The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1837 |
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... Religion . We should have believed this to be by Act of Parliament , but that of late , when it was proposed to rescind it ... religious point of view they would not be losers , if they were admitted into the Universities without great ...
... Religion . We should have believed this to be by Act of Parliament , but that of late , when it was proposed to rescind it ... religious point of view they would not be losers , if they were admitted into the Universities without great ...
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... religious ; while some are remarkable neither for good breeding nor for pub- lic decorum . The number of the last is doubtless dying away . The past generation could have told a scandalous tale ; but as public opinion has gained ...
... religious ; while some are remarkable neither for good breeding nor for pub- lic decorum . The number of the last is doubtless dying away . The past generation could have told a scandalous tale ; but as public opinion has gained ...
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... Religious Instruction . A great outcry was made at Oxford against the London University , because it did not undertake to give religious instruction to its pupils . The defence made was as follows : That religion may be viewed as a ...
... Religious Instruction . A great outcry was made at Oxford against the London University , because it did not undertake to give religious instruction to its pupils . The defence made was as follows : That religion may be viewed as a ...
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... religious instruction to the undergraduate . The value of the whole manifestly depends on the quality of the University Sermons and of the Divinity Lectures ; concern- ing which , it might seem rash to make any universal assertions ...
... religious instruction to the undergraduate . The value of the whole manifestly depends on the quality of the University Sermons and of the Divinity Lectures ; concern- ing which , it might seem rash to make any universal assertions ...
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... religious welfare of the younger students . But when we know the profligate expense , the rioting and revelling , the low , abandoned and impure company , the frequent profanity and noisy drunkenness , of the Oxford students , it seems ...
... religious welfare of the younger students . But when we know the profligate expense , the rioting and revelling , the low , abandoned and impure company , the frequent profanity and noisy drunkenness , of the Oxford students , it seems ...
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Page 244 - Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in. the prophets : Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish : for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Page 596 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead : so that they are without excuse. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened : professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
Page 204 - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
Page 537 - And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off : it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched...
Page 374 - Luther affirmed it, or disproving that, because Calvin hath disavouched it. I condemn not all things in the Council of Trent, nor approve all in the Synod of Dort. In brief, where the Scripture is silent, the Church is my text ; where that speaks, 'tis but my comment : where there is a joint silence of both, I borrow not the rules of my religion from Rome or Geneva, but the dictates of my own reason.
Page 534 - Ye are the salt of the earth" — " Ye are the light of the world.
Page 604 - Look, under that broad beech-tree I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing, and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose hill...
Page 390 - The wonder of these sights impels me into night-walks about her crowded streets, and I often shed tears in the motley Strand from fulness of joy at so much life. All these emotions must be strange to you ; so are your rural emotions to me. But consider, what must I have been doing all my life, not to have lent great portions of my heart with usury to such scenes...
Page 193 - It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.
Page 590 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting. About her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing barked With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, And kennel there, yet there still barked and howled Within unseen.