Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 4Orestes Augustus Brownson Benjamin H. Greene, 1850 - American essays |
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... teaches it , and makes it the principle of the solution of the problem proposed by Porphyry , and so furiously debated by the Scholastics . * But the idea is the mere possi- bility of existence , and it is a contradiction in terms to ...
... teaches it , and makes it the principle of the solution of the problem proposed by Porphyry , and so furiously debated by the Scholastics . * But the idea is the mere possi- bility of existence , and it is a contradiction in terms to ...
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... teaches ; are not entities , as the old realists are said to have maintained ; are not innate ideas originally inserted in the soul , as Henry Moore , Cudworth , Descartes ( ! ) , Leibnitz , and some Catholic theologians , allege ; nor ...
... teaches ; are not entities , as the old realists are said to have maintained ; are not innate ideas originally inserted in the soul , as Henry Moore , Cudworth , Descartes ( ! ) , Leibnitz , and some Catholic theologians , allege ; nor ...
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... teach the Christian people , by the miraculous exhibi- tion of the cross , how consistent is the use of sacred forms . " This last sentence conveys an excellent thought ; and evidently , as the general and public use of images , and ...
... teach the Christian people , by the miraculous exhibi- tion of the cross , how consistent is the use of sacred forms . " This last sentence conveys an excellent thought ; and evidently , as the general and public use of images , and ...
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... teach according to the detestable heretics , and to despise the ecclesiastical traditions , or by any new invention to make an opinion , or to cast off any one of those things which have been committed to the Church , either the Gospel ...
... teach according to the detestable heretics , and to despise the ecclesiastical traditions , or by any new invention to make an opinion , or to cast off any one of those things which have been committed to the Church , either the Gospel ...
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... teach grammar , when he would fain have written poems ; and from day to day , and year to year , the trivial things of life postponed the great designs which he felt capable of accomplishing , but never had the resolute courage to begin ...
... teach grammar , when he would fain have written poems ; and from day to day , and year to year , the trivial things of life postponed the great designs which he felt capable of accomplishing , but never had the resolute courage to begin ...
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Page 100 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power, Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire, — that were low indeed ! That were an ignominy...
Page 98 - Seek ye therefore first the Kingdom of God and His justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Page 443 - I have loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile...
Page 430 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me,
Page 445 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness...
Page 507 - ... territory or dominions of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States are at peace, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars, and imprisoned not more than three years.
Page 68 - and died away into silence. Then he beheld, in a dream, once more the home of his childhood ; Green Acadian meadows, with sylvan rivers among them, Village, and mountain, and woodlands ; and, walking under their shadow, As in the days of her youth, Evangeline rose in his vision. Tears came into his eyes ; and as slowly he lifted his eyelids, Vanished the vision away, but Evangeline knelt by his bedside. Vainly he strove to whisper her name, for the accents unuttered Died on his lips, and their motion...
Page 68 - Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking. Then through those realms of shade, in multiplied reverberations, Heard he that cry of pain, and through the hush that succeeded Whispered a gentle voice, in accents tender and saint-like, '• Gabriel ! O my beloved !
Page 59 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses I Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows.
Page 68 - All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience! And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom, Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured, "Father, I thank thee!