Foxglove Manor: A Novel, Volum 1Chatto and Windus, 1884 - 284 sider |
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Side 236 - But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen : and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
Side 15 - Ye men of Athens, all things which I behold bear witness to your carefulness in religion...
Side 77 - If where two or three are gathered together, He is in the midst, much more is He among you. For that which a man praying by himself is not able to receive, that he shall receive praying with a multitude. Why? Because although his own virtue has not, yet the common consent has much power. " Where two or three," it is said,
Side 236 - And if Christ be not risen, our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
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Side 180 - No,' because you, a gentleman with all the proud instincts of class strong in you, would not ask to wed me if you knew my antecedents." Here a burning blush flamed on her cheek. She paused, and I took up the tale : " As to love, I fancy I have enough for both. I do not ask you to love me — I only ask you to let me love you. And, for the mysterious antecedents as reasons, they are nowhere.
Side 43 - He flung himself down on the sofa again — while the baby clenching its tiny fist, stretched and murmured in its sleep — and bowed himself together, resting his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands. " I'm at the bottom of it. It's all my fault,
Side 119 - The first and paramount aim of religion is not to prepare for another world, but to make the best of this world ; or, more correctly stated, to make this world better, wiser, and happier. It is to be good, and do the most good we can now and here, and to help others to be and do the same. It is to seek with all our might the highest welfare of the world we live in, and the realization of its ideal...
Side 238 - Sin was a fiction, and the sense of sinfulness a morbid development of the imagination. Every man was a law unto himself, and that law must be obeyed. A man's actions were the outcome of his constitution. He was not morally responsible for them. Indeed, moral responsibility was a philosophical error.