Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D. D.: Constituting, with Notes, a Memoir of His Life, Volumen1C. Scribner, 1860 |
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... Hebrew , once on Greek , once on the Confession of Faith , once on Biblical History . Hear Lectures once on Theology , ( preparatory to the full and regular theolog- ical Lectures , ) twice on Biblical history , once on the Criticism of ...
... Hebrew , once on Greek , once on the Confession of Faith , once on Biblical History . Hear Lectures once on Theology , ( preparatory to the full and regular theolog- ical Lectures , ) twice on Biblical history , once on the Criticism of ...
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... Hebrew passage , a difficult mathematical query , and a difficult point in morals since tea , so that I am in a very proper state to utter that farrago of floating ideas commonly called when taken in a body , and put on paper , " A ...
... Hebrew passage , a difficult mathematical query , and a difficult point in morals since tea , so that I am in a very proper state to utter that farrago of floating ideas commonly called when taken in a body , and put on paper , " A ...
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... Hebrew roots , one feels little energy of mind or body ; and moreover there is such a stagnation hereabouts at this time , that I can promise you noth- ing interesting . The trustees of the college met yesterday and on Tuesday , for the ...
... Hebrew roots , one feels little energy of mind or body ; and moreover there is such a stagnation hereabouts at this time , that I can promise you noth- ing interesting . The trustees of the college met yesterday and on Tuesday , for the ...
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... Hebrew- and made to read two exercises upon passages of Scripture pre- viously appointed . On Monday , 8th instant , the examination of the Senior class [ college ] takes place , which continues a week — more or less . After that time ...
... Hebrew- and made to read two exercises upon passages of Scripture pre- viously appointed . On Monday , 8th instant , the examination of the Senior class [ college ] takes place , which continues a week — more or less . After that time ...
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... Hebrew . I have read a good deal of French lately , and also twelve books of the Iliad in Greek . I would try [ to write ] for the Quarterly , but I do not know what to review . Every thing becomes stale before it reaches me . The ...
... Hebrew . I have read a good deal of French lately , and also twelve books of the Iliad in Greek . I would try [ to write ] for the Quarterly , but I do not know what to review . Every thing becomes stale before it reaches me . The ...
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Alexander Arminian believe Bible Brunswick called Calvinistic character Charlotte CHARLOTTE COUNTY Charlotte Court House Christ Christian church confess congregation delightful discourse divine doctrine doubt duty English expect faith father favour fear feel French German give God's gospel hear heard heart Hebrew hope hypochondria interesting J. W. Alexander John labour late lecture letter literary live look Lord means ment Methodist mind ministers months morning NASSAU HALL never Newark night palæstra paper pastor perhaps persons Petersburg Philadelphia piety pleased pleasure pray prayer preached preacher Presbyterian present PRINCETON Professor pulpit Quaker religion religious Repertory scarcely Scripture Seminary sermon soul speak spirit Sunday School suppose talk taste Theological thing thought tion Trenton truth Virginia week wish word write York young
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Página 60 - And not a voice was idle; with the din Smitten, the precipices rang aloud; The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron; while far distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy not unnoticed, while the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away.
Página 173 - But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us...
Página 32 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Página 62 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth, so is every one that is born of the spirit.
Página 347 - I have no pleasure in them"; while the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain; in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened...
Página 53 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take; the clouds ye so much dread are big with mercy, and shall break^ in blessings on your head.
Página 191 - And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Página 7 - ... shall set out or not, because he does not readily conceive how he shall ever reach the end of it ; for he knows that, by the simple operation of moving one foot forward first and then the other, he shall be sure to accomplish it. So it is in the present case, and so it is in every similar case. A letter is written, as a conversation is maintained or a journey performed, not by preconcerted or premeditated means, a new contrivance, or an invention never heard of before, but merely by maintaining...
Página 310 - But why then publish? Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write...
Página 277 - No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, then* imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society...