The Prospective Review: A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature, Volume 1John Chapman, 1845 - Literature |
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... look over the announce- ments of the press , we are half tempted to believe that the age of prophecy - of free , spontaneous utterance - is gone , and that a new Alexandrine period of critics and commentators is taking its place . The ...
... look over the announce- ments of the press , we are half tempted to believe that the age of prophecy - of free , spontaneous utterance - is gone , and that a new Alexandrine period of critics and commentators is taking its place . The ...
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... look for the vital principles of historical knowledge , -as it is with such minds , brave , earnest and athletic , that it is healthful and invigorating to sympathize . We do not expect among the productions of so troubled a period , to ...
... look for the vital principles of historical knowledge , -as it is with such minds , brave , earnest and athletic , that it is healthful and invigorating to sympathize . We do not expect among the productions of so troubled a period , to ...
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... look at the number of volumes which the societies , already described , are yearly pouring into the world , and remember , that their contents , often so dry and recondite , are offered to the laity , we are ready to smile with incre ...
... look at the number of volumes which the societies , already described , are yearly pouring into the world , and remember , that their contents , often so dry and recondite , are offered to the laity , we are ready to smile with incre ...
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... look for afterwards , but first he begs leave to pre- possess your mind with a clear and well - connected story of his own , and then you are to see whether this is not the most likely explanation of the whole matter , except upon the ...
... look for afterwards , but first he begs leave to pre- possess your mind with a clear and well - connected story of his own , and then you are to see whether this is not the most likely explanation of the whole matter , except upon the ...
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... look up . The resurrection of their Leader brings them back to the same state of expectation as before his death . It opens no new view upon their souls , but it scatters the despondencies of the cross and of the tomb , and re ...
... look up . The resurrection of their Leader brings them back to the same state of expectation as before his death . It opens no new view upon their souls , but it scatters the despondencies of the cross and of the tomb , and re ...
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Page 140 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms ; And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than- violence ; for this was all thy care, To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse...
Page 258 - For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
Page 614 - How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil ; for God was with him.
Page 509 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Page 395 - If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin : but now they have no cloak for their sin.
Page 133 - Creed, and that which is commonly called the Apostles' Creed, ought thoroughly to be received and believed: for they may be proved by most certain warrants of holy Scripture.
Page 32 - And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.
Page 257 - For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
Page 507 - For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Page 509 - Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul ; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.