FanaticismHoldsworth and Ball, 1833 - 515 pages |
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Page 101
... to deny universally the piety and sincerity of even the most extravagant class of the anchorets . Better speak on such subjects like Alban Butler than like Gibbon . fear and humiliation give way to hope , to pride OF THE SCOURGE . 101.
... to deny universally the piety and sincerity of even the most extravagant class of the anchorets . Better speak on such subjects like Alban Butler than like Gibbon . fear and humiliation give way to hope , to pride OF THE SCOURGE . 101.
Page 104
... anchorets who , round the year , roamed about , refusing even the comforts of a cavern , and were wont to repose at night on the fresh fallen snow . " After deducting from these narratives all the miracles , the bare fact is miracle ...
... anchorets who , round the year , roamed about , refusing even the comforts of a cavern , and were wont to repose at night on the fresh fallen snow . " After deducting from these narratives all the miracles , the bare fact is miracle ...
Page 119
... anchorets of the Egyptian deserts , of the rocks of Sinai , and of the solitudes of Syria , and leaving unnamed the savage heroes of the Romish calendar , 15 let us 15 No literary enterprise can well be named , or perhaps thought of ...
... anchorets of the Egyptian deserts , of the rocks of Sinai , and of the solitudes of Syria , and leaving unnamed the savage heroes of the Romish calendar , 15 let us 15 No literary enterprise can well be named , or perhaps thought of ...
Page 202
... anchorets , just summoned from their dens of morose medi- tation . Who would indulge a hope of receiving justice from such a band ? Aye , would not a man shudder were he to descry only one such being among the twelve , and must he not ...
... anchorets , just summoned from their dens of morose medi- tation . Who would indulge a hope of receiving justice from such a band ? Aye , would not a man shudder were he to descry only one such being among the twelve , and must he not ...
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... anchorets at once , if indeed language is found to be a fallacious medium of intellectual exchange . And what is true of oral communication , is true also ( with a very small deduction ) of written communication . Moreover what may be ...
... anchorets at once , if indeed language is found to be a fallacious medium of intellectual exchange . And what is true of oral communication , is true also ( with a very small deduction ) of written communication . Moreover what may be ...
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Page 423 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves .to the Lord, To serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, To be his servants, Every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, And taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, And make them joyful in my house of prayer: Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; For mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
Page 410 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...
Page 509 - The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
Page 474 - For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah...
Page 390 - Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations, the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Page 422 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Page 420 - GOD be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us. That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
Page 404 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto Me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hateth: they are a trouble unto Me; I am weary to bear them.
Page 408 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your GOD. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Page 407 - Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for" the time to come for ever and ever...