Liberal Religious Thought at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Addresses and Papers at the International Council of Unitarian and Other Liberal Religious Thinkers and Workers, Held in London, May, 1901William Copeland Bowie |
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... Montauban in 1824 as open to competition . Though the examiners candidly acknowledged the manifest superiority of Vincent's disciple , they yielded to the unfriendly representa- tions of the candidate's colleagues , and by way of ...
... Montauban in 1824 as open to competition . Though the examiners candidly acknowledged the manifest superiority of Vincent's disciple , they yielded to the unfriendly representa- tions of the candidate's colleagues , and by way of ...
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... Montauban , without re- ference to the Churches and without being subjected to a competitive trial , owed their positions to the favour which they found in the eyes of the ' Mothers of the Church . ' Academic degrees were no longer held ...
... Montauban , without re- ference to the Churches and without being subjected to a competitive trial , owed their positions to the favour which they found in the eyes of the ' Mothers of the Church . ' Academic degrees were no longer held ...
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... Montauban , or the Paris Faculty of Theology , asking for advice , begging to be admitted as students ; and some of them have become most capable and liberal preachers of the Gospel . ' And now let us come to the second question : Where ...
... Montauban , or the Paris Faculty of Theology , asking for advice , begging to be admitted as students ; and some of them have become most capable and liberal preachers of the Gospel . ' And now let us come to the second question : Where ...
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... in order to complete their theo- logical studies . Montauban has six lectureships of Divinity , besides four lectureships of Philology and Philosophy , and about seventy - five students , belong- Protestant Schools of Divinity in France ...
... in order to complete their theo- logical studies . Montauban has six lectureships of Divinity , besides four lectureships of Philology and Philosophy , and about seventy - five students , belong- Protestant Schools of Divinity in France ...
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... Montauban , on behalf of the University of Geneva ; but most of the other guests , accompanied by the Revs . W. Copeland Bowie , V. D. Davis , James Harwood , and W. G. Tarrant , travelled to Oxford on Monday morning in a special ...
... Montauban , on behalf of the University of Geneva ; but most of the other guests , accompanied by the Revs . W. Copeland Bowie , V. D. Davis , James Harwood , and W. G. Tarrant , travelled to Oxford on Monday morning in a special ...
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Page 279 - Beauty — a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.
Page 114 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 18 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 274 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity ; Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts : a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the...
Page 280 - Such grateful haunts foregoing, if I oft Must turn elsewhere — to travel near the tribes And fellowships of men, and see ill sights Of madding passions mutually inflamed; Must hear Humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish...
Page 279 - Atlantic Main — why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day. — I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation...
Page 278 - I trust is their destiny, to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier, to teach the young and the gracious of every age, to see, to think and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous...
Page 35 - Ah Love ! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's desire...
Page 278 - Possessions vanish, and opinions change, And passions hold a fluctuating seat : But, by the storms of circumstance unshaken, And subject neither to eclipse nor wane, Duty exists; — immutably survive, For our support, the measures and the forms, Which an abstract intelligence supplies; Whose kingdom is, where time and space are not.
Page 273 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle ; sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being; iu them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life.