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... death in the most extravagant attempts to wrestle with time and space ; and when he has spent all his substance in these excesses , and dies an outcast and a beggar , he is said to have been a hearty fellow , and to have ' made good for ...
... death in the most extravagant attempts to wrestle with time and space ; and when he has spent all his substance in these excesses , and dies an outcast and a beggar , he is said to have been a hearty fellow , and to have ' made good for ...
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... death . Benjamin Stillingfleet . NOTHING is more unpleasing than to find that offence has been received when none was intended , and that pain has been given to those who were not guilty of any provocation . As the great end of society ...
... death . Benjamin Stillingfleet . NOTHING is more unpleasing than to find that offence has been received when none was intended , and that pain has been given to those who were not guilty of any provocation . As the great end of society ...
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... death made him weep like a child . Those names which he never before pronounced , but in ridicule , he now called ... Death darkens his eye , and unplumes his wings , Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings . Live so , my love , that ...
... death made him weep like a child . Those names which he never before pronounced , but in ridicule , he now called ... Death darkens his eye , and unplumes his wings , Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings . Live so , my love , that ...
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... Death - struck , I ceased the tide to stem ; When suddenly a star arose , It was the star of Bethlehem . 5 It was my guide , my light , my all , It bade my dark foreboding cease ; And through the storm and danger's thrall , It led me to ...
... Death - struck , I ceased the tide to stem ; When suddenly a star arose , It was the star of Bethlehem . 5 It was my guide , my light , my all , It bade my dark foreboding cease ; And through the storm and danger's thrall , It led me to ...
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... death seemed inevitable , the Colonel sat down , and wrote a short narrative of what had occurred , and the probability that existed of any person being saved . This paper was put into a bottle , and while he was in the act of cork- ing ...
... death seemed inevitable , the Colonel sat down , and wrote a short narrative of what had occurred , and the probability that existed of any person being saved . This paper was put into a bottle , and while he was in the act of cork- ing ...
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Popular passages
Page 79 - And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
Page 212 - Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2.
Page 164 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 168 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom : a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Page 260 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 48 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Page 39 - The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Page 240 - 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 87 - And when it was day, they knew not the land : but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
Page 130 - ROCK of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee ! Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.