The Christian Examiner, Volume 82Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1867 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... charm of his immortal verse . Enlightened Rome no longer believed in the gods . Even the unlearned , according to the testimony of Juvenal , had outgrown the traditional faith in a future retributory state . Cicero himself says that no ...
... charm of his immortal verse . Enlightened Rome no longer believed in the gods . Even the unlearned , according to the testimony of Juvenal , had outgrown the traditional faith in a future retributory state . Cicero himself says that no ...
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... of civilization , and that , although many of the charms of rural life are thus destroyed , mankind on the whole gains in the process ; and in For this instance , again , he shows how far 30 [ Jan. Recent German Literature .
... of civilization , and that , although many of the charms of rural life are thus destroyed , mankind on the whole gains in the process ; and in For this instance , again , he shows how far 30 [ Jan. Recent German Literature .
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... charm in the romance which he published this last year , entitled Auf der Höhe . We count it as next to the Dorfgeschichten , his leading work ; and , moreover , as one of the few good novels that have , as yet , been written in Germany ...
... charm in the romance which he published this last year , entitled Auf der Höhe . We count it as next to the Dorfgeschichten , his leading work ; and , moreover , as one of the few good novels that have , as yet , been written in Germany ...
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... charm of cultivated society , and never expecting the secure comforts of a home . And yet , in this service , with all its petty rivalries and jealousies , its few op- portunities of a finer culture , its sullen and haughty pride , we ...
... charm of cultivated society , and never expecting the secure comforts of a home . And yet , in this service , with all its petty rivalries and jealousies , its few op- portunities of a finer culture , its sullen and haughty pride , we ...
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... charm of airy grace , and by a deep fund of poetic feeling , relieved by the almost constant presence of quiet humor . We heartily recommend Mr. Howells's " Venetian Life " to the two large classes of readers , - those who have ...
... charm of airy grace , and by a deep fund of poetic feeling , relieved by the almost constant presence of quiet humor . We heartily recommend Mr. Howells's " Venetian Life " to the two large classes of readers , - those who have ...
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Page 6 - 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 152 - 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 145 - 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 392 - CRAIK (GEORGE LILLIE)— ENGLISH OF SHAKESPEARE. Illustrated in a Philological Commentary on his Julius Caesar.
Page 90 - 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 316 - It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man.
Page 127 - 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. 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 145 - 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 101 - I am the way, the truth and the life. I am the resurrection and the life.
Page 90 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee ? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?