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 174 - Richard, Richard! dost thou think we will hear thee poison the court? Richard, thou art an old fellow, an old knave ; thou hast written books enough to load a cart; every one is as full of sedition (I might say treason), as an egg is full of meat; hadst thou been whipt out of thy writing trade forty years ago it had been happy.
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 64 - ... childish days, I trust, I was enabled to speak with some degree of Gospel authority. Some few mocked ; but most for the present seemed struck : And I have since heard, that a complaint had been, made to the Bishop, that I drove fifteen mad the first sermon. The worthy prelate, as I am informed, wished that the madness might not be forgotten before next Sunday.
الصفحة 157 - He was a man of excellent natural parts for affection and oratory, but not well seen in the principles of his religion ; of a sanguine complexion, naturally of such a vivacity, hilarity, and alacrity, as another man hath when he hath drunken a cup too much ; but naturally also so far from humble thoughts of himself that it was his ruin.
الصفحة 76 - ... 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 312 - ... men. Uniformity of creeds, of discipline, of ritual, and of ceremonies, in' such a world as ours ! — a world •where no two men are not as distinguishable in their mental as in their physical aspect ; where every petty community has its separate system of civil government; where all that meets the eye, and all that arrests the ear, has the stamp of boundless and infinite variety ! What are the...
الصفحة 156 - He would not dispute with me at all ; but he would, in good discourse, very fluently pour out himself in the extolling of free grace, which was savoury to those that had right principles, though he had some misunderstandings of free grace himself.
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 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.