principles of the Reformed Religion . By Mrs Trimmer . 1805 . THIS is a book written by a lady who has gained ...
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Page 282 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there ; save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the Gospel of the grace of God.
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Page 16 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 280 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.