The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volumes 5-6Houlston and Stonemen, 1858 |
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... passing events give prominence , and invest with paramount importance . Thus , that fearful rebellion , which has swept over our eastern dependencies , with results more dire than ever followed the fiercest storms of heaven , has ...
... passing events give prominence , and invest with paramount importance . Thus , that fearful rebellion , which has swept over our eastern dependencies , with results more dire than ever followed the fiercest storms of heaven , has ...
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... passed , bringing desolation with it to many a " home and hearth " -this has called attention to our banking system , and led to a discussion of the principles which should regulate its issues . But while our friends have been ...
... passed , bringing desolation with it to many a " home and hearth " -this has called attention to our banking system , and led to a discussion of the principles which should regulate its issues . But while our friends have been ...
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... passing ages . " Heaven gives our years of fading strength Indemnifying fleetness ; - The paths of youth a seeming length , Proportioned to their sweetness . " Having looked behind and around , let us look within us ! " Know thyself ...
... passing ages . " Heaven gives our years of fading strength Indemnifying fleetness ; - The paths of youth a seeming length , Proportioned to their sweetness . " Having looked behind and around , let us look within us ! " Know thyself ...
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... passed , beginning with the great houses , must spread through the smaller ones ; and by the stop- page of large factories , tens of thousands will be starving , and without employment , so that the distress will reach the lowest of the ...
... passed , beginning with the great houses , must spread through the smaller ones ; and by the stop- page of large factories , tens of thousands will be starving , and without employment , so that the distress will reach the lowest of the ...
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... passed on the 19th of July , 1844 , and commonly called the Bank Charter Act . The first clause enacts that " the issue of promissory notes of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England , payable on demand , shall be separated and ...
... passed on the 19th of July , 1844 , and commonly called the Bank Charter Act . The first clause enacts that " the issue of promissory notes of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England , payable on demand , shall be separated and ...
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Page 156 - For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Page 62 - And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 208 - That many shall come from the east and from the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven...
Page 108 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...
Page 157 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever...
Page 118 - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the LORD : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the LORD.
Page 115 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
Page 258 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him ; and to every seed his own body.
Page 157 - He that hath a trade, hath an estate; and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honour," as Poor Richard says; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes — If we are industrious, we shall never* starve; for, " at the working man's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Page 60 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.