The Life of Edward Irving, Minister of the National Scotch Church, London: Illustrated by His Journals and Correspondence, Tom 1Hurst and Blackett, 1862 |
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... strength and dauntless spirit made the idea congenial to him , and he had no very brilliant prospects at home ; indeed , this thought seems to run , a kind of adventurous possibility , through a great part of his life , changing in ...
... strength and dauntless spirit made the idea congenial to him , and he had no very brilliant prospects at home ; indeed , this thought seems to run , a kind of adventurous possibility , through a great part of his life , changing in ...
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... strength to procure the means of prosecuting their studies . With theological students in particular this was almost the rule ; for few were the fortunate men who were rich enough to spend their eight long years entirely in study ...
... strength to procure the means of prosecuting their studies . With theological students in particular this was almost the rule ; for few were the fortunate men who were rich enough to spend their eight long years entirely in study ...
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... heard now and then proceeding from the schoolroom which roused the pity and indignation of the audience of neighbours out of doors . One of these , a joiner , deacon of his trade , and SEVERE DISCIPLINE . 53 a man of great strength ,
... heard now and then proceeding from the schoolroom which roused the pity and indignation of the audience of neighbours out of doors . One of these , a joiner , deacon of his trade , and SEVERE DISCIPLINE . 53 a man of great strength ,
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... strength , is reported to have appeared one day , with his shirt - sleeves rolled up to his elbows and an axe on his shoulder , at the door of the school- room , asking , “ Do ye want a hand * the day , Mr. Irving ? " with dreadful ...
... strength , is reported to have appeared one day , with his shirt - sleeves rolled up to his elbows and an axe on his shoulder , at the door of the school- room , asking , “ Do ye want a hand * the day , Mr. Irving ? " with dreadful ...
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... strength , rose in- voluntarily among the youths commanded by such a leader . They learned to suspend their very snowball bickers till the girls had passed out of harm's way ; and awing the less fortunate gamins of the little town by ...
... strength , rose in- voluntarily among the youths commanded by such a leader . They learned to suspend their very snowball bickers till the girls had passed out of harm's way ; and awing the less fortunate gamins of the little town by ...
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Strona 34 - was in his native town of Annan. He was fresh from Edinburgh, with college prizes, high character and promise : he had come to see our schoolmaster, who had also been his. We heard of famed professors, of high matters classical, mathematical, a whole wonderland of knowledge ; nothing but joy, health, hopefulness without end looked out from the blooming young man.
Strona 110 - I will preach to them if you think fit," he is reported to have said ; " but if they bear with my preaching, they will be the first people who have borne with it!" In this spirit, with the unconscious humility of a child, sorry not to satisfy his judges, but confessing the failure which he
Strona 163 - Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for. I ask you, therefore, for what intent you have sent for me
Strona 148 - because alone together; and therefore doubly dutiful to Him who is the husband of the widow, and the Father of the fatherless. I have sent this under cover to my friend
Strona 177 - from more than ten years' meditation upon the subject, that the chief obstacle to the progress of divine truth over the minds of men, is the want of its being sufficiently presented to them. In this Christian country there are perhaps nine-tenths of every class who know nothing at all about the
Strona 257 - He took my son to His own more fatherly bosom, and revealed in my bosom the sure expectation and faith of His own eternal Son ! Dear season of my life, ever to be remembered, when I knew the sweetness and fruitfulness of such joy and sorrow.
Strona 72 - it up in his great hand, thrust it into a pocket, and went on as fluently as before. There does not exist a congregation in Scotland which that act would not have taken by storm. His success was triumphant. To criticise a man so visibly independent of " the paper " would have been presumption indeed.
Strona 96 - all I have my health to recover. And then once more I shall venture my bark upon the waters of this wide realm, and if she cannot weather it, I shall steer west, and try the waters of another world.' So he reasons and resolves ; but surely a worthier destiny awaits him than voluntary exile. And for myself, here I am to remain until further
Strona 183 - Fourth. For being a common brawler. Fifth. For being a common swearer. Sixth, For being of very common understanding. And, Seventh. For following divisive courses, subversive of the discipline of the order to which he belongs, and contrary to the principles of Christian fellowship and charity.
Strona 140 - shall I find another man of transcendent genius whom I can love as much as I admire—into whose house I can go in and out like a son — whom I can revere as a father, and serve with the devotion of a child — never shall I find another hundred consociated