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Page vi
... hand upon the burning coals , because it had mistaken its victim , and slain but a courtier , when it aimed at a king ; or , like Decius Mus , to have rushed , a self - devoted sacrifice , into the heart of the enemy's array , to secure ...
... hand upon the burning coals , because it had mistaken its victim , and slain but a courtier , when it aimed at a king ; or , like Decius Mus , to have rushed , a self - devoted sacrifice , into the heart of the enemy's array , to secure ...
Page vii
... hands that wrought the sculptures of the Parthenon ; the forgotten archi- tects of Gothic Cathedrals ; and the builders of the Pyramids , equally forgotten ; -these , though unre- gistered here , have yet a being in that invisible world ...
... hands that wrought the sculptures of the Parthenon ; the forgotten archi- tects of Gothic Cathedrals ; and the builders of the Pyramids , equally forgotten ; -these , though unre- gistered here , have yet a being in that invisible world ...
Page xxiv
... hand of mercy to draw her up to heaven . There is a refined and elevated sympathy awakened towards the dead , whom ... hands it may come , and to whose hearts it may speak in that pure and beautiful language which the spirit of the ...
... hand of mercy to draw her up to heaven . There is a refined and elevated sympathy awakened towards the dead , whom ... hands it may come , and to whose hearts it may speak in that pure and beautiful language which the spirit of the ...
Page xxvi
... human life . Whose heart has not palpitated ? whose hand has not trembled , as if it felt a feebler pulse at turning over leaf after leaf ? and whose eye has not keenly , eagerly , yet afraid and revoltingly , glanced on to xxvi.
... human life . Whose heart has not palpitated ? whose hand has not trembled , as if it felt a feebler pulse at turning over leaf after leaf ? and whose eye has not keenly , eagerly , yet afraid and revoltingly , glanced on to xxvi.
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... hand that is penning this paragraph on the 5th of June , 1828 , belongs to a human being , in health and strength , who yet knows not that he shall live to finish it . Eyes which have never looked on him will assuredly read what he is ...
... hand that is penning this paragraph on the 5th of June , 1828 , belongs to a human being , in health and strength , who yet knows not that he shall live to finish it . Eyes which have never looked on him will assuredly read what he is ...
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Page 59 - Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ...
Page 130 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, — Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
Page 340 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 306 - Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Page 237 - My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him : For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Page 336 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments ; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Page 210 - Seeing then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 249 - And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Page 159 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 159 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.