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We take our leave of Leeds , under a pledge , that we will return , whenever a
priest will meet us in public discussion , or as soon as the Infidels have provided
themselves with a chapel . Our visit here has entailed considerable expence on
our ...
We take our leave of Leeds , under a pledge , that we will return , whenever a
priest will meet us in public discussion , or as soon as the Infidels have provided
themselves with a chapel . Our visit here has entailed considerable expence on
our ...
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These placards have given rise to a question , on which there is a difference of
opinion , viz . that it was the bounden duty of the clergy and Ministers to meet the
challenge , and defend the faith which they professed that they are ready on all ...
These placards have given rise to a question , on which there is a difference of
opinion , viz . that it was the bounden duty of the clergy and Ministers to meet the
challenge , and defend the faith which they professed that they are ready on all ...
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Such defenders of the Christian religion as we meet , are made up of religious
tracts , and are entirely disqualified to cope with us iu our historical researches as
to the origin and progress of that religion . Their rapid utterance and angry tones
...
Such defenders of the Christian religion as we meet , are made up of religious
tracts , and are entirely disqualified to cope with us iu our historical researches as
to the origin and progress of that religion . Their rapid utterance and angry tones
...
Page 55
Men , made to be ingenuous , frank , and honourable , to bear the index of the
heart upon the forehead , and the mind's expression in the tongue's utterance ,
meet together , as if the very terms of their covenant had been , that not a word of
...
Men , made to be ingenuous , frank , and honourable , to bear the index of the
heart upon the forehead , and the mind's expression in the tongue's utterance ,
meet together , as if the very terms of their covenant had been , that not a word of
...
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It is certain that we sometimes meet with instances which seem to make against
this general supposition . We have known people , who having the appearance
of great zeal in religion , have yet wanted even the common affections of
humanity ...
It is certain that we sometimes meet with instances which seem to make against
this general supposition . We have known people , who having the appearance
of great zeal in religion , have yet wanted even the common affections of
humanity ...
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Page 305 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 457 - The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say ' This is no flattery : these are counsellors 10 That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 151 - I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Page 518 - And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Page 393 - European powers, but a moral war which raged in every family, which set the father against the son, and the son against the father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother.
Page 458 - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Page 235 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King!
Page 519 - And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.