EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY AND OTHER MANUSCRIPTS OF THE LATE FREDERIC JAMES POST, OF ISLINGSTON. |
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... points . Religion dwelt more in his heart than on his tongue , and he was never forward in ex- pressing to any one that religious experience which he so strikingly manifested by his pen in his private retirement . The uniform tenor of ...
... points . Religion dwelt more in his heart than on his tongue , and he was never forward in ex- pressing to any one that religious experience which he so strikingly manifested by his pen in his private retirement . The uniform tenor of ...
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... be able to place and point out each county , by name , from a recollection of its form and colour : he became , in a short time , so ready at this amusement , that he could tell every county in the map , as it lay on the MEMOIR . 5.
... be able to place and point out each county , by name , from a recollection of its form and colour : he became , in a short time , so ready at this amusement , that he could tell every county in the map , as it lay on the MEMOIR . 5.
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... points of brass wires , previously turned up at one end , each wire being of a relative proportionate length ; the attendant satellites were likewise shewn by smaller balls ; the other ends of the wires he at- tached to a pillar of wood ...
... points of brass wires , previously turned up at one end , each wire being of a relative proportionate length ; the attendant satellites were likewise shewn by smaller balls ; the other ends of the wires he at- tached to a pillar of wood ...
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... points of doctrine for himself , and testing their accuracy by the Scriptures ; thence forming his own views , which he would sometimes support with considerable weight of argument . He read whatever regarded biblical literature with ...
... points of doctrine for himself , and testing their accuracy by the Scriptures ; thence forming his own views , which he would sometimes support with considerable weight of argument . He read whatever regarded biblical literature with ...
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... point upon which to centre his hopes ; his creed teaches no eternity ; yet that principle , im- planted in every soul - that inherent proof of its own immortality - proclaims loudly that there is , and must be , an hereafter : the mind ...
... point upon which to centre his hopes ; his creed teaches no eternity ; yet that principle , im- planted in every soul - that inherent proof of its own immortality - proclaims loudly that there is , and must be , an hereafter : the mind ...
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Extracts From The Diary And Other Manuscripts Of The Late Frederic James ... Frederic James Post,Jacob Post No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 222 - And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock ; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
Page 443 - Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have decayed ; When...
Page 185 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 221 - And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
Page 143 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, That God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Page 443 - Unfading HOPE! when life's last embers burn, When soul to soul, and dust to dust return ! Heaven to thy charge resigns the awful hour! Oh! then, thy kingdom comes! Immortal Power! What though each spark of earth-born rapture fly The quivering lip, pale cheek, and closing eye! Bright to the soul thy seraph hands convey The morning dream of life's eternal day— Then, then, the triumph and the trance begin, And all the phoenix spirit burns within!
Page 159 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire...
Page 186 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 449 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set -but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 441 - Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas; Atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari!