The British Quarterly Review, Volum 41

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Henry Allon
Hodder and Stoughton, 1865
 

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Pàgina 92 - Brethren, in the Primitive Church there was a godly discipline, that, at the beginning of Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance, and punished in this world, that their souls might be saved in the day of the Lord; and that others, admonished by their example, might be the more afraid to offend.
Pàgina 129 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Pàgina 111 - The air itself is one vast library, on whose pages are for ever written all that man has ever said or woman whispered.
Pàgina 294 - Clearly the rest I behold of the dark-eyed sons of Achaia ; Known to me well are the faces of all ; their names I remember ; Two, two only remain, whom I see not among the commanders, Castor fleet in the car, — Polydeukes brave with the cestus, — Own dear brethren of mine, — one parent loved us as infants.
Pàgina 151 - Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky ; but the stars are there, and will reappear.
Pàgina 461 - Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council, appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations...
Pàgina 196 - Concerning almost all my writings, I must confess that my own judgment is, that fewer, well studied and polished, had been better ; but the reader, who can safely censure the books, is not fit to censure the author, unless he had been upon the place, and acquainted with all the occasions and circumstances. Indeed, for the Saints
Pàgina 257 - We cannot think that a boy could take up the book without feeling its fascination, or without rising a better lad from its perusal. The scenes of life on the sea and in the colonies are peculiarly attractive.
Pàgina 283 - That dense population in extreme distress inhabited an island where there was an Established Church which was not their Church, and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom lived in distant capitals. Thus they had a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and, in addition, the weakest executive in the world.
Pàgina 283 - Well, then, what would honourable gentlemen say if they were reading of a country in that position ? They would say, at once — the remedy is revolution.

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