Views of Christian Truth, Piety, and Morality: Selected from the Writings of Dr. Priestley : with a Memoir of His LifeJ. Munroe and Company, 1834 - 207 pagina's |
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Pagina xxiii
... continually sounded from their pulpits in Birmingham and in other pla- ces , that he was a declared enemy to revelation and a setter up of reason in its stead ; that he had publicly said , he would never rest till he had pulled down ...
... continually sounded from their pulpits in Birmingham and in other pla- ces , that he was a declared enemy to revelation and a setter up of reason in its stead ; that he had publicly said , he would never rest till he had pulled down ...
Pagina xliv
... continual insult ) to leave my native country , I found it necessary to provide for my sons elsewhere . My eldest son was settled in a business , which promised to be very advantageous , at Manchester ; but his partner , though a man of ...
... continual insult ) to leave my native country , I found it necessary to provide for my sons elsewhere . My eldest son was settled in a business , which promised to be very advantageous , at Manchester ; but his partner , though a man of ...
Pagina lxii
... continually , and in my own case , that many events are more to be lamented than the death of children and friends . In that case the mind is relieved from farther anxiety ; and though we have reason to be satisfied when we have done ...
... continually , and in my own case , that many events are more to be lamented than the death of children and friends . In that case the mind is relieved from farther anxiety ; and though we have reason to be satisfied when we have done ...
Pagina lxvi
... continually . I seem now to see it with other eyes , and all other reading is comparatively insipid . ” Thus serenely and happily , with a cheerful confidence in divine Providence and a bright hope of heaven , did the life of this ...
... continually . I seem now to see it with other eyes , and all other reading is comparatively insipid . ” Thus serenely and happily , with a cheerful confidence in divine Providence and a bright hope of heaven , did the life of this ...
Pagina 10
... continually led out of our- selves in our pursuit of happiness ; I shall now consider far- ther , how all our appetites and passions , which are the springs of all our actions , do , in their own nature , tend to lead us out of ...
... continually led out of our- selves in our pursuit of happiness ; I shall now consider far- ther , how all our appetites and passions , which are the springs of all our actions , do , in their own nature , tend to lead us out of ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 22 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ? or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Pagina 35 - When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
Pagina 23 - And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father which is in heaven.
Pagina 165 - Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ. Such a supposition, in fact, only shifts the difficulty without obviating it ; it is more inconceivable that a number of persons should agree to write such a history, than that one should furnish the subject of it.
Pagina 23 - Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Pagina 35 - Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in, and dwell there : and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Pagina 2 - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Pagina 165 - What sweetness, what purity in his manners ! what an affecting gracefulness in his delivery ! what sublimity in his maxims ! what profound wisdom in his discourses ! what presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies!
Pagina 174 - Being, in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways.
Pagina 165 - What presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies! How great the command over his passions! Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live, and so die, without weakness, and without ostentation...