For no one purchases or redeems what never ceased to belong to him.
Further, whoever buys or redeems an object pays the price to the holder.
One feature remains to be spoken of, a feature which redeems the play from an otherwise deserved obscurity.
The Jew of Malta repeats the fundamental failure of Doctor Faustus, but partially redeems it by avoiding its errors of construction.
For my own purposes, however, I am content to accept the definition of matter formulated by Duns Scotus, which takes over the earlier definition of Plotinus, purges it of its elements of pagan error, and redeems it by Christian insight.
Yet it to a great extent redeems this by the vivid way in which it makes the subject alive, and turns Herodotus and Thucydides, Demosthenes and Xenophon, from dead texts and school-books into theses of eager and stimulating interest.
But praise or blame, argue or paralogise as he may, the golden beauty of his form redeems his matter in the eyes of all but those who are unhappy enough not to see it.
Well might Campbell say of her, that "she redeems nobility by reverting to nature.
And this spirit of God, which thus redeems from the pollutions of the world, and puts a new heart as it were into man, is considered by the Quakers as so powerful in its operations, as to be able to lead him to perfection.
He redeems us from the captivity of sin, and earth, and hell.
He hath out-villained villany so far, that the rarity redeems him.
He redeems us, only as his human example of faithfulness to truth and duty has a powerful influence upon our moral improvement.
Lyman Abbott says that Jesus' blood purchases our pardon and redeems us to God, just as a patriot's blood redeems his country from servitude and purchases its liberty.
In his own person he redeems this nature by bearing its penalty.
For his own sake, and not because of our misery or our prayers, he redeems and exalts us.
Christ gives himself as a prisoner that his disciples may go free, even as he redeems us from the curse of the law by being made a curse for us (Gal.
Where Spain was once synonymous with crime, Where Cortes' and Pizarro's banner flew, The infant world redeems her name of "New.
Thou shouldst for such a thought, but shalt not: he Who can, redeems thee.
It is after all that inner union which is the real thing; which gives all its joys to intercourse, and penetrating down into the world of sense, redeems that world into a thing of glory and beauty.
Christ redeems us from this captivity, and pays our ransom.
If Jesus is truly a man, he redeems and exalts humanity.
Enjoys his ease, nor cares how he redeems The gorgeous promise of his peacock dreams.
Ennius, the stout and wise, in critic phrase The analogue of Homer in these days, Enjoys his ease, nor cares how he redeems The gorgeous promise of his peacock dreams.
From the worship of instrumentalities, whether penitential or worldly, the cross redeems us: in draining the cup of suffering it transcends suffering, and in being raised above the earth it lifts us out of it.
The pose, at that angle, redeems the folly, and the facade the building.
The last verse redeems it, though, to some extent.
Cavalier-buds, whom Nature teems As a reserve for England's throne, Spirits whose double edge redeems The last Age and adorns your own, What are you now the Prince is gone?
If, on the other hand, the teaching be suitable to help the unintelligent, it is intolerably crude and jejune to the philosopher, while that which redeems the criminal is utterly useless to the saint.
The Lord not only saves us from spiritual death, but He redeems us for ever that death can never touch us.
He not only saves us, but He redeems us--that is, buys us back.
Orpheus, by the power of his art, redeems his wife from Hades.
The representation of God in His exaltation and gory has a tone of impressive piety which redeems Bildad from any suspicion of insolence at this point.
And that is the great truth which underlies and half redeems the rashness of this vow, and needs to be laid upon our hearts, if we are ever to be the true followers of the Master.
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