The Congregational Review, Volumen2,Parte1

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Página 486 - He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own ; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone...
Página 7 - All thoughts of ill — all evil deeds, That have their root in thoughts of ill, Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will! All these must first be trampled down Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright field of fair renown The right of eminent domain!
Página 571 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
Página 161 - The real presence of Christ's most blessed body and blood is not therefore to be sought for in the sacrament, but in the worthy receiver of the sacrament.
Página 360 - But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Página 542 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Página 570 - We hope, we aspire, we resolve, we trust, When the morning calls us to life and light; But our hearts grow weary, and ere the night, Our lives are trailing the solemn dust.
Página 529 - He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much: and he that is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much.
Página 112 - Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Página 549 - Deity — unchangefulness in the midst of change — the same seeming will and intent for ever and ever inexorable ! Upon ancient dynasties of Ethiopian and Egyptian kings — upon Greek and Roman, upon Arab and Ottoman conquerors — upon Napoleon dreaming of an Eastern empire — upon battle and pestilence — upon the ceaseless misery of the Egyptian race — upon keen-eyed travelers — Herodotus yesterday, and Warburton to-day...

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