Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Being a History of His Religious Opinions

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Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1875 - 388 pagina's

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Pagina 383 - ... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it.
Pagina vi - Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. Father Newman informs us that it need not, and on the whole ought not to be; that cunning is the weapon which heaven has given to the Saints wherewith to withstand the brute male force of the wicked world which marries and is given in marriage. Whether his notion be doctrinally correct or not, it is at least historically so.
Pagina 263 - And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will show to you to-day : for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Pagina 301 - For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water : whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Pagina 2 - I used to wish the Arabian Tales were true: my imagination ran on unknown influences, on magical powers, and talismans I thought life might be a dream, or I an Angel, and all this world a deception, my fellowangels by a playful device concealing themselves from me, and deceiving me with the semblance of a material world.
Pagina 242 - God, the human race is implicated in some terrible aboriginal calamity. It is out of joint with the purposes of its Creator.
Pagina 124 - And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Pagina 1 - I was brought up from a child to take great delight in reading the Bible ; but I had no formed religious convictions till I was fifteen. Of course I had a perfect knowledge of my Catechism.
Pagina 19 - O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul !' This was followed by a general laugh.
Pagina 300 - And it came to pass, as they Were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha : and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

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