The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1Houlston and Stonemen, 1866 |
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... living energy and power . Rightly were they called of old winged words ; for ideas are trans- mitted from one to another through their intervention , and in their flight they convey thought from mind to mind . The chief end of language ...
... living energy and power . Rightly were they called of old winged words ; for ideas are trans- mitted from one to another through their intervention , and in their flight they convey thought from mind to mind . The chief end of language ...
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... living air ; by language our very respirations are made " thoughtful breath , " and we can " touch each other to the quick " by its uses . Into this elastic atmosphere we can inspire a creative energy so great as to make it take from us ...
... living air ; by language our very respirations are made " thoughtful breath , " and we can " touch each other to the quick " by its uses . Into this elastic atmosphere we can inspire a creative energy so great as to make it take from us ...
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... living example of Christian consistency . But it is also a distinct Christian precept , " Let everything be done decently and in order . " 99 The decency of the Christian church cannot be maintained if its clergy are to be mere paupers ...
... living example of Christian consistency . But it is also a distinct Christian precept , " Let everything be done decently and in order . " 99 The decency of the Christian church cannot be maintained if its clergy are to be mere paupers ...
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... living , no guaranteed income , no means of honouring the Lord with their substance ? Nothing but an inversion of all order could result from placing the clergy- man beyond the pale of those who have a means of livelihood . The church ...
... living , no guaranteed income , no means of honouring the Lord with their substance ? Nothing but an inversion of all order could result from placing the clergy- man beyond the pale of those who have a means of livelihood . The church ...
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thirteenth year he was removed to Great Yarmouth , to the living of which his father had been preferred , he was shortly thereafter placed under the charge of a surgeon and apothecary , in whose service he remained for some time . On ...
thirteenth year he was removed to Great Yarmouth , to the living of which his father had been preferred , he was shortly thereafter placed under the charge of a surgeon and apothecary , in whose service he remained for some time . On ...
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Page 306 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand...
Page 109 - ... For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment ; and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place ; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool : are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the...
Page 95 - O send out thy light and thy truth : let them lead me ; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Page 425 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; 5 And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 117 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Page 109 - My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment ; and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him ; Sit thou here in a good place...
Page 117 - O'er the weak thrones of wrong. All thought begins in feeling, — wide In the great mass its base is hid, And, narrowing up to thought, stands glorified, A moveless pyramid.
Page 238 - But critic-learning flourished most in France: The rules a nation, born to serve, obeys; And Boileau still in right of Horace sways. But we, brave Britons, foreign laws despised, And kept unconquered, and uncivilized; Fierce for the liberties of wit, and bold, We still defied the Romans, as of old.
Page 129 - A CLOUD lay cradled near the setting sun ; A gleam of crimson tinged its braided snow ; Long had I watched the glory moving on, O'er the still radiance of the lake below ; Tranquil its spirit seemed and floated slow ; Even in its very motion there was rest ; While every breath of eve that chanced to blow Wafted the traveller to the beauteous west.