The life of the rev. Joseph Blanco White, written by himself. Ed. by J.H. Thom, Volume 2 |
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Page iv
... Liverpool , 71 ; Letter to the Rev. George Armstrong , 72 ; Letter from the same , 73 ; the system of orthodoxy necessarily injurious to the cause of religious truth , 74-76 ; humility in the interpretation of the Scriptures , 76-78 ...
... Liverpool , 71 ; Letter to the Rev. George Armstrong , 72 ; Letter from the same , 73 ; the system of orthodoxy necessarily injurious to the cause of religious truth , 74-76 ; humility in the interpretation of the Scriptures , 76-78 ...
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... Liverpool ; no further means of usefulness by writing open to him ; his regret at having unintentionally helped the anti - Irish party ; Ireland , O'Connell ; the Romanist system incapable of real reform ; Pro- testantism in Ireland ...
... Liverpool ; no further means of usefulness by writing open to him ; his regret at having unintentionally helped the anti - Irish party ; Ireland , O'Connell ; the Romanist system incapable of real reform ; Pro- testantism in Ireland ...
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... am convinced ( too late perhaps ) that I am the last man to teach children . All my attempts that way have failed . Liverpool , February 18th , 1835 . D.D. - Because a Christian must necessarily depend upon a 10 EXTRACTS FROM JOURNALS.
... am convinced ( too late perhaps ) that I am the last man to teach children . All my attempts that way have failed . Liverpool , February 18th , 1835 . D.D. - Because a Christian must necessarily depend upon a 10 EXTRACTS FROM JOURNALS.
Page 71
... Liverpool , as soon as I receive an answer from my Spanish friend Zulueta , to whom I intend writing this day . The comparatively short dis- tance of that place from Dublin , and the facility of a sea passage , will enable me to have ...
... Liverpool , as soon as I receive an answer from my Spanish friend Zulueta , to whom I intend writing this day . The comparatively short dis- tance of that place from Dublin , and the facility of a sea passage , will enable me to have ...
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... Liverpool with safety to my feeble health , and he is of opinion that the sea voyage may be beneficial . Of course he is not aware of the mental distress which must remove all chances of benefit from the voyage . It is enough that it ...
... Liverpool with safety to my feeble health , and he is of opinion that the sea voyage may be beneficial . Of course he is not aware of the mental distress which must remove all chances of benefit from the voyage . It is enough that it ...
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Popular passages
Page 33 - Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed ; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Page 74 - Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said : nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Page 15 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 172 - By pain of heart — now checked — and now impelled The intellectual Power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way...
Page 15 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 74 - The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
Page 31 - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
Page 359 - SELECTIONS from the WRITINGS of FENELON. With a Memoir of his Life. By Mrs. FOLLEN.
Page 359 - GAMMER GRETHEL; OR, GERMAN FAIRY TALES AND POPULAR STORIES. From the Collection of MM. GRIMM, and other sources.
Page 277 - According to the constitution of our minds, the knowledge which we have of ourselves and of the external world leads us with absolute necessity to conclude that, if the world was created by the free act of a conscious Being, that Being must either be limited in power or in goodness. Out of this dilemma neither philosophy nor theology can extricate the thinking and unsuperstitious mind.