Roll of a tennis ball, through the moral world, a ser. of contemplations, by a solitary traveller [J. Stewart].1812 |
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... constitution , and those imperfections of my life , which have incurred his judgments ; yet the proofs of his good- ness , which notwithstanding all these , had early enlisted my heart in the service of virtue , and , the dictates of ...
... constitution , and those imperfections of my life , which have incurred his judgments ; yet the proofs of his good- ness , which notwithstanding all these , had early enlisted my heart in the service of virtue , and , the dictates of ...
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... constitution and under- standing , independent fortune and general approbation , quit the field of religious labour in which they had been useful ; and have returned , wholly returned to their farms and their mer- chandize these were ...
... constitution and under- standing , independent fortune and general approbation , quit the field of religious labour in which they had been useful ; and have returned , wholly returned to their farms and their mer- chandize these were ...
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... constitution , our lots in life have been extremely similar - he is now dead and gone ; and if happy , is beyond the breath of calumny → if upright , he is where his character cannot be mistaken , a fact that is often reversed on this ...
... constitution , our lots in life have been extremely similar - he is now dead and gone ; and if happy , is beyond the breath of calumny → if upright , he is where his character cannot be mistaken , a fact that is often reversed on this ...
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... constitutional disorder of the passions- these with regard to their individual and social effects , are temporary - they will cease with the temptation which gave them birth , or with the particular complaint which produced them ; and ...
... constitutional disorder of the passions- these with regard to their individual and social effects , are temporary - they will cease with the temptation which gave them birth , or with the particular complaint which produced them ; and ...
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... constitutional prin- ciples , and many men devoted to the God who made them ; has on these accounts no doubt , been an object of divine protection , in the midst of those convulsions , which have long agitated Europe - How many critical ...
... constitutional prin- ciples , and many men devoted to the God who made them ; has on these accounts no doubt , been an object of divine protection , in the midst of those convulsions , which have long agitated Europe - How many critical ...
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Page 217 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 362 - And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Page 218 - Brethren, be not children in understanding : howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Page 423 - Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Page 390 - Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel ; is not my way equal ? are not your ways unequal...
Page 434 - Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost. And the young men came in, and found her dead, and carrying her forth buried her by her husband. And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
Page 30 - And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Page 390 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 348 - ... tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile ; but glory, honour, and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: for there is no respect of persons with God.
Page 36 - As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.