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• The Gospel is the consequence and the manifestation of the love of God, which delights to be known and possessed by loving souls, and being known, changes them into its own likeness, which to know is to be happy, which to resemble is to be pure The first thing that strikes me about this representation of our text is the profound sense of human sinfulness which underlies it The language is utterly unmeaning--or at all events grossly exaggerated--unless all have sinned, and the nature which belongs to men universally, apart from the transforming power of Christ's Spirit, be corrupt and evil. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• This unmeaning little war--unmeaning in the higher sense--was also the last campaign of the illustrious Prince Eugene. —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
• The curate is unmeaning, and abominably slow. —  Molly Bawn
• A foreign question which otherwise would seem vague, unmeaning, and unintelligible comes to be at least interesting and worthy of consideration, if not indeed of study, if you have under your eyes some living man who has been in any important way mixed up in it. —  The Dictator
• He calls their unmeaning verbosity "anemone-words;" for anemonies are flowers, which, however brilliant, only please the eye, leaving no fragrance. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)

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