Introductory Lectures on Modern History: Delivered in Lent Term, 1842 ; with the Inaugural Lecture, Delivered in December, 1841

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Strona 139 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Strona 44 - imply a sinful distrust, want of faith in Christ's wisdom, and goodness, and power." The church has required obedience and punished disobedience ; I will not appeal to St. Paul's expression of " delivering a man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord," because what is there meant is uncertain, and the power claimed may be extraordinary ; but I maintain that the sentence of excommunication, which has been held always to belong to the church,...
Strona 32 - Two things we ought to learn from history ; one,' that we are not in ourselves superior to our fathers ; another, that we are shamefully and monstrously inferior to them, if we do not advance beyond them.
Strona 296 - In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them." The truth is, that Nelson wore on the day of Trafalgar the same coat which he had commonly worn for weeks, on which the order of the Bath was embroidered, as was then usual.
Strona 245 - ... to try how much of a papist might be brought in without popery : and to destroy as much as they could of the Gospel, without bringing themselves into danger of being destroyed by the Law.
Strona 126 - Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, 19th of February, 1841.
Strona 3 - Still it is not without interest to dwell on these years, the profound peace of which is contrasted so strongly with the almost incessant agitations of his subsequent life, and
Strona 53 - An alliance between Church and State in a Christian Commonwealth is, in my opinion, an. idle and a fanciful speculation. An alliance is between two things, that are in their nature distinct tinct and independent, such as between two sovereign States. But in a Christian Commonwealth the Church and the State are one and the same thing, being different integral parts of the same whole.
Strona 107 - I do not make any apology for the length of this discussion, because the subject was one which lay directly in our way, and could not be passed over hastily; and I am never averse to showing how closely connected are those studies which we will attempt to divide by the names religious and secular, injuring both by trying to separate them.
Strona 245 - ... laboured to bring in an English , though not a Roman popery : I mean not only the outside and dress of it, but equally absolute ; a blind dependence of the people upon the clergy, and of the clergy upon themselves ; and have opposed the papacy beyond the seas that they might settle one beyond the water...

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