The North British Review, Volumes 26-27Leonard Scott & Company, 1857 |
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... evidence you cannot answer ; " nothing is more falla- of a masculine energy , a power of holding cious than " Tables ; " nothing is more to be and of dealing with those intricately related suspected than " facts admitted on all sides ...
... evidence you cannot answer ; " nothing is more falla- of a masculine energy , a power of holding cious than " Tables ; " nothing is more to be and of dealing with those intricately related suspected than " facts admitted on all sides ...
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... EVIDENCES , least something to do with the appointment which is not merely the earliest in date , but of their ministers . The English Dissenters which first brought the writer into view be- of these times , or many of them , profess to ...
... EVIDENCES , least something to do with the appointment which is not merely the earliest in date , but of their ministers . The English Dissenters which first brought the writer into view be- of these times , or many of them , profess to ...
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... Evidences . better prepared to listen to a dispassionate discussion of this subject than it has been at any time heretofore it is not so , because none have come forward to take it up , and to deal with it , in whom , as to their compe ...
... Evidences . better prepared to listen to a dispassionate discussion of this subject than it has been at any time heretofore it is not so , because none have come forward to take it up , and to deal with it , in whom , as to their compe ...
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- Chalmers ' Essay on the Christian Evidences | Scotland , and who , alas ! had , some of a book proper to be now put into the hands them , comfortably lodged themselves with- of an intelligent young man for the purpose in its ...
- Chalmers ' Essay on the Christian Evidences | Scotland , and who , alas ! had , some of a book proper to be now put into the hands them , comfortably lodged themselves with- of an intelligent young man for the purpose in its ...
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... evidence , or to reduce it to a cordial , and a genuine philosophy ; —it must cloudy condition , have signally ... Evidences , though it will always be popularly available , and though it may without any scruple be put into the hands of ...
... evidence , or to reduce it to a cordial , and a genuine philosophy ; —it must cloudy condition , have signally ... Evidences , though it will always be popularly available , and though it may without any scruple be put into the hands of ...
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Page 71 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear : clouds they are without water, carried about of winds ; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots ; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame ; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Page 11 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Page 16 - Then I can smile at Satan's rage, And face a frowning world. 3 Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall ; May I but safely reach my home, My God, my heaven, my all : 4 There shall I bathe my weary soul, In seas of heavenly rest, And not a wave of trouble roll Across my peaceful breast.
Page 175 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 20 - COME, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 ' ' Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, "To be exalted thus!
Page 135 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour.
Page 175 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
Page 10 - Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business...
Page 104 - We praise Thee, we bless Thee, we worship Thee, we glorify Thee, we give thanks to Thee for Thy great glory, O LORD GOD, heavenly KING, GOD the FATHER Almighty.
Page 10 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age may correct the defects of both...