Memoir of the Rev. Charles Nisbet, D.D.: Late President of Dickinson College, CarlisleR. Carter, 1840 - 357 страница |
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Страница 328 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder. Nothing but thunder...
Страница 18 - Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him The Epistle of PAUL, the Apostle, to the ROMANS.
Страница 328 - Than the soft myrtle ; but man, proud man, Brest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, — His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Страница 75 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace : and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Страница 68 - But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, 9 saith the LORD of hosts.
Страница 159 - From this apparent failure in their expectations of an immediate increase of political happiness, the lovers of liberty and independence began to be less sanguine in their hopes from the American revolution, and to fear that they had built a visionary fabric of government, on the fallacious ideas of public virtue; but that elasticity of the human mind which is nurtured by free institutions, kept them from desponding.
Страница 268 - Nisbet's immediate reply shows his wide reading and intimate acquaintance with the intellectual life and doings of the world, but it shows, too, that he finds in the century nothing good. The letter is profoundly pessimistic — there is nothing worthy of praise or even of approval. He writes: Your design of preaching the funeral sermon of the 18th century is pious and rational. It is fit that you should celebrate the Mother that bore you; and her character is large and various enough to afford numerous...
Страница 138 - And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
Страница 211 - Probably no man on this side of the Atlantic ever brought into the social circle such diversified and ample stores of erudition ; — such an extraordinary knowledge of men, and books, and opinions ; such an amazing fund of rare and racy anecdotes ; and all poured out with so much unstudied simplicity, with such constant flashes of wit and humour, and with such a peculiar mixture of satire and good nature, as kept every co.npany, whether young or old, hanging upon his lips, and doing constant homage...
Страница 60 - portion, or take any money or covenanted gain for the presentation of any one. He that is guilty by conviction or confession is for ever deprived of the patronage of that church by the king's authority and ours.