The Prospective Review: A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature, Volume 1John Chapman, 1845 - Literature |
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... religious progress . Nevertheless , surveying these movements in all their bearings , considering what they must ... religion ) , an accu- rate acquaintance with the critical facts of his past history -those facts which have embodied ...
... religious progress . Nevertheless , surveying these movements in all their bearings , considering what they must ... religion ) , an accu- rate acquaintance with the critical facts of his past history -those facts which have embodied ...
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... religion . History , in its relation more particularly to religion , was much neglected in England during the greater part of the last and the commencement of the present century . Gibbon was the only writer qualified by original ...
... religion . History , in its relation more particularly to religion , was much neglected in England during the greater part of the last and the commencement of the present century . Gibbon was the only writer qualified by original ...
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... religion from its outward forms . They will per- ceive , that , however history may sustain the claims of au- thority up to a certain point , and exhibit groups of facts so surprisingly combined and so marked in their influence , that ...
... religion from its outward forms . They will per- ceive , that , however history may sustain the claims of au- thority up to a certain point , and exhibit groups of facts so surprisingly combined and so marked in their influence , that ...
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... religious mind of England , as it is presented to us in the history of the two last centuries , we find it ultimately ... religion , as of government , there must necessarily be many things of great relative importance , as links to bind ...
... religious mind of England , as it is presented to us in the history of the two last centuries , we find it ultimately ... religion , as of government , there must necessarily be many things of great relative importance , as links to bind ...
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... religion is to endure as a social influence - and that the forms already in existence are the best , if they are in unison with human sympathies , and express , with the breadth and vagueness which every popular utterance must from its ...
... religion is to endure as a social influence - and that the forms already in existence are the best , if they are in unison with human sympathies , and express , with the breadth and vagueness which every popular utterance must from its ...
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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.