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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The difference between manufactured poems and works of genius is not less than between an egg and an egg-shell; yet at a distance they both look alike." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is very natural; he who would write prose must have something to say; but he wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me have the pleasure of taking wine with you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poetry is the breath and fine spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perfection of style should be sought by all those who believe themselves called to diffuse useful thoughts. Style, which is only the form appropriated to a subject by art and reflection, is the passport of which every thought has need in order to circulate, expand, and lodge its...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Edinburgh Review," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Form for yourself a style which shall be the expression of yourself. Study our French language by attentive reading, making it your care to mark constructions, turns of expression, delicacies of style, but without ever adopting the manner of any master. In the works of these mas...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Any man [he of course means any man with good things in him] as he walks through the streets may contrive to jot down an independent thought, a short-hand memorandum of a great truth; but the labor of composition begins when you have to put your separate threads of thought into ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Merry Wives of Windsor we recognize Shakespeare not less palpably than in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "King Lear. In his" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Recollections of Charles Lamb De Quincey writes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Far...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The sudden electric injection of light into a thought or object or sentiment--in this consists the gift poetical, a gift which implies a sensibility so keen and select as to kindle the light, and an intellect fine and firm enough to hold and transmit it. A writer in whom there i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ghosts and witches are the best machinery for a modern epic. So said Charles Fox, who fed his imagination on verse of this aspiring class. Fox was no literary oracle, and his opinion is here cited only as evidence that the superearthly is an acknowledged element in the epopee. T...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Light half-believers in our casual creeds." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Iliad, no" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Paradise Lost." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vicar of Wakefield (not to go so high as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tristram Shandy and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don Quixote ) is worth all their hundred volumes of tales put together. What insight, what weight, and faithfulness, and refinemen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Inferno, is there a sentence so aglow as this line and a half of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Paradise Lost" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave; Who, with a body filled, and vacant mind, Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread; Never sees horrid night, the child of hell; But, like a lac...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lear," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in which he passes" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is almost super-Dantesque, concentrating in a few ejaculative lines a fearful foretaste of trans-earthly torment for a bad life on earth. And the great ghost in" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hamlet," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Divina Commedia." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible, that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as to seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. Thus writes a great poet, Shelley, in his beautiful" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Paradise Lost, conceived in Milton's brain, could not utter itself in any other mode than the unrhymed harmonies that have given to our language a new music. It could not have been written in the Spenserian stanza. What would the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fairy ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Divina Commedia." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Inferno, or with those from the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Paradiso, in Mr. Longfellow's less free unrhymed version, the resources and flexibility of Mr. Dayman in handling the difficult measure will b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Per piu fiate gli occhi ci sospinse Quella lettura." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Idyls of the King." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Francesca! tears o'erfill mine eyes, Such pity thy keen pangs awake. But say: in th' hour of sweetest sighs, By what and how found Love relief And broke thy doubtful longing's spell? And she:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is no greater grief Than joy in sorrow...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ma dimmi: al tempo de' dolci sospiri:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But tell me: in th' hour of sweet sighs." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Than joy in sorrow to retell," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Inferno" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Paradiso" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Paradiso" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou look'st so, father, what hast thou? Still I nor wept nor answer made That whole day through, nor the next night, Till a new sun rose on the world. As in our doleful prison came A little glimmer, and I saw On faces four my own pale stare, Both of my hands for grief I bit; An...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A man of letters smiles at first involuntarily to see Napoleon apply to each of these famous campaigns a methodical criticism, just as we would proceed with a work of the mind, with an epic or tragic poem. But is not a campaign of a great captain equally a work of genius? Napole...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Causeries du Lundi, the one on Madame Récamier, the other on Napoleon. Read especially the series of paragraphs beginning," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some natures are born pure, and have received _quand même_ the gift of innocence, to see how gracefully, subtly, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who talks to us of _myth_, of the realization, more or less instinctive or philosophical, of the human conscience reflecting itself in a being who only supplied the pretext and who hardly existed. What! do you not feel the reality, the living, vibrating, bleeding, compassionate ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing of this is to be found in the ancient sages and moralists, not in Hesiod, nor in the maxims of Greece any more than in Confucius. It is not in Cicero, nor in Aristotle, nor even in Socrates any more than in the modern Franklin. The principle of inspiration is different, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Conversations with Goethe he has a series of three papers, wherein he deals chiefly with the critic and sage, exhibiting with honest pride Goethe's admiration of some of the chief French writers, and his acknowledgment of what he owed them. To a passage relating to the French tr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Causeries du Lundi," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us cast a look on ourselves, and ask if in our lives, in our hearts, from youth to our latter years, there are none of these boundless distances, these secret abysses, these moral ruins, perhaps, which, for being hidden, are none the less real and profound." