The Seasons of Life; with an Introduction on the Creation, and Primeval State of ManSimpkin, Marshall&Company, 1839 - 309 pages |
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... attention to it , not merely as a shadow that has passed away , or as a vision dimly seen through the mist of count- less ages , but as a work of ineffable grandeur , mystery , and beauty , calculated at all times to awaken in every ...
... attention to it , not merely as a shadow that has passed away , or as a vision dimly seen through the mist of count- less ages , but as a work of ineffable grandeur , mystery , and beauty , calculated at all times to awaken in every ...
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... attention . Throughout the holy Scriptures , indeed , there is an admirable and striking harmony ; they are one professed and con- tinued illustration of Infinite Power and Benefi- cence ; and , guided by their light , we are enabled ...
... attention . Throughout the holy Scriptures , indeed , there is an admirable and striking harmony ; they are one professed and con- tinued illustration of Infinite Power and Benefi- cence ; and , guided by their light , we are enabled ...
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... attention is next directed to inspect the * The firmament is the visible canopy above the earth , over which God is said to have established his throne ; it distin- guishes the waters in the air from the waters in the earth , a ...
... attention is next directed to inspect the * The firmament is the visible canopy above the earth , over which God is said to have established his throne ; it distin- guishes the waters in the air from the waters in the earth , a ...
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... attention as inculcating mild submission and obe- dience . Even the most humble and patient of the brute creation has been made the favoured and chosen instrument of Almighty power . The ass of Balaam was suddenly endowed with speech ...
... attention as inculcating mild submission and obe- dience . Even the most humble and patient of the brute creation has been made the favoured and chosen instrument of Almighty power . The ass of Balaam was suddenly endowed with speech ...
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... attention of the happy pair ; yet so weak were their temptations to disobedience , and so powerful their incentives to walk in the path of duty , that all the arts and persuasions of the Tempter were put in requisition when he in ...
... attention of the happy pair ; yet so weak were their temptations to disobedience , and so powerful their incentives to walk in the path of duty , that all the arts and persuasions of the Tempter were put in requisition when he in ...
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Page 150 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, . Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 238 - I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain ; And plain in manner. Decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture. Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 151 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less Of all that flattered, followed, sought and sued ; This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!
Page 26 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 91 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 266 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; It becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Page 266 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 54 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 217 - From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 8 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled : at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.