A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation ... Ninth editionChalmers & Collins, 1822 - 284 pages |
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... lofty abstraction above this little theatre of human passions and human anxieties . The mind abandons itself to reverie , and is transfer- red in the ecstacy of its thoughts , to distant and * ! 4 unexplored regions . It sees nature in ...
... lofty abstraction above this little theatre of human passions and human anxieties . The mind abandons itself to reverie , and is transfer- red in the ecstacy of its thoughts , to distant and * ! 4 unexplored regions . It sees nature in ...
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... lofty vessel as it retires from the coast , shrinks into littleness , and at last appears in the form of a small speck on the verge of the hori- zon . The eagle with its expanded wings , is a noble object ; but when it takes its flight ...
... lofty vessel as it retires from the coast , shrinks into littleness , and at last appears in the form of a small speck on the verge of the hori- zon . The eagle with its expanded wings , is a noble object ; but when it takes its flight ...
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... light which this discovery has thrown upon the structure of the universe ; but still it has spread before the eye of the mind a field of very wide and lofty contemplation . Anterior " . to this discovery , the universe might appear 46.
... light which this discovery has thrown upon the structure of the universe ; but still it has spread before the eye of the mind a field of very wide and lofty contemplation . Anterior " . to this discovery , the universe might appear 46.
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... more elevated is the wisdom of him who sits with the docility of a little child , to his Bible , and casts down to its authority , all his lofty imaginations . ni 293690992itet quirollo do dia T conqui lut od rabun 55.
... more elevated is the wisdom of him who sits with the docility of a little child , to his Bible , and casts down to its authority , all his lofty imaginations . ni 293690992itet quirollo do dia T conqui lut od rabun 55.
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... profound exercises- →→→ nor have they gone along with him , as he gave his silent hours to the labours of the midnight oil , and plied that unwearied task , to which the charm of lofty contemplation had allured him- nor have they 61.
... profound exercises- →→→ nor have they gone along with him , as he gave his silent hours to the labours of the midnight oil , and plied that unwearied task , to which the charm of lofty contemplation had allured him- nor have they 61.
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A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation ... Ninth edition Thomas Chalmers Affichage du livre entier - 1830 |
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