Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By James StephenCarey and Hart, 1843 - 413 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 56 - Write, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest — for they rest from their labors, and their works, works of piety and love recorded in our hearts and kept in eternal remembrance, — their works do follow them.
الصفحة 164 - ... unfeigned assent and consent as aforesaid, and subscribed the declaration aforesaid, and shall not take and subscribe the oath following : I, AB, do swear that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king...
الصفحة 79 - Paul, I should now be called as it were to fight with beasts at Ephesus, I preached from these words : " Great is Diana of the Ephesians." You may easily guess that there was some noise among the craftsmen, and that I was honoured with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cats thrown at me, whilst engaged in calling them from their favourite but lying vanities. My soul was indeed among lions ; but far the greatest part of my congregation, which was very large, seemed for a while...
الصفحة 77 - His delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent repetition, that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse ; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music.
الصفحة 53 - I see not how you can go through your glorious enterprise, in opposing that execrable villany which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature. Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils ; but if God be for you who can be against you. Are all of them together stronger than God ? Oh ! be not weary of well-doing.
الصفحة 78 - ... at six o'clock in the morning, attended by a large congregation of praying people, I ventured to lift up a standard amongst them in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. Perhaps there were about ten thousand in waiting, not for me, but for Satan's instruments to amuse them. Glad was I to find that I had for once, as it were, got the start of the devil. I mounted my field pulpit : almost all flocked immediately around it. I preached on these words, ' As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,...
الصفحة 391 - Much mirth he hath, and yet less mirth than fancy. His is that nature of humanity Which both ways doth redound, rejoicing now With soarings of the soul, anon brought low : For such the law that rules the larger spirits. This soul of man...
الصفحة 386 - This life and all that it contains, to him Is but a tissue of illuminous dreams Fill'd with book-wisdom, pictured thought, and love That on its own creations spends itself. All things he understands, and nothing does. Profusely eloquent in copious praise Of action, he will talk to you as one Whose wisdom lay in dealings and transactions; Yet so much action as might tie his shoe...
الصفحة 166 - They spent," as Gilbert Burnet says, " several days in logical arguing, to the diversion of the town, who looked upon them as a couple of fencers, engaged in a discussion which could not be brought to an end.
الصفحة 158 - Upon that question he was awakened into some passion, and then told me that it was no forfeiture, but God had changed it as pleased him ; and then he let fly at the Parliament which thwarted him, and especially by name at four or five of those members who were my chief acquaintances, whom I presumed to defend against his passion, and thus four or five hours were spent.