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... writing religious books , in advocating educational and benevolent enterprises in the secular press , and also in general literary work for various publishers in this city . But his body was not equal to the demands of his spirit , and ...
... writing religious books , in advocating educational and benevolent enterprises in the secular press , and also in general literary work for various publishers in this city . But his body was not equal to the demands of his spirit , and ...
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... Writing , which to many men is a labor , even in the case of some who have had years upon years of experience , to him was rather pleasure than toil . He set about it without reluctance , and finished it without weariness . He did not ...
... Writing , which to many men is a labor , even in the case of some who have had years upon years of experience , to him was rather pleasure than toil . He set about it without reluctance , and finished it without weariness . He did not ...
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... writer to say any- thing he chose within the bounds of good sense and good taste - bounds which he never transgressed ... writing seems very easy to the inexperi- enced , and yet in reality the ability to do it well is a very rare gift ...
... writer to say any- thing he chose within the bounds of good sense and good taste - bounds which he never transgressed ... writing seems very easy to the inexperi- enced , and yet in reality the ability to do it well is a very rare gift ...
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... writing , was born in Milford , Conn . , in the year 1700 , and was graduated at Yale College in 1718. Pursuing study for the pulpit , he was called to Huntington , across the Sound , where he began his ministry when nineteen years old ...
... writing , was born in Milford , Conn . , in the year 1700 , and was graduated at Yale College in 1718. Pursuing study for the pulpit , he was called to Huntington , across the Sound , where he began his ministry when nineteen years old ...
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... writing and speaking with fluency the modern European languages , and making very comfort- able verse in the ancient tongues . Many examples of his success are around me now . At the outbreak of the Revo- lutionary War he fired the ...
... writing and speaking with fluency the modern European languages , and making very comfort- able verse in the ancient tongues . Many examples of his success are around me now . At the outbreak of the Revo- lutionary War he fired the ...
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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.