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Nevertheless, the controversy was started and kept up, mostly to the personal prejudice of General Grant, who as usual maintained an imperturbable silence. After the battle, a constant stream of civilian surgeons, and sanitary commission agents, men and women, came up the Tennessee to bring relief to the thousands of maimed and wounded soldiers for whom we had imperfect means of shelter and care.
Infinite Penalty Impossible to Be Rendered Justice Can Delay Good Cannot Perish Testimony of Dickens Endless Punishment Increases Moral Evil The Divine Character Never Changes Time But a Short Epoch Our Capacity of Development Salvation of Infants The Insane Imperfect Christians Their Destiny Good Unchristian Men Where Will They Go?
But again, when nature, relation, and membership is urged to show the fit qualifications wherewith Christ is endued, I intend not to intimate, as if the bottom of all lay here; for then it might be urged that one imperfect has all these; for who knows not that sinful man has all these qualifications in him towards his nature, relations, and members?
Without Him it is a waste of breath to say to people, 'Do not be frightened, and it is wicked counsel to say to men, 'Be at ease. They ought to be terrified, and they ought to be troubled, and they will be some day, whether they think so or not. But then the last thought from this exhortation is and now I speak to Christian people your imperfect possession of this peace is all your own fault.
Say, I couldn't hear anything else!" exclaimed Tom. "Did you think you had to arouse the whole neighborhood just to let me know you were at the door? Jove! I thought you'd have it off the hinges." "If me break, me fix," said Koku, who, from his appearance and from his imperfect command of English, was evidently a foreigner.
It is evident that our five senses have produced all languages, as well as all our ideas. The least imperfect are like the laws: those in which there is the least that is arbitrary are the best. The most complete are necessarily those of the peoples who have cultivated the arts and society. Thus the Hebraic language should be one of the poorest languages, like the people who used to speak it.
In closing this imperfect work by attempting to ascertain the real influence of authors on society, it will be necessary to notice some curious facts in the history of genius. The distinct literary tastes of different nations, and the repugnance they mutually betray for the master-writers of each other, is an important circumstance to the philosophical observer.
An author who has been disposed to devote many years to the labour of illustrating this topic, has need of the earnest support of all who prize the truth; and, considering the extent and profundity of his subject, his work, at the best, must be very imperfect, requiring all the forbearance, and even the generosity of criticism.
There were immortal powers in Watts' mind when those figures surged up in it; but they were neither Time nor Death. He was rather near to his own archetype, and in that mood in which Emerson was when he said, "I the imperfect adore my own perfect."
The author's use of French, though easier, is still very imperfect. A slight essay, or rather story, in the style of Voltaire, entitled "The Masked Prophet," was also completed. It was reported early in the autumn that many regiments were to be mobilized for special service, among them that of La Fère.
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