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Friday, December 26, 2008
How the sermon got into the Stevinus
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"I cannot conceive how it is possible, quoth my uncle Toby, for such a thing as a sermon to have got into my Stevinus." Lau...
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Elliott on "The collapse of dogmatic Protestantism" (1893)
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"The collapse of dogmatic Protestantism is our opportunity. Denominations, and 'creeds,' and 'schools,' and 'confes...
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Dalrymple on "Coptic influence on the Celtic Church" and Islam
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"The proudest boast of Celtic monasticism was that, in the words of the Antiphonary of Bangor: This house full of delight Is built on t...
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
James on Bruckner on emancipation
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"while the whole world, including the West, dealt in slaves, only the West came up with the idea of setting them free." The "...
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
I'm going to have to find a way to quote here the trombone solo in the first movement of Mahler's Third Symphony
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This is too much Edwards for one sitting, but he's just so darn quotable!
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"there is a great difference between these two things, viz., lively imaginations arising from strong affections, and strong affections ...
Edwards on the indispensability of the in-formation of the MIND
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"Holy affections are not heat without light; but evermore arise from the information of the understanding, some spiritual instruction t...
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