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Causeries du Lundi, followed by the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nouveaux Lundis." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Causeries, article" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Grimm, he says:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "When Nature has endowed some one with this vivacity of feeling, with this susceptibility to impression, and that the creative imagination be wanting, this s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of Napoleon, of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But was it not a compact array of the selfish impulses against a weak instinct of justice, backed by a Titan's will, wielding a mighty intellect, that enabled Napoleon to be the disloyal usurper, then the hardened despot...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Such international misinterpretations and exaggerations are instinctive and involuntary. A nation from its being a nation, has a certain one-sidedness. To the Italian (even to one who carries a stiletto) the English practice of boxing is a sheer brutality; while to an Englishman...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nouveaux Lundis," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To love La Fontaine, is almost the same thing as to love Molière; it is, to love nature, the whole of nature, humanity ingenuously depicted, a representation of the grand comedy of a hundred different acts," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Putnam's Magazine," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cromwell and his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Frederick." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he would make the best of these and other tools within reach; or, if his part be to write and not to act, would animate, not dishearten, those who are earnestly doing, and who, by boldly striking at abuses, by steadily striving for more justice, by aiming to lift up the down-tro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Abbot Sampson." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I confess, says Mr. Carlyle," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have no notion of a truly great man that could not be all sorts of men. Could Newton have written the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Past and Present, --" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Genius, Poet! do we know what these words mean? An inspired soul once more vouchsafed us, direct from Nature's own great fire-heart, to see the truth, and speak it and do it. On the same page he thus taunts his coun...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Generally speaking, we should say that Byron's poetry is not true. He refreshes us, not with the divine fountain, but too often with vulgar strong waters, stimulating indeed to the taste, but soon ending in dislike, or even nausea. Are his Harolds and Giaours, we would ask, real...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For Raleighs and Shakespeares we have Beau Brummell and Sheridan Knowles." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The last infirmity of noble mind." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "? Flushed are his volumes with generous pulses, with delicate sympathies. From many a page what cordialities step forth to console and to fortify us; what divine depths we come upon; what sudden vistas of sunshine through tempest-shaken shadows; what bursts of splendor through n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "French Revolution," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sartor Resartus, wherein, under the head of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Characteristics," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Under a like difficulty, in spite even of our personal intercourse, do we still lie with regard to the professor's moral feeling. Gleams of an ethereal love burst forth from him, soft wailings of infinite pity; he could clasp the whole universe into his bosom, and keep it warm; ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Language is often called an instrument of thought, but it is also the nutriment of thought; or, rather, it is the atmosphere on which thought lives--a medium essential to the activity of our speculative powers, although invisible and imperceptible in its operation; and an elemen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Prelude, p. 70) which, by a change of the first _as_ into _so_, would gain not only in sound (which is not our affair at present), but, likewise in grammar. The seventh line of the twenty-first stanza in that most tender of elegies and most beautiful of poems, Shelley's" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, _another_, the prefix _an_ making it singular,--embraces but one ground or cause, and therefore, contrary to the purpose of the writer, the words mean that there are but two grounds or causes. Write" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The concert will _come off_ on Wednesday. This vulgarism should never be heard beyond the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I consider him an honest man," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you consider the dispute settled? will ever be bad English, however ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you contemplate going to Washington to-morrow?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No: I contemplate moving into the country. This is more than exaggeration and inflation: it is desecration of a noble word, born of man's higher being; for contemplation is an exercise o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "England in glorious magnification." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The amount of my _engagedness_ sounds as well and is as proper as" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Essays," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I left at ten o'clock. This use of _leave_ as a neuter verb, however attractive from its brevity, is not defensible. _To leave off_ is the only proper neuter form." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We left off at six, and left (the hall) at a quarter past six." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In our midst" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marble Faun occurs the following sentence;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The author _proposed_ to himself merely to write a fanciful story, evolving a thoughtful moral, and did not _purpose_ attempting a portraiture of Italian manners and character" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now abideth faith, hope, and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Nor can the greatest do the work of the others any more than faith that of hope or charity. Each one of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is different from and independent of th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you see the impropriety of it? To _make_ money is to _coin_ it: you should say _get_ money. Johnson, adds Boswell," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Merry Wives of Windsor --the only one not written chiefly or largely in verse--is a Shakespearean farce. Of the tragedies (except the series of the ten historical ones) only two," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lear and" }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tartuffe" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Robbers," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Intrigue and Love, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wallenstein." