Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 58
... speak of God , and carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in anoth- er country , in another world , believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent ...
... speak of God , and carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in anoth- er country , in another world , believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent ...
Page 59
... speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts , on a few lives . We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors , and , as ...
... speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts , on a few lives . We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors , and , as ...
Page 61
... speak- ing . Speak rather of that which relies , because it works and is . Who has more obedience than I masters me , though he should not raise his finger . Round him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits . We fancy it rhetoric ...
... speak- ing . Speak rather of that which relies , because it works and is . Who has more obedience than I masters me , though he should not raise his finger . Round him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits . We fancy it rhetoric ...
Page 63
... speaking the truth . Check this lying hospitality and lying affection . Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse . Say to them , O father , O mother , O - wife , O brother , O friend ...
... speaking the truth . Check this lying hospitality and lying affection . Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse . Say to them , O father , O mother , O - wife , O brother , O friend ...
Page 69
... speak to us , lest we die . Speak thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . ' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors , and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his ...
... speak to us , lest we die . Speak thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . ' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors , and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his ...
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