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Page 76 - I beheld, and lo ! a great multitude, which no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues...
Page 10 - In my time, the academy was in a state peculiarly favourable to the serious pursuit of truth, as the students were about equally divided upon every question of much importance, such as Liberty and Necessity, the sleep of the soul, and all the articles of theological orthodoxy and heresy; in consequence of which, all these topics were tlie subject of continual discussion.
Page 79 - Portraiture ; or, Memoirs of three of Mr. Richmond's Children. With Engravings, price 6s. in cloth. DR. BUCHANAN. —Memoirs of the life and Writings of Claudius Buchanan, DD By HUGH PEARSON, DD Dean of Salisbury. With Portrait, price 6s. in cloth. CHURCH...
Page 67 - Such is the generosity of the greater part of young men, that so far from being disposed to neglect or despise the instructions of their master, provided he shows some serious intention of being of use to them, they are generally inclined to pardon a great deal of incorrectness in the performance of his duty, and sometimes even to conceal from the public a good deal of gross negligence.
Page 135 - ... inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost, to take upon himself the sacred office ? To which he deliberately answers,
Page 55 - hold his peace." [then a —, which implies the omission of 46 lines,* and the getting into another chapter] " Must we then be " dumb ? No ; for there is a time to speak and a time to be " silent. And if we must give an account of every idle word, " take care, lest you have to answer also for idle silence.
Page 13 - The arguments by which every possible modification of error is attempted to be supported, were carefully marshalled in hostile array against the principles generally embraced ; while the Theological Professor prided himself on the steady impartiality with which he held the balance betwixt the contending systems...
Page 18 - My reason for thinking that our daily services might be omitted altogether, without any material detriment to religion, is simply that, as far as my means of observation extend, with an immense majority of our congregation it is not a religious service at all, and that to the remaining few it is the least impressive and edifying that can well be conceived.
Page 34 - They have hands, but they handle not: Feet have they, but they walk not : Neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them ; So is every one that trusteth in them.
Page 13 - Music instructs me which be lyric moods, — Let her instruct me rather how to show No weeping voice for loss of Fortune's goods. Geometry gives measure to th' earth below ; Rather let her instruct me how to measure What is enough for need, what fit for pleasure.