The Andover Review, Volume 3Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885 - Religion |
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... positive influence has been the greater it might be difficult to de- termine . All that I wish to affirm is that according to the ability and earnestnesss with which the pulpit has endeavored to fulfill its own proper functions it has ...
... positive influence has been the greater it might be difficult to de- termine . All that I wish to affirm is that according to the ability and earnestnesss with which the pulpit has endeavored to fulfill its own proper functions it has ...
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... positive and undeniable truths . And these are the truths which are finding utterance through con- temporary preaching . I would not affirm greater sincerity of the pulpit of our time than of the pulpit of other times . But I do detect ...
... positive and undeniable truths . And these are the truths which are finding utterance through con- temporary preaching . I would not affirm greater sincerity of the pulpit of our time than of the pulpit of other times . But I do detect ...
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... positive force than we have supposed ; if we dis- cover that the compact and wisely organized fundamental groups go far to make nations ; if we get clearer ideas of the place of the family in the actual work of building the social ...
... positive force than we have supposed ; if we dis- cover that the compact and wisely organized fundamental groups go far to make nations ; if we get clearer ideas of the place of the family in the actual work of building the social ...
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... positive and definite the farther it gets from the facts . One other characteristic of tradition is to be mentioned , one which it is of the greatest consequence to rec- ognize : It is , that tradition has no idea of development . What ...
... positive and definite the farther it gets from the facts . One other characteristic of tradition is to be mentioned , one which it is of the greatest consequence to rec- ognize : It is , that tradition has no idea of development . What ...
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... positive results , made the old notion of the unity of the Ho- meric poems as untenable as faith in the genuineness of the Isidorian decretals . Poetic sentiment too is prone , somewhat impatiently , to say its word for the past at ...
... positive results , made the old notion of the unity of the Ho- meric poems as untenable as faith in the genuineness of the Isidorian decretals . Poetic sentiment too is prone , somewhat impatiently , to say its word for the past at ...
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Page 90 - For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Page 577 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 578 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his pleasant fruits.
Page 233 - Thousands of human generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up of Time, and there remains no wreck of them any more ; and Arcturus and Orion and Sirius and the Pleiades are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the Shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar.
Page 539 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 232 - Foolish soul! What Act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if thou wert born and predestined not to be Happy, but to be Unhappy!
Page 579 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Page 580 - I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
Page 510 - You think the Charter would make you free — would to God it would! The Charter is not bad; if the men who use it are not bad ! But will the Charter make you free?
Page 18 - ... or the whole symphony with artful and unimaginable touches adorn and grace the well-studied chords of some choice composer — sometimes the lute or soft organ-stop waiting on elegant voices. either to religious, martial, or civil ditties; which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions.