The Infirmary; Or Sketches of Practical Benevolence. A Poem, EtcG.B. Whittaker ... W. Joy ... J. Nisbet ... J. Webb and C.B. Merry ... Dicey and Smithson, 1828 - English poetry - 112 pages |
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... asks and circumstance allows . Whilst sable Night , rising in all her clouds , That shuts th ' unfeeling man within himself As in a conscious dungeon , draws HIM out To higher holier thoughts . He sees around Ten thousand rolling worlds ...
... asks and circumstance allows . Whilst sable Night , rising in all her clouds , That shuts th ' unfeeling man within himself As in a conscious dungeon , draws HIM out To higher holier thoughts . He sees around Ten thousand rolling worlds ...
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... asks , With wise regard to inward conscious thought , What is the interest , what the great concern , Th ' immortal hope of Man ? βHe so unlike His fellow - beings that surround his path ; Whose every faculty fulfils its use And drops ...
... asks , With wise regard to inward conscious thought , What is the interest , what the great concern , Th ' immortal hope of Man ? βHe so unlike His fellow - beings that surround his path ; Whose every faculty fulfils its use And drops ...
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... ask it from the skies ? ' Tis there alone The book of Wisdom opens ; and from Him Who brought it down to man , her heavenly words Were thus divinely breath'd.- " Bless'd is the man Whom sweet benevolence and mercy draw To deeds of ...
... ask it from the skies ? ' Tis there alone The book of Wisdom opens ; and from Him Who brought it down to man , her heavenly words Were thus divinely breath'd.- " Bless'd is the man Whom sweet benevolence and mercy draw To deeds of ...
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... ask for mercy to himself , Who once refus'd to others . Listen then Ye selfish beings , harden'd in your blind Regard for cursed gold ! repent before That dreadful day of reckoning shall come To render an account of all the blessings ...
... ask for mercy to himself , Who once refus'd to others . Listen then Ye selfish beings , harden'd in your blind Regard for cursed gold ! repent before That dreadful day of reckoning shall come To render an account of all the blessings ...
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... ask of thee " -he meets with one , His fellow servant , who , alas , to him Owes a few paltry pence . Forgetful now Of all the goodness he so late receiv'd , He takes him by the throat , and thunders out " Pay instant what thou owest ...
... ask of thee " -he meets with one , His fellow servant , who , alas , to him Owes a few paltry pence . Forgetful now Of all the goodness he so late receiv'd , He takes him by the throat , and thunders out " Pay instant what thou owest ...
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Page 2 - For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.β
Page 2 - Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep-market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.β