The Christian Examiner, Volume 82Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1867 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... civilization , " says a French writer , “ have all had their legends of heroes and martyrs . " Has not Israel had its heroes and its martyrs too ? Among the Jews of the Middle Age and the Renaissance and the later centuries , have there ...
... civilization , " says a French writer , “ have all had their legends of heroes and martyrs . " Has not Israel had its heroes and its martyrs too ? Among the Jews of the Middle Age and the Renaissance and the later centuries , have there ...
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... civilization , but from an unaffected love of the changing beauties and the mystic repose of nature . Again : the idyls of the Palatinate , by Maler Müller , and Voss's touching pictures , had done some- thing to take the German mind ...
... civilization , but from an unaffected love of the changing beauties and the mystic repose of nature . Again : the idyls of the Palatinate , by Maler Müller , and Voss's touching pictures , had done some- thing to take the German mind ...
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... civilization we fancy so permeating is found after all in many countries , when carefully scrutinized , to be but a sort of superficial polish : it goes down really but a little way into the masses of the people , and the bottom stratum ...
... civilization we fancy so permeating is found after all in many countries , when carefully scrutinized , to be but a sort of superficial polish : it goes down really but a little way into the masses of the people , and the bottom stratum ...
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... civilization , and that , although many of the charms of rural life are thus destroyed , mankind on the whole gains in the process ; and in this instance , again , he shows how far removed 30 [ Jan. Recent German Literature .
... civilization , and that , although many of the charms of rural life are thus destroyed , mankind on the whole gains in the process ; and in this instance , again , he shows how far removed 30 [ Jan. Recent German Literature .
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... civilization that we can no more go back to the simplicity of a peasant hut in the Black For- est than we can live in a kraal on the banks of the Orange River ; for , though we have taken down fairy tales from old women's lips as they ...
... civilization that we can no more go back to the simplicity of a peasant hut in the Black For- est than we can live in a kraal on the banks of the Orange River ; for , though we have taken down fairy tales from old women's lips as they ...
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Page 4 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 150 - Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Page 143 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 88 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Page 143 - See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil, in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, and His statutes, and His judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply : and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Page 99 - I am the way, the truth and the life. I am the resurrection and the life.
Page 314 - It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man.
Page 125 - And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel ; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein. 20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate ; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Page 88 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee ? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Page 130 - The Story of the Great March." Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $4 00. BAKER'S ISMAILIA. Ismailia: a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave-trade, organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt. By Sir SAMUEL WHITE BAKER, PASHA, FRS, FRGS With Maps, Portraits, and Illustrations.