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Iphigenia," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Egmont," }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This has a high value and interest; but still I find not here enough to justify the expectations entertained by this people, and by many in Europe, of the future greatness of the American Republic. These things, significant as they are, are yet not an alphabet that can be so com...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A low origin this for such a society, and the fruits will be without flavor. Art will not submit to be so lowered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What did you do then?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, sir. May I ask a question, sir?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come unto Me; I will give you rest." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Christian Faith in the Light of Modern Knowledge, have now been revised with the addition of new matter. They were written in the conviction that what Christianity has most to fear is ignorance an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Double Gospel" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can we still be Christians?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is vital in Christianity?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "principles 168 1. The Virgin Birth and its alleged parallels 169 2. The worship of Christ and the worship of the Emperor: origin of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kyrios" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Secondary elements" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "at Jerusalem is the theme of conversation in the Transfiguration scene (ix. 31). Even Mark, showing least of all, it used to be said, the influence of later theological reflection, has been called a history of the Passion with an introduction. As Harnack has said:" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lamb of God in the mouth of the Baptist (i. 29, 36), and uses the expression," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(I John i. 7), he never, except possibly in a veiled way, places the language of sacrifice in the mouth of Jesus Himself. There is no reason to doubt that the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou art (this is) my beloved Son (i. 11; ix. 7); and in the closing scene the centurion exclaims," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Truly this man was the Son of God (or a son of God, Mark xv. 39). The climax of the narrative is said to be the confession of Peter," }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was Wissen Wir von Jesus?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kyrios Christos," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Von Reimarus zu Wrede, p. 336; E. T.," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quest of the Historical Jesus," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As Schweitzer, following Kalthoff, suggests with some irony, there was, under this supposition," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Von Reimarus zu Wrede, p. 312; E. T.," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quest, etc.," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Certain from James (Gal. ii. 12), in the bitter polemic over circumcision, never accused Paul, as they would have done if his views were different in this respect, of a declension from Jewish monotheism. Paul doubtless used the name current in Jerusalem when he spoke, in a conte...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Die Anfänge unserer Religion, 2d ed., 1904, p. 177. He says that Paul makes of Jesus" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aus Wissenschaft und Leben, II, p. 217. He adds that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "resurrection, as some interpreters think that his language in I Cor. xv. 50 implies, the emphasis upon the supernatural would be greater in the case of the primitive church. In his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Chris...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Gospel, as Jesus proclaimed it, has to do with the Father only and not with the Son." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Das Wesen des Christentums, 1900, p. 91; E. T.," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is Christianity?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Admittedly his doctrine is used to enforce and to inspire his ethics. A high Christology--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Christ also pleased not himself" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He taught them as one having authority" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say unto you" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; Luke vi. 22," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? These words, says Eucken, have given the soul a history. In the startling paradox in the context," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He that saveth his life shall lose it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whom say ye that I am?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whosoever would become great among you, is connected with Himself as the example of true greatness. He, the teacher and example of humility, refers to Himself as the supreme illustration of true greatness. His death is the supreme expression of self-sacrifice for the good of oth...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All things were delivered unto Me, etc.," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[14] and he believes that the aorist verb" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Commentary on St. Luke," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Commentary on St. Matthew," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Die Selbstoffenbarung Jesu bei Mat 11, 27 (Luc 10, 22), 1912, (" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Freiburger Theologische Studien," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Essence of Christianity, Harnack takes the text as it stands, but, ignoring the implications o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kyrios Christos," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God (John xix. 7). We may believe that the result would have been different if for one moment He had disclaimed divine prerogatives, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kyrios Christos," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "of the great passage in Matthew and Luke, as to its essential content, is thus made out only by a thoroughgoing process of elimination running through the whole story of the Gospels. Every page of the Gospels testifies,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gibt es ein doppeltes Evangelium in N. T.?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come unto me, between sternness and tenderness. When Socrates was told by the oracle that he was the wisest of men, he was in perplexity for a time, but finally decided that he was wise because...