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... deceiving delusions ! I love to walk in the gloomy cloister , and to muse on the Gothic pile ; for it tells me what a frail worm I am . The bald - headed monks , and mitred abbots , where are they ? and where shall I shortly be ? The ...
... deceiving delusions ! I love to walk in the gloomy cloister , and to muse on the Gothic pile ; for it tells me what a frail worm I am . The bald - headed monks , and mitred abbots , where are they ? and where shall I shortly be ? The ...
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... ! When I got there , the sound was in a quite different direction . Still I followed the sound , and still was I deceived . Now it was behind , and then before me ; now to 48 THE CORNCRAKE . the right hand , and then The Corncrake.
... ! When I got there , the sound was in a quite different direction . Still I followed the sound , and still was I deceived . Now it was behind , and then before me ; now to 48 THE CORNCRAKE . the right hand , and then The Corncrake.
Page 48
... the world ye shall be hap- py , " but , " In the world ye shall have tribula- tion . " It will be wise , then , to let the corncrake- happiness of the world deceive us no longer , THE CORNCRAKE . 49 whether we hear it afar off.
... the world ye shall be hap- py , " but , " In the world ye shall have tribula- tion . " It will be wise , then , to let the corncrake- happiness of the world deceive us no longer , THE CORNCRAKE . 49 whether we hear it afar off.
Page 93
... deceived by the saying , my country friends , for the word of the Eternal is gone forth : " The days of our years are three- score years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years , yet is their strength labour and ...
... deceived by the saying , my country friends , for the word of the Eternal is gone forth : " The days of our years are three- score years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years , yet is their strength labour and ...
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... How vainly does the hypocrite persuade himself that he is not known ! Dissemble as much as he will , deceive as successfully as he may , there is still a shade of difference between him and those 106 THE SMUT IN THE CORN . he counterfeits ,
... How vainly does the hypocrite persuade himself that he is not known ! Dissemble as much as he will , deceive as successfully as he may , there is still a shade of difference between him and those 106 THE SMUT IN THE CORN . he counterfeits ,
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Page 2 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Page 109 - As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Page 237 - Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith ; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Page 94 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 58 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 224 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Page 50 - OsING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 271 - Being, who is infinitely more than an adequate object of all those affections : whom we are commanded to love with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind.
Page 17 - Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Page 18 - Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion ; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.