Dictionary of Anecdote, Incident, Illustrative Fact: Selected and Arranged for the Pulpit and the Platform |
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... turned to the elder and told him that he was very sorry , but that he must defer their business for a while . The elder , due at Jerusalem on the morrow , and impatient to start on his return journey , asked what might be the price of ...
... turned to the elder and told him that he was very sorry , but that he must defer their business for a while . The elder , due at Jerusalem on the morrow , and impatient to start on his return journey , asked what might be the price of ...
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... turned the corner and ran against a boy who was small and ragged and freckled . Stopping as soon as she could , she turned to him and said , " I beg your pardon ; indeed , I am very sorry . " The small ragged and freckled boy looked up ...
... turned the corner and ran against a boy who was small and ragged and freckled . Stopping as soon as she could , she turned to him and said , " I beg your pardon ; indeed , I am very sorry . " The small ragged and freckled boy looked up ...
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... turned sour , and tasted quite flat . The next time the Princess met the Rabbi Joshua she ex- pressed her astonishment at his having given her such a strange piece of advice , and said , “ Do you know , Rabbi , that all that fine wine ...
... turned sour , and tasted quite flat . The next time the Princess met the Rabbi Joshua she ex- pressed her astonishment at his having given her such a strange piece of advice , and said , “ Do you know , Rabbi , that all that fine wine ...
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... turned to the mathematician and asked him whether the performance was not exquisite , the man of figures replied that it was indeed a wonderful performance ; the violinist had drawn his elbow up and down 2900 times ! -Dr . Green . 269 ...
... turned to the mathematician and asked him whether the performance was not exquisite , the man of figures replied that it was indeed a wonderful performance ; the violinist had drawn his elbow up and down 2900 times ! -Dr . Green . 269 ...
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... turned on the subject of preaching , when one of the party said preaching without notes was the hardest work in the world . Mr. Fuller said it was easy enough if they went to work in the right way . " Now , " he said , " if I was to ...
... turned on the subject of preaching , when one of the party said preaching without notes was the hardest work in the world . Mr. Fuller said it was easy enough if they went to work in the right way . " Now , " he said , " if I was to ...
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Popular passages
Page 343 - Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain : yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
Page 351 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 349 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and,...
Page 7 - O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord...
Page 260 - The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way : but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Page 58 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 47 - Not that I speak in respect of want ; for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound : everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 306 - JUST as I am, without one plea. But that thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bid'st me come to thee, O Lamb of God ! I come...
Page 70 - Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee ; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 357 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.