The Task of To-dayJ. Watson, 1852 - 144 páginas |
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... story , a solemn religious service was instituted , to be annually performed on the anniversary of the king's execution , which custom has been con- tinued until the present day . No proof could be more complete or convincing . But let ...
... story , a solemn religious service was instituted , to be annually performed on the anniversary of the king's execution , which custom has been con- tinued until the present day . No proof could be more complete or convincing . But let ...
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... story was a downright imposture from the beginning . The Vengeur , after a most gallant defence , being in a sinking state , struck her * Lamartine's History of the Girondists . Bohn's Edition , vol . iii . , p . 406 . VALUE OF ANNUAL ...
... story was a downright imposture from the beginning . The Vengeur , after a most gallant defence , being in a sinking state , struck her * Lamartine's History of the Girondists . Bohn's Edition , vol . iii . , p . 406 . VALUE OF ANNUAL ...
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... story was and is so implicitly and fervently believed in France that we may well imagine a Vengeur banquet , at which the first gob- let should annually be quaffed to the immortal memories of the he- roes of June 1st . Would such an ...
... story was and is so implicitly and fervently believed in France that we may well imagine a Vengeur banquet , at which the first gob- let should annually be quaffed to the immortal memories of the he- roes of June 1st . Would such an ...
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... stories . Hardly two centuries ago a man in England was considered , even by the educated , as little better than an atheist , if he doubted that many old women were endowed by the devil with the power of working miracles without number ...
... stories . Hardly two centuries ago a man in England was considered , even by the educated , as little better than an atheist , if he doubted that many old women were endowed by the devil with the power of working miracles without number ...
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... stories , were feigned or circulated during the life of Jesus , or whether they were invented , narrated , and at last ... story grows , and in any country where all are igno- rant - where all believe that miracles occasionally occur to ...
... stories , were feigned or circulated during the life of Jesus , or whether they were invented , narrated , and at last ... story grows , and in any country where all are igno- rant - where all believe that miracles occasionally occur to ...
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Página 71 - All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet, saying, tell ye the daughter of Sion, behold, thy King cometh unto thee meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
Página 83 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth ; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Página 46 - He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Página 73 - And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
Página 86 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Página 76 - Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
Página 104 - The wonder then turns on the great process, by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is no God. What ages and what lights are requisite for THIS attainment! This intelligence involves the very attributes of Divinity, while a God is denied. For unless this man is omnipresent, unless he is at this moment in every place in the universe, he cannot know but there may be in some place manifestations of a Deity, by which even lie would be overpowered. If he does not...
Página 86 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of 'Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Página 45 - Did ye never read in the scriptures, •The stone which the builders rejected, The same is become the head of the corner: This is the Lord's doing, And it is marvellous in our eyes?
Página 39 - But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be Ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.