The Genius of Christianity, Or, The Spirit and Beauty of the Christian ReligionJ. Murphy, 1856 - 763 pages |
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... become deluded with the idea that the Christian religion , or the Church , ( for these terms are synonymous , ) had been a serious ob- stacle in the way of human progress ; that , having been invented in a barbarous age , its dogmas ...
... become deluded with the idea that the Christian religion , or the Church , ( for these terms are synonymous , ) had been a serious ob- stacle in the way of human progress ; that , having been invented in a barbarous age , its dogmas ...
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... become the interpreter of death , struck me with peculiar force . I became a Christian . I did not yield to any great su- pernatural light : my conviction came from the heart . I wept , and I believed . " His ideas having thus under ...
... become the interpreter of death , struck me with peculiar force . I became a Christian . I did not yield to any great su- pernatural light : my conviction came from the heart . I wept , and I believed . " His ideas having thus under ...
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... become his friend by a com- munity of sentiment and misfortune , and who was living in exile at Coppet . The following year- 1806 - he executed his design of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land . Revisiting Italy , he embarked for Greece ...
... become his friend by a com- munity of sentiment and misfortune , and who was living in exile at Coppet . The following year- 1806 - he executed his design of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land . Revisiting Italy , he embarked for Greece ...
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... becomes a visible word , a tongue of fire , which speaks all the languages of the earth , and whose eloquence creates or overthrows empires . To delineate the divine Son , we need only borrow the words of the apostle who beheld him in ...
... becomes a visible word , a tongue of fire , which speaks all the languages of the earth , and whose eloquence creates or overthrows empires . To delineate the divine Son , we need only borrow the words of the apostle who beheld him in ...
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... become involved in impenetrable darkness . Without original sin , how shall we account for the vicious propensity of our nature continually combated by a secret voice which whispers that we were formed for virtue ? Without a primitive ...
... become involved in impenetrable darkness . Without original sin , how shall we account for the vicious propensity of our nature continually combated by a secret voice which whispers that we were formed for virtue ? Without a primitive ...
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Page 331 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 321 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 238 - Return, fair Eve ; Whom fly'st thou ? whom thou fly'st, of him thou art, His flesh, his bone ; to give thee being I lent Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart, Substantial life, to have thee by my side Henceforth an individual solace dear ; Part of my soul, I seek thee, and thee claim, My other half...
Page 395 - But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness...
Page 217 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 350 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 239 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompany'd ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was...
Page 321 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor— one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Page 350 - There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
Page 282 - Ev'n here, where frozen chastity retires, Love finds an altar for forbidden fires. I ought to grieve, but cannot what I ought ; I mourn the lover, not lament the fault ; I view my crime, but kindle at the view...