The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany, Volume 291855 |
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6 learned author . It is utterly unworthy of an enlarged and philosophical line of thought , to limit our conceptions of other life to the forms around us . It was utterly unnecessary , there- fore , that The Essay ' should drag us ...
6 learned author . It is utterly unworthy of an enlarged and philosophical line of thought , to limit our conceptions of other life to the forms around us . It was utterly unnecessary , there- fore , that The Essay ' should drag us ...
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... learned and weighty an author . Every succeeding reve- lation of the telescope has afforded fresh conviction to astrono- mers , that the Nebulæ are vast assemblages of distinct luminaries , and not enormous conglomerates of rarefied ...
... learned and weighty an author . Every succeeding reve- lation of the telescope has afforded fresh conviction to astrono- mers , that the Nebulæ are vast assemblages of distinct luminaries , and not enormous conglomerates of rarefied ...
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... learned Orientalist , the critical and philosophic investigator , has alighted upon manuscripts hitherto undeciphered in the West , or detected 1 Lest any purist should be shocked in limine at our employment of the popular corruption ...
... learned Orientalist , the critical and philosophic investigator , has alighted upon manuscripts hitherto undeciphered in the West , or detected 1 Lest any purist should be shocked in limine at our employment of the popular corruption ...
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... learned English trans- lator of the Koran , Sale , is pronounced , even by Gibbon , no harsh judge , to be half a Mahometan ; and a French biographer , the Comte de Boulainvilliers , seems to have composed his un- trustworthy Vie de ...
... learned English trans- lator of the Koran , Sale , is pronounced , even by Gibbon , no harsh judge , to be half a Mahometan ; and a French biographer , the Comte de Boulainvilliers , seems to have composed his un- trustworthy Vie de ...
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... learned Christian monk , ) that an Arab prophet had arisen , who was preaching the religion of Abraham at Mecca . This was Mahomet . Zayd hastened back to hear him , but was robbed and murdered on the road . He may fairly be regarded as ...
... learned Christian monk , ) that an Arab prophet had arisen , who was preaching the religion of Abraham at Mecca . This was Mahomet . Zayd hastened back to hear him , but was robbed and murdered on the road . He may fairly be regarded as ...
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Page 391 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words ; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, (which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know...
Page 388 - Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 3.
Page 123 - They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; To gods whom they knew not, To new gods that came newly up, Whom your fathers feared not.
Page 157 - I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad; darkness and lights; tempest and human faces; and at last, with the sense that all was lost, female forms, and the features that were worth all the world to me, and but a moment allowed — and clasped hands, and heart-breaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells!
Page 157 - ... issue. I, as is usual in dreams (where of necessity we make ourselves central to every movement), had the power, and yet had not the power to decide it. I had the power, if I could raise myself to will it, and yet, again, had not the power ; for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon me, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt. ' Deeper than ever plummet sounded,
Page 122 - Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning tho...
Page 121 - Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Page 383 - Whence you ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop...
Page 157 - The dream commenced with a music which now I often heard in dreams — a music of preparation and of awakening suspense, a music like the opening of the Coronation Anthem, and which, like that, gave the feeling of a vast march, of infinite cavalcades filing off, and the tread of innumerable armies.
Page 43 - But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God : and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.