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Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 30 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Page 388 - Dark and cheerless is the morn, Unaccompanied by thee ; Joyless is the day's return Till thy mercy's beams I see, Till they inward light impart, Glad my eyes and warm my heart.
Page 65 - ... what shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed...
Page 30 - The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Page 30 - I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Page 177 - Paint us an angel, if you can, with a floating violet robe, and a face paled by the celestial light; paint us yet oftener a Madonna, turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules which shall banish from the region of Art those old women scraping carrots with their work-worn hands, those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pot-house, those rounded backs and stupid weather-beaten faces that have bent over the spade and...
Page 484 - Let us rather be thankful that our sorrow lives in us as an indestructible force, only changing its form, as forces do, and passing from pain into sympathy — the one poor word which includes all our best insight and our best love.
Page 1 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice.
Page xviii - We have one great novelist who is gifted with the utmost power of rendering the external traits of our town population; and if he could give us their psychological character — their conceptions of life, and their emotions — with the same truth as their idiom and manners, his books would be the greatest contribution Art has ever made to the awakening of social sympathies.
Page 487 - ETERNAL BEAM OF LIGHT DIVINE ETERNAL Beam of Light divine, Fountain of unexhausted love, In whom the Father's glories shine, • Through earth beneath and heaven above; Jesus, the weary wanderer's rest. Give me thy easy yoke to bear; With steadfast patience arm my breast, With spotless love and lowly fear.