Irenæus Letters: Second SeriesNew York Observer, 1885 - 388 pages |
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Page 15
... human life . Dr. Prime was well named " Irenæus . " His life was an irenicon . He hated war . He loved peace , and studied peace , and advocated peace in church and state and family . Yet there was nothing weak or compromising in his ...
... human life . Dr. Prime was well named " Irenæus . " His life was an irenicon . He hated war . He loved peace , and studied peace , and advocated peace in church and state and family . Yet there was nothing weak or compromising in his ...
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... human misery . They are no more kind to their fellow - men than they are loving toward God . What would this country ... humanity that helps is divine . So the man Christ Jesus was the God - man ; and in Him who took our nature was the ...
... human misery . They are no more kind to their fellow - men than they are loving toward God . What would this country ... humanity that helps is divine . So the man Christ Jesus was the God - man ; and in Him who took our nature was the ...
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... human beings . Some of the colored brethren had installed themselves in the gallery , but the ladies soon routed them out , and the organ was surrounded by a perfect bouquet of beauty . Since the day of Gen. John C. Breckinridge's fu ...
... human beings . Some of the colored brethren had installed themselves in the gallery , but the ladies soon routed them out , and the organ was surrounded by a perfect bouquet of beauty . Since the day of Gen. John C. Breckinridge's fu ...
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... human reason , that the nations of the earth may contem- plate with advantage ? The dispute between Russia and England is not so hard to compose as was ours with Great Britain in 1846. It is now nearly forty years since that war- cloud ...
... human reason , that the nations of the earth may contem- plate with advantage ? The dispute between Russia and England is not so hard to compose as was ours with Great Britain in 1846. It is now nearly forty years since that war- cloud ...
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... the secret history of one of the most remarkable in- terventions of Providence in human affairs ever recorded outside of sacred history . The establishment of Robert College , on the Bosphorus , THE ADMIRAL AND THE TURK . 71.
... the secret history of one of the most remarkable in- terventions of Providence in human affairs ever recorded outside of sacred history . The establishment of Robert College , on the Bosphorus , THE ADMIRAL AND THE TURK . 71.
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Page 193 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 214 - O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
Page 145 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 82 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 27 - My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the Earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies.
Page 214 - Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Page 84 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Page 305 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end...
Page 185 - Thou dost conduct thy people Through torrents of temptation : Nor will we fear, While thou art near, The fire of tribulation : The world, with sin and Satan, In vain our march opposes ; By thee we shall Break through them all, And sing the song of Moses.
Page 66 - I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.