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... receive additional strength and lustre from elegance and splendour of diction ; as a beautiful woman ap- pears more lovely when arrayed with neatness and simplicity , than when cloaked to the heels in very rags and tatters . But against ...
... receive additional strength and lustre from elegance and splendour of diction ; as a beautiful woman ap- pears more lovely when arrayed with neatness and simplicity , than when cloaked to the heels in very rags and tatters . But against ...
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... received from our first entrance into the world , to the present period of our existence . What blessings may we not hope from that Being , which has ever watched over us with the tender solicitude of a father ; which , at the hour of ...
... received from our first entrance into the world , to the present period of our existence . What blessings may we not hope from that Being , which has ever watched over us with the tender solicitude of a father ; which , at the hour of ...
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... receive . You have every thing that can contribute to your comfort . Though you cannot penetrate through the veil which overshadows the creation , though the great First Cause of all things be hidden from your view , rest assured , that ...
... receive . You have every thing that can contribute to your comfort . Though you cannot penetrate through the veil which overshadows the creation , though the great First Cause of all things be hidden from your view , rest assured , that ...
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... received from Heaven , for which I am not sufficiently grateful . I feel the obligation I am under to a gracious God ; who , I pray , as he has given me the means , will open my heart to relieve those afflictions in others from which I ...
... received from Heaven , for which I am not sufficiently grateful . I feel the obligation I am under to a gracious God ; who , I pray , as he has given me the means , will open my heart to relieve those afflictions in others from which I ...
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... receives no light from the sun . Here , in perfect secu- rity , whether reposing in our beds , or indulging over the blazing hearth , we defy the rigours of the season ; the charms of society soften its asperities , and the constant ...
... receives no light from the sun . Here , in perfect secu- rity , whether reposing in our beds , or indulging over the blazing hearth , we defy the rigours of the season ; the charms of society soften its asperities , and the constant ...
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Page 314 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Page 82 - 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 81 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 227 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 38 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 82 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 81 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Page 82 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night...
Page 256 - The eyes of all wait upon thee ; And thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, And satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
Page 40 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...