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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 432
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The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 5

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 704 pages
...minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves,...of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust. Soon after Christianity had achieved its triumph, the principle which had assisted it began to corrupt it....
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Sermons, Volume 1

Octavius Brooks Frothingham - Sermons - 1871 - 690 pages
...minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves,...and the pride of the Portico, and the fasces of the Lictors, and the swords of thirty Legions were humbled in the dust." An eloquent paragraph, but a very...
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The Ecclesiastical Observer, Volume 24

Churches of Christ - 1871 - 446 pages
...It was before Deity, embodied in a human form, walking among men, partakin<* of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves',...manger bleeding on the cross; that the prejudices of Observer, Oet. : the Synagogue, and the doubts of the Academy, and the pride of the Portico, and the...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their iufirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves,...of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust. Soon after Christianity had achieved its triumph, the principle which had assisted it began to corrupt....
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Enigmas of Life

William Rathbone Greg - Future life - 1872 - 348 pages
...It was before the Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves,...swords of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust." religions — that is, religions destitute of this one indispensable false dogma — would not suffice...
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Bidrag til den danske literaturs historie, Volume 4

Niels Matthias Petersen - Danish literature - 1871 - 596 pages
...Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on tlieir bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the...the Portico. and the fasces of the Lictor, and the swoi-ds of thirty legions c were humbled in the dust. (Macaulay, Critical and historical essays, t....
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Enigmas of Life

William Rathbone Greg - Future life - 1873 - 352 pages
...It was before the Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves,...swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust." creatures and yourself." They need (what, indeed, in ultimate analysis is merely the same assertion...
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Method of Teachers' Institutes, and the Theory of Education

Samuel Penniman Bates - Education - 1873 - 398 pages
....weeping over their graves, slumbering in their mangers, bleeding on. the cross, that the prejudices of the Academy, and the pride of the Portico, and...swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust." The feeling which inspires the orator, is the most exalted of any that sways the bosom of man. In the...
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Enigmas of Life...

Wm. R. Greg - 1873 - 354 pages
...before the Di'iby eiulmili«t 'iir> httnTaTTfetm, walking among men. partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross,—that the prejudices of the Synagogue, and the doubts of the Acadsmy, and the pride of the...
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Essays, reprinted from the Edinburgh review

Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 pages
...minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves,...of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust ! Soon after Christianity had achieved its triumph, the principle which had assisted it began to corrupt it....
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