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... we teach , and justice what we practise . Acts , however , are more eloquent than words , and most willingly do we conclude by saying LET OUR ACTS SPEAK FOR US . Freuch Portrait Gallery . No. 1. - MIRABEAU . denly THE ...
... we teach , and justice what we practise . Acts , however , are more eloquent than words , and most willingly do we conclude by saying LET OUR ACTS SPEAK FOR US . Freuch Portrait Gallery . No. 1. - MIRABEAU . denly THE ...
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... speak . Special meetings they call them , and special they assuredly are , but not so much special meetings as special impostures . With the blessing of God , an end shall be put to them . We are girding up our loins for the day of ...
... speak . Special meetings they call them , and special they assuredly are , but not so much special meetings as special impostures . With the blessing of God , an end shall be put to them . We are girding up our loins for the day of ...
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... speak . Now the son of Osslah laughed secretly at the foolishness of men ; he loved them not , for they had mocked him , he honored them not , for he had blinded the wisest of their elders . He shunned their feasts and merriment , and ...
... speak . Now the son of Osslah laughed secretly at the foolishness of men ; he loved them not , for they had mocked him , he honored them not , for he had blinded the wisest of their elders . He shunned their feasts and merriment , and ...
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Voltaire says in a letter to Frederic the Great , when speaking of the theologians- " Every thinking being who is not of their opinion , is an atheist ; and every king who does not favour them is to suffer dam- nation . Their words ...
Voltaire says in a letter to Frederic the Great , when speaking of the theologians- " Every thinking being who is not of their opinion , is an atheist ; and every king who does not favour them is to suffer dam- nation . Their words ...
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... speaking . " Then with regard to a universal cessation of labor on the Sabbath , is it not clear that some labor must be performed on every day of the week ? Even Christians have their Sabbath - workers in the shape of pew - openers ...
... speaking . " Then with regard to a universal cessation of labor on the Sabbath , is it not clear that some labor must be performed on every day of the week ? Even Christians have their Sabbath - workers in the shape of pew - openers ...
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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.