Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1804 |
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... duty , have impelled me to come forward to the public on this occasion . But there is a season when inactivity were a crime ; and public ad- monition , even at the hazard of personal com- forts , rises into an indispensable obligation ...
... duty , have impelled me to come forward to the public on this occasion . But there is a season when inactivity were a crime ; and public ad- monition , even at the hazard of personal com- forts , rises into an indispensable obligation ...
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... duty , and conduces to our hap- piness . In these inquiries therefore , wherever I perceive any glimmering of truth before me , I readily pursue , and endea- vour to trace it to it's source , without any reserve or caution of pushing ...
... duty , and conduces to our hap- piness . In these inquiries therefore , wherever I perceive any glimmering of truth before me , I readily pursue , and endea- vour to trace it to it's source , without any reserve or caution of pushing ...
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... duties of humanity , with the monstrous theology , with the subtleties and the contradictory schemes of contemporary moralists among the Greeks and Romans ( who nevertheless had , in all probability , profited 3 and concludes , from ...
... duties of humanity , with the monstrous theology , with the subtleties and the contradictory schemes of contemporary moralists among the Greeks and Romans ( who nevertheless had , in all probability , profited 3 and concludes , from ...
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... duty . " Ibid . PP . 15 & 16 . ལྕ * ཙ TO 12 Mr.Wakefield's argument has been ably supported by other writers , especially by Archdeacon Paley , " Evid . " ii . 306 . 2d ed . and " Campbell on Mir . " part ii . sect . 7 . # 8 Ibid . p ...
... duty . " Ibid . PP . 15 & 16 . ལྕ * ཙ TO 12 Mr.Wakefield's argument has been ably supported by other writers , especially by Archdeacon Paley , " Evid . " ii . 306 . 2d ed . and " Campbell on Mir . " part ii . sect . 7 . # 8 Ibid . p ...
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... the Theological Repository , he will receive , I am persuaded , no inconsiderable portion of information and delight . " " Reply , " & c . p . 27 , & c . their duty . Where I prove erroneous in my censure 20 GILBERT WAKEFIELD . 35.
... the Theological Repository , he will receive , I am persuaded , no inconsiderable portion of information and delight . " " Reply , " & c . p . 27 , & c . their duty . Where I prove erroneous in my censure 20 GILBERT WAKEFIELD . 35.
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Page 32 - So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Page 325 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
Page 32 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; And thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, Until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies.
Page 448 - I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong ; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right.
Page 439 - Yet conjectural criticism has been of great use in the learned world; nor is it my intention to depreciate a study, that has exercised so many mighty minds, from the revival of learning to our own age, from the bishop of Aleria to English Bentley.
Page 320 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
Page 320 - Observe the opportunity, and beware of evil ; and be not ashamed when it concerneth thy soul. For there is a shame that bringeth sin; and there is a shame which is glory and grace.
Page 401 - I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 47 - But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest : and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Page 31 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amor, ites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.