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... false ministers has aroused the slumbering lion ; agitation is once more the order of the day . The great meeting recently held in the Manchester Free Trade Hall will be a heavy blow and sore discouragement to our vacillating rulers ...
... false ministers has aroused the slumbering lion ; agitation is once more the order of the day . The great meeting recently held in the Manchester Free Trade Hall will be a heavy blow and sore discouragement to our vacillating rulers ...
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... false accusers , or treacherous prophets , who like Morven , the son of Ossluh , make religion the stepping stone to power . Now , that the late Conference of Methodists was , in part , composed of such atrocious characters , is alas ...
... false accusers , or treacherous prophets , who like Morven , the son of Ossluh , make religion the stepping stone to power . Now , that the late Conference of Methodists was , in part , composed of such atrocious characters , is alas ...
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... false religion . Why this additional honor has been thrust upon us is a mystery en- shrined in the hearts of the Guardian Editors , but we suspect that they owed us one for our speech at the meeting held in our hall on behalf of the ...
... false religion . Why this additional honor has been thrust upon us is a mystery en- shrined in the hearts of the Guardian Editors , but we suspect that they owed us one for our speech at the meeting held in our hall on behalf of the ...
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... false . Revolutions are not made with rose - water , nor are men made ripe for great changes of a peaceful character by rose - water politici- ans , of whom we are tempted to say , in the language of Mercutio , -Is it not a lamentable ...
... false . Revolutions are not made with rose - water , nor are men made ripe for great changes of a peaceful character by rose - water politici- ans , of whom we are tempted to say , in the language of Mercutio , -Is it not a lamentable ...
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... FALSE RELIGION . BY SIR E. L. BULWER . ( Continued from page 18. ) And the sun wert down in the west , and the first stars of the twilight began to glimmer , when Morven started from his seat , aud a trembling appeared to seize his ...
... FALSE RELIGION . BY SIR E. L. BULWER . ( Continued from page 18. ) And the sun wert down in the west , and the first stars of the twilight began to glimmer , when Morven started from his seat , aud a trembling appeared to seize his ...
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Page 36 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Page 81 - There is one that passeth all the other, and is the most diligent prelate and preacher in all England. And will ye know who it is? I will tell you: It is the devil.
Page 85 - tis the fall degrades her to a whore ; Let greatness own her, and she's mean no more : Her birth, her beauty, crowds and courts confess, Chaste matrons praise her, and grave bishops bless; In golden chains the willing world she draws, And hers the gospel is, and hers the laws ; Mounts the tribunal, lifts her scarlet head, And sees pale virtue carted in her stead.
Page 46 - How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 31 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Page 31 - But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut the door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Page 83 - Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil. Friends enough you shall find who will hold up to your emulation Wesleys and Oberlins, Saints and Prophets. Thank God for these good men, but say, 'I also am a man.
Page 7 - A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach ; 3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous ; 4 One that ruleth well his own house...
Page 91 - twere vain to tell, But gaze on that of the gazelle, It will assist thy fancy well...
Page 91 - Nay, had she been true, If heaven would make me such another world Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, I'd not have sold her for